09-08-2014, 02:43 PM
Co-operative Societies in Rural Market
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INTRODUCTION OF CO-OPERATIVE SOCITY
Co-operation means working together with another or others for a common purpose. in the present context for economic progress.
The Co-operative movement has helped in preventing exploitation of people from money-lenders and in raising economic status specially of small farmers, village artisans, landless labourers, destitute women etc.
It has created many centre’s in the rural areas creating new employment opportunities and enhancing productive capacity and competitive ability of people of the weaker sections of the society.
However, in the post-liberalization era, the Co-operative movement has been facing new big challenges of severe competitions in keeping qualitative standards of products and services
THE GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF CO-OPERATIVES
A co-operative is a form of organization that is widely prevalent in developing countries including India.
It has great potential as an instrument of rural development. Co-operation as an ethical norm has been lauded all over the world since time immemorial.
From the philosophical perspective, co-operation and its opposite, competition, are two basic tendencies of human behaviour and both co-exit in every individual.
The origin of formal co-operation in the form of a co-operative organization is traced to Europe, particularly, England, France and Germany, in the mid-nineteenth century.
IMPACT OF CO-OPERATIVES ON RURAL DEVELOPMENT
There have been no large-scale assessment studies of the impact on rural development of co-operatives across various sectors in India.
What we have are small scale sample surveys conducted by scholars and research institutes to assess the impact of selected co-operatives, mostly milk, sugar, and credit co-operatives, on various dimensions of rural development such as income, employment, and access to health care and education
we will attempt to determine the impact of co-operatives on rural development with special reference to milk and sugar co-operatives.
The Impact of Milk Co-operatives
The Impact of Sugar Co-operatives
CONCLUSION
The Co-operative marketing has conferred multifarious advantages on the farmers. Due to ignorance and illiteracy often farmers have to face well-organised mass of clever intermediaries. But since farmers join hands and form Co-operative societies, they are less prone to exploitation and malpractices. Now, instead of marketing their produce separately, they market it together through one agency. This has increase their bargaining vis-a vis merchants and intermediaries. The Marketing Co-operative Societies in Maharashtra provide credit to the farmers to save them from the necessity of selling their produce immediately after harvesting. It ensures better returns to the farmers. The Co-operative marketing societies generally have storage facilities. Thus the farmers can wait for better prices and their products are out of the danger from rains, rodents and thefts.