Agriculture plays a crucial role in the development of the Indian economy. It accounts for about 19 percent of GDP and about two thirds of the population is dependent on the sector. (Economic Survey, 2009). Recognizing the importance of agriculture sector in India’s development, the Government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have played a vital role in creating a broad-based institutional f...

fishing as one of the most important agricultural sectors has an important role in providing the protein for people. pareh cooperatives despite of having a long history, are faced with problems such as loss of fishing catch compare with previous years, the high cost of purchasing tools and equipments to catch and transportation and location of fishing become unfavorable due to natural and human...

a strength of agricultural production cooperatives is improving the technical knowledge of their members which is along with their function in large-scale development. one of the main obstacles to the success of cooperatives is their inability in improving the technical knowledge of their members. the current study evaluates the role of production cooperatives of fars province, iranin improving...

This paper aims at positioning producer cooperatives within the Transaction Cost Economics theory, one of the most cited and prolific theories on management studies. To accomplish this goal, I will answer the questions what is a cooperative, which transactions producer cooperatives regulate, under which market conditions they operate, and where are the boundaries for such organizations. This pa...

Agricultural cooperatives have the main goals of meeting economic, social and cultural needs their members. Although they do not seek profits, must be competitive since compete with other companies in market. In this sense, search for technical efficiency to give a better market position contrasts difficulty these organizations face obtaining foreign capital enable greater investments. There is...

The growing demand for high-value food commodities is opening up opportunities for farmers, especially smallholders to diversify towards commodities that have strong potential for higher returns to land, labour and capital. However, there is an apprehension about the capability of smallholder farmers to participate in the market-oriented production due to their lack of access to markets, capita...

The general purpose underlying this study is to investigate the factors involved in the success of poultry growers' cooperatives in the provinces of Western Azarbayjan, Ilam, Hamedan, Khuzistan and Kohgilouyeh and Boweir Ahmad. Using the cluster sampling method and the Cochran’s formula, 21 cooperatives and their members and mangers were selected from among 21 cooperatives with 1305 members. St...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital (IC), which represented by structural (SC), relational [RC], and human (HC), member participation (MP) performance within context agricultural cooperatives. This employs a survey technique involving 104 palm oil smallholders’ cooperatives in Peninsular Malaysia, data are analyzed through partial least squa...