HFrom coverage on nine municipalities, Carmen Samahang Nayon Multi Purpose Cooperative recently received a letter from the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA), approving its application to expand its area of coverage to the whole province. Presently, CSNMPC has 1,952 regular members in Carmen and the neighboring towns of Batuan, Sierra-Bullones, Pilar, and Dagohoy. The cooperative caters to honorarium loans, salary loans, providential loans, micro-financing loans, time and savings deposits with reasonable interest rates, and consumers' store.

The coop also extend assistance in trading and marketing of organically-grown rice produced by its farmer-members, through the farmer- based Marketing and Trading Support Project (PROFarmS Market Support Project) funded by Philippines- Australia Community Assistance Program (PACAP). This project has been designed and approved to also support poverty reduction through Organic Farming System Project (PROFarmS)- -another PACAP-funded project implemented in ten organic agriculture–practicing organizations in the municipalities of Alicia, Dagohoy, Sagbayan and San Isidro which focus on Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security.

CSNMPC- -in partnership with different people's organizations, NGOs, and LGUs- -serves as a market consolidator of organically- grown palay produced from these areas and neighboring municipalities. It buys, processes and packages the palay to produce quality organically–grown rice grains that are now regularly sold in different outlets in Carmen and Tagbilaran City labeled as “PROFarmS Organically grown rice” CSNMPC looks forward to serve more Boholanos in the best and socially- responsive ways.