The Maharashtra State Cooperative Marketing Federation (MSCMF) was registered in 1958 as an apex society for agricultural marketing and processing cooperatives. It started functioning in the year 1959 with the main objective of creating an institutional agency for the marketing of agricultural produce and supply of requisite agricultural input to the farmers. Other objectives of the Federation include guiding the working of member societies, assisting them in enlarging their activities, promoting and establishing its own processing and manufacturing units, etc.