Formerly known as the Tagalog Cooperative Training and Education Center (TAGCOTEC) was born in response to a felt need, at a time when Cooperatives in Luzon were dying as fast as they are born; when enthusiasm for cooperation was so pervading, yet education and training were nowhere to be found.

It was organized by a handful of cooperative leaders in Metro Manila and in various provinces of Southern Tagalog and Central Luzon on July 19, 1975 at the Jesuit Sacred Heart Novitiate in Novaliches, Quezon City and registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 2, 1976.

Moved by the ardent desire of its members to engage in economic conditions. TAGCODEC re-registered with the Bureau of Agricultural Cooperative Dev’t (BACOD) on Nov. 9, 1987 with a new name TAGALOG COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT CENTER (TAGCODEC). It has then become a regional secondary federation operating in the NCR, Region III and Region IV.