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Improving Agricultural Production Through Co-operative
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1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. Does co-operative helps to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of agricultural production?
2. Does agricultural product helps to improve peoples standard of living?
3. To what extent has agriculture contributed tremendously to the overall development of economic of Nigeria?
4.
How can you as a member of co-operative help to remedy some of the
problems facing the development of co-operative society?
5. Does government show much concern to appreciate the work of co-operative in increasing productivity?
1.6 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Most
of their term (words or phrase that are used in this projects report
may be unfamiliar or may have peculiar meaning and connotation.)
These terms includes:-
1.
Agricultural Productivity: The index of the ratio of the value of the
total form output to the value of the total input used in farm
production.
2. Farm Management: The application of farming science
and technology as the solution of the day to day problems facing the
farms.
3. Bye –Laws: We mean the registered bye-laws made by a
co-operative society which governs the activities of such society and
which is made by a society in the exercise of any power conferred by the
co-operative laws.
4. Small-scale Individual farmers: This implies
that a farmer whose total cultivable farm land is not more than hectares
and whose farm labour requirement are largely supplied by his family,
his sells are good in a localized market. He requires low initial
capital investment farms on small holdings with simple technology and at
least 60% of his annual income from agriculture.
5. Enofed: This
means Ndokwa west local government area co-operative federal limited.
It is the highest co-operative body in this state that gives supervisory
to other co-operative bodies in the state.
6. Co-operative
Society: It is a form of organization whereby people voluntarily
associate together as human beings on the basis of equality for the
promotion of the economic interests of themselves.
7. Auxiliary
Co-operatives: This type provides individual service to members. The
co-operatives main function are to provide credit supply and market and
storage the co-operative has no hand in the supervision and management
affairs of member farm.
8. Productive Type: Here there is a full
integration. The co-operation absorbs all the member business
enterprise that is members’ economic responsibilities are borne be the
co-operatives is found in Delta, Ndokwa West Local Government Area.
9.
Production Promotion Co-operative: This is co-operative by
integration, the farmer depends on society for his production
activities. This is a strong link between the co-operative and members
in areas of management marketing credit and decision making.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The research work on the topic “improving Agricultural production through co-operative (A case study of Ndokwa West L. G. A Delta State Co-operative as was carried out to survey the past programmes and polities constituted by government to mobilize peasant farmers into agricultural co-operative and functional ones more productive as a way of facilitating the attainment of self-sufficiency in agricultural productivity in the country.The general constrains that affect the achievement of th ... Continue reading---
