The Minister of Social Affairs, Abdulmohsin bin Abdulaziz Al-A'kkas, has thanked the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd bin Abdulaziz, the Crown Prince and the Second Deputy Premier for issuing a decision to support the cooperative associations working in the agricultural and fishery fields, to enable them to carry out their tasks and activate their role in the field of marketing.
He pointed out that there were 46 cooperative associations working in the agricultural and fishery fields and nearly 14,082 members of these associations would benefit from this decision.
In total, there are 153 cooperative associations, including 40,677 members. They have a capital of SR 155,325,000, SR 256,500,000 in reserves, transactions worth SR 362,416,000 and SR 469,902,000 in assets, the Minister said.
