During the experimental stage, Comilla type cooperatives showed spectacular success and then gradually faded and faced lot of criticism when this system of cooperative was expanded throughout the country by IRDP (now BRDB). In this note performance of selected BRDB cooperatives in Comilla, Noakhali and Kushtia districts have been measured in respect of some criteria e.g., method of organisation an management, impact of the cooperatives on agricultural production and on socioeconomic condition of members. Results indicate that the overall performance is low and that performance level gradually decreased as the distance of the selected societies increased from Comil