It is difficult to make a place among the big leading, companies, even when, their -.activity concerns such an expanding industry , as fruit. and, Vegetable, canning. The first big farmer's cooperative has been created recently, in California. What are its chances of survival? Will it diversify its activities and its establishments? Will it develop the k.ey activity, research, to the same degree as the giant companies of the private sector ? In one word, can the farmers, who are tied to their land, hope to make a place among the leading vertically integrated firms, which extend their own activity through cooperatives ?
