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Management Of Farmers Multi-purpose Co-operative Societies
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1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This
study is meant to aid cooperators gain more knowledge of what is
expected of them for the success of the cooperative enterprise by:
1.
Determine some of the basic management flaws that are encountered by
farmers cooperative societies in Onitshan north local government area.
2. Determine the extent to which their problems constitute a hindrance to the efficiency of the societies.
3. Seeking avenues through which such problems can be minimized.
4.
Finally based on the findings of the study, recommendations shows that
the inefficiency of management should be rectified for the realization
of the societies objectives.
This study also wants to ameliorate the
bottleneck preventing farmers in cooperative from realizing the benefits
of large scale production, marketing and credit facilities. Other
benefits of the study includes:
1. The enlightenment of cooperators
on the need to be properly committed to the cooperative movement. This
will help to make cooperators understand what is expected of them in
cooperation and how to cooperate for effectiveness.
2. It is
envisaged that cooperative organizers will gain more insight on how to
organize and manage the farmers cooperative societies more profitable
after going through their report.
The government will come to see the
need to have well trained cooperative leaders to champion the affairs
of farmers cooperative societies. They will also be more willing to
remove the administrative bottlenecks that militate loan disbursement to
farmers cooperative societies. This will come about when the suggestion
of this research is implemented
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS
1.
Cooperative Society: This is an association of persons who join
together either formally or informally adhoc or permanent basis for
legal or illegal or socially accepted or unaccepted actions to fulfill
certain aims (Obodoechi, 2011).
2. Farmers Cooperative Societies:
It is a cooperative society that is made up of only farmers to cater
for the need of its members.
3. Farmers Multi-purpose Cooperative
Society: This is cooperative society that performs more than one
function e.g food production and marketing.
4. Identification: In
relation to this research it shows certain phenomenon that are
detrimental to the management of cooperative.
5. Management: It
is act of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling and
budgeting in a farmers cooperative society so as to realize its
objectives.
6. Problems: This refers to those objectives and concerns that affect the performance of the management of the society.
7. Trained Staff: This refers to anybody who has undergone professional training in any cooperative institution.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The researcher investigated the management problems and solutions of farmers cooperative societies in Onitsha north local government area. The population of the study was the registered farmers cooperative societies were systematically selected from the six registered societies in the Onitsha axis in such a way that for every three societies appearing on the list, the third one was picked or selected and three were equally selected from ten registered societies in the same axis.The only instrume ... Continue reading---
