Theeffectofagriculturalcooperativesocietyonsalesofmembersoutput (acasestudyofmadobimulti-Purposecooperative)

Student: Usaini Abubakar Ahmad (Project, 2025)
Department of Cooperative Economics and Management
Kano State Polytechnic, Kano, Kano State

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Thisdescriptivestudywasconductedwiththeaimofassessingtheimpactofagriculturalcooperativesocietyonthesalesofmembersoutputinmadobilocalgovernmentarea.Arandomsampleof74respondentsweregivenquestionnairesfromthreedistrictscomprisingGora,KwankwasoandNingawaareaswithregisteredmembersofthecooperativesocietytorepresentthepopulationofstudy.Datawascollectedregardingthesocio-economiccharacteristicsoftargetrespondents,somechallenges(finance,middlemen,roadinfrastructure,lowprices,lackofgoodaccesstomarketinformation).also,aonesamplet-teststatisticswasusedtoanalyzetheimpactofagriculturalmarketingcooperativesusingsomeparameterssuchas(ifthefarmers/membersearnmorebeforejoiningthecooperative?iftheirincomehasincreaseafterjoiningthecooperative?,ifthecooperativesupplyreliablemarketinformationaswellasdeterminegoodpricefortheirmembersproduce?).Theresultsshowedthatmostoftherespondentswerebetween30yearsandaboveandmostlymaleswithcollegelevelofeducation.Otherobjectivesanalysisbasedonvariablesmentionedaboveonsampledrespondentsshowsthecooperativeisbeingchallengedbythemandvaluecomputedfromtestedstatisticsseemsgreaterthantheconfidencelevelof95%whichindicatestrongevidenceontheimpactofagriculturalmarketingcooperativesocietyinthestudyarea.Thestudyalsorecommendedbasedonitsfindingsthatfarmersshouldbeempoweredintermsofgoodaccesstomarketinginformationinvolvingpriceandavailablemarketfortheirproducetohelpreducetheexploitationofmiddlemen.Also,thegovernmentshouldinterveneintermsofpricesetting,finance,goodroadinfrastructuretoencouragefarmingactivitiesandfoodavailability.

Keywords
Agricultural cooperative cooperative society members’ output Madobi Multi-Purpose Cooperative sales performance marketing collective bargaining farmers’ income agricultural development Kano State.
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