The Law required existing co-operatives to be transformed into membership-oriented service co-operatives promoting the income of their members rather than as a delivery mechanism for government, otherwise they had to be dissolved. It also provided the option for farmers to establish new agricultural service co-operatives from scratch and broadened the scope of activities that could be undertaken (Wolz and Pham, 2010). Despite these changes, the number of agricultural co-operatives has continued to fall to around 10 400 at the end of 2013.