Ambo Farmers Cooperative Union

Ambo Farmers’ Cooperative Union (AFCU) was the most promising/potential Cooperative in Oromia National Regional State and established on December 1998 by having five primary Cooperatives with a total of 1,975 member individual farmers out of which 6 % or 123 are females in Ambo District of West S1hoa Zone located at 115KM west of the capital city of Ethiopia Addis Ababa to the west (Wellega road). Currently the Union is operating in 18 districts of West Shoa Zone having 256 member agricultural primary Cooperatives with 92,895 male and 11,179 female individual members which will be totaled as 104,074.