On March 7, 2017 at the Yokohama Media Business Center, 100 people from co-operative related organizations participated in the inauguration of the Kanagawa Prefecture Cooperative Union Liaison committee.

3 main purposes for the formation are as follows:

1. Promotion of regional agriculture, forestry and fisheries industry aiming at town development that agriculture and cities can coexist.
2. Creation of healthy and affluent life, leading to the promotion of regional welfare network concept and activities that will promote exchanges in the region.
3. 3. Formation of a peaceful and greenery environment aiming at creating a concept to protect the natural environment that will also lead to the response to large-scale disasters and creating countermeasures.

The formation calls for co-operative partnership to make the living in Kanagawa Prefecture suitable for the citizenry, and become a stakeholder to work together with for the achievement of the United Nation’s sustainable development goals, SDGs.