Studies On The Coordinate Development Of Supply And Marketing Cooperatives And The Agricultural Industrialization Of Hubei In The New Period

During China's historical course towards modernization, "problems of agriculture, rural area and farmer are of great importance in the reform and opening-up and the modernization construction. Without the stability of rural area, there is no national stability; without fanners' well-being no the well-being of the whole nation and no agricultural modernization no that of the national economy." During this new period, it is the Party's and national historic task and the emphasis of national economy to solve the "Three Agricultural Problems", that is, problems of "Agriculture, Rural Area and Farmer". Meanwhile, stricter and stricter requirement is put on the high quality of agricultural products, regionalization of agricultural development and agricultural industrialization. All of these call for the agricultural historic leap and new ideas and methods. Under this circumstance, agricultural industrialization, a new agricultural production and organization mode, has been widespread throughout the nation and achieved preferable effect in Shangdong and Zhengjiang Provinces. What's more, it has been acknowledged by many scholars that agricultural industrialization is the third revolution in rural area following the household contract responsibility system with remuneration linked to output. However, with the gradual improvement of industrialization theory and many inharmonious problems existing in its practice, cooperative organization demands to participate in the agricultural industrialization to make up its shortages. From the theoretical perspective, cooperative organization and agricultural industrialization depend upon each other, that is, cooperative organization is the effective carriers of agricultural industrialization while the latter is the economic basis of the former, especially of the development of supply and marketing cooperative. The coordinate development of them will bring two-win, as well as the improvement of farmers' organizing level, promotion of the commercialization, specialization and socialization of agricultural products and the effective settlement of "Three Agricultural Problems of Agriculture, Rural Area and Farmers".As farmers' cooperative economic organization, the supply and marketing cooperative, actually covering all the managing services except the agricultural insurance and credit, is the preponderant cooperative economic organization in rural area. Through the history, it is seen that supply and marketing cooperative has played a fairly important role in rural economic development and its function and status have been attached great...