History

Until the foundation of ZEN-NOH

1900	The "Industrial Cooperatives Act" was promulgated.
1947	The "Agricultural Cooperatives Act" was promulgated.
1948	The National Agricultural Association was dissolved; the National Federation of Marketing Divisions of Agricultural Cooperatives for Marketing [Zenhanren] and the National Federation of Purchasing Divisions of Agricultural Cooperatives [Zenkoren] were established

History after the foundation of ZEN-NOH

1972	March	Zenhanren and Zenkoren were merged and ZEN-NOH was founded.
1977	July	4,329 agricultural cooperatives became members of ZEN-NOH.
1992	April	Based on the new concept of corporate identity, "JA" was adopted as the communication name as a replacement for "Nokyo," and the new symbol mark (JA mark) was put into use.
1998	October	Merged with economic federations of agricultural cooperatives in Miyagi, Tottori, and Shimane
2000	April	Merged with economic federations of agricultural cooperatives in Tokyo, Yamaguchi, and Tokushima, and with the National Federation of Sericulture Cooperatives
2001	March	Merged with economic federations of agricultural cooperatives in Aomori, Yamagata, Shonai, Tochigi, Chiba, Yamanashi, Nagano, Niigata, Toyama, Ishikawa, Gifu, Mie, Shiga, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyogo, Okayama, Hiroshima, Kochi, Fukuoka, and Nagasaki
2002	March	30th anniversary of ZEN-NOH
	April	Merged with economic federations of agricultural cooperatives in Iwate, Akita, Ibaraki, Gunma, Saitama, and Oita
	July	The Supervisory Board was established.
2003	April	Merged with economic federations of agricultural cooperatives in Fukushima and Kanagawa
2004	April	Merged with “Ken-Noh Ehime”
2008	April	The Yamagata Prefectural Headquarters and the Shonai Headquarters were combined.
2015	March	Closure of the Shimane Prefectural Headquarters with the start of JA Shimane.
2019	March	Closure of the Yamaguchi Prefectural Headquarters with the start of JA Yamaguchi. Closure of the Kochi Prefectural Headquarters with the start of JA Kochi.