Word: co-op
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...acre farm, the co-op will devote most of the land to production of cash crops-cotton and soybeans-which will provide jobs for black workers and earn incomes to repay the farm's $250,000 total purchase price...
...part of the land will go to other projects. More low-cost houses, for example, might be built on a 100-acre section of the land if the co-op can get the necessary Federal loan...
Plans for the new land also include a "vegetable bank." Co-op farmers would use part of the land to grow vegetables, and would then freeze them for distribution to hungry families throughout the rest of the year...
...Co-op is located in one of the most chronically-depressed regions of the country. Sunflower County, like the rest of the Mississippi Delta, has a heavily-black population, but the black families there live on a median annual income...
...money the co-op needs-from the $46,000 land payment to the $1500 price of a freezer for the vegetable bank-Mrs. Hamer has begun another national search for funds...