Agricultural Cooperative Case Study

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2.9.2.1. Perception
(Woldegebrial Zeweld, April 2010) Why some rural people become members of agricultural cooperatives while others do not? His research study describes currently members Respondents during the focus group discussion said that they became simply members of cooperatives to get fertilizer and they did not expect other benefits from their cooperatives, because at the end of the financial period there was no surplus which is distributed to members. Low price of agricultural fertilizer might be perceived to have positive influence in the level of participation of the members in agricultural marketing by cooperatives. Lack of transparence and Accountability of cooperative leaders and employees is also another implication that affects
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But cooperative and cooperative societies now are rarely available to above points because of different reasons, special skills and education of household head, commitment, confidence and so on. Livestock and farmland resources and household consumer worker ratio are also perceptual explanatory variables that affect rural women to join cooperative …show more content…
It defined as the level of awareness and knowhow of the members towards the principles, values, bylaws and importance of agricultural cooperatives. It plays a great role in cooperative societies by doing things pursuant to the knowledge that is built about cooperatives. Ochan Dorgi (2015) Gambella research conclude the result that majority of the members did not have awareness about cooperative’s principles and values, bylaws, objectives and rights and duties of members and BoD. On the other hand, over 65% of members have no awareness about the functions of their agricultural cooperatives. Therefore, when women lack awareness about the advantage of cooperatives, they will fail to actively participating in cooperative membership. The basic tool for the success of any kind of business is awareness and strong commitment of owners to serve their business honestly. Like other business institutions cooperatives success is determined by its members’ loyalty in their organizations. According to Esubalew (may 2011) observe the history of cooperative movement in Ethiopia there is a big shadow which was observed during the military regime regarding to loyalty. At that time most of the members joined cooperatives without their interest through government enforcement. Due to that most of the members were not benefited from their cooperatives. According to Esubalew (may