This paper reports the results of a survey of attitudes of commercial fanners and supply cooperative managers about agricultural supply cooperatives. Cooperative managers and fann­ ers frequently made significantly different responses to questionnaire statements. With a few exceptions, fann size and fanner age did not appear to influence perceptions about supply cooperatives. "",nether a fanner...

Abstract As one of the countries with largest Muslim population globally, Indonesia is trying to overcome poverty by driving community’s economy through various economic institutions, which sharia cooperatives. But unfortunately, even though majority Indonesian Muslim, cooperatives are less attractive public and have a slow performance compared conventional Various previous studies stated that ...

Substantial numbers of smallholder co-operatives in Africa fail each year due to their inability to be self-sustaining. Liberalization of Mali‘s cereal sector in the 1990s resulted in transition from a cereal deficit to self-sufficiency. However, problems like credit, poor marketing and low prices hindered real development of the sub-sector. In 1997, the FASO JIGI Cooperative marketing project,...

This paper describes different elements leading to the success of cooperatives formed by indigenous Maya women of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. These elements have shown to facilitate the sustainability (permanence over time) of the cooperatives and their presence in the market, while improving the work environment and enhancing the practice of honesty. All these elements have generated an i...

there are more than one million agricultural cooperatives members in iran. in the meantime, the rapid development of the animal husbandry in iran has forced cooperatives to meet the members’ scientific and practical needs for completing production cycle of the dairy industry. livestock production covers a wide spectrum of livestock activities including bee keeping, silkworm raising, and aquacul...

this research was carried out to investigate the role of natural resources cooperatives in ecotourism development. this was an analysis-descriptive study conducted through survey method. statically population of study was 123 members of the directors of these cooperatives. a structured questionnaire was designed and distributed among the cooperative directors. census technique was applied in th...