Small forms of farming in the countryside provide about 60% of the gross production of domestic agricultural products. World experience convinces that during the period of negative economic and social trends in social development, the unification of joint efforts of people always gave the first impetus in the given direction. Lack of real social guarantees and economic support of the state, lack of own financial resources cause low efficiency of organic agricultural production. An additional complication, which is quite often not realized even by the farmers themselves, is the constant decrease in the yield of agricultural crops due to soil depletion. The mechanism of cooperation is an effective element in the process of reproducing the potential of peasant farms. The current market trends, namely the increased demand for organic agricultural products, it is logical to assume that the creation of cooperatives that would specialize in the procurement and sale of organic products can become an active factor in rural development. The influence of the basic principles and advantages of the development cooperative movement on the development of organic agricultural production is investigated. Cooperative principles are a condition for harmonizing the interests of the participants of the cooperation and determine the general direction of development of the cooperative movement. Features of the domestic market of organic products were considered. The state and trends of organic cooperatives development in Ukraine are analyzed. Practical approaches to improvement of the directions of achievement of effect with the cooperation of commodity producers of organic products are offered. The problems of development of cooperation in Ukraine with consideration of theoretical and practical aspects of management, distribution of cluster type of production of organic products are outlined. The purpose of the article - is to study the importance of the main principles and advantages of the development of the cooperative movement in the development of organic agricultural production. One of the main reasons for the formation of a cooperative association of farmers is strengthening the positions of its members on the market, creating competitive advantages of their products.