The present paper is the product of research on cooperatives in Georgia carried out by Elkana from August to October 2016 in the framework of the AGROinform-led IFAD-funded project “Promoting inclusive horticultural value chains in Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Moldova” The goal of the research is to provide valuable information on horticultural producers' cooperation in Georgia and provide analytical material for supporting elaboration of the policies, recommendations and learning documents. The research consisted of both qualitative and quantitative studies. The data and opinions were collected from a total of 327 respondents (cooperative members, independent farmers, experts, and governmental regulators), 118 of them – from 110 cooperatives. Unlike cooperatives of 90s of the last century, current cooperatives in Georgia are member-managed cooperatives. They started just 2-3 three years ago. Nevertheless, there was already about 1400 cooperatives in Georgia at the time of the research fieldwork, i.e. late summer of 2016. This rapid rise is credited to a number of significant State and non-State cooperative grants and related cooperative assistance programmes. Nevertheless, formation of many cooperatives in terms of commercial viability is still underway.