Farmer Cooperation In The Development Of The Problem And Countermeasures

The severity of China's issues of"three rural"has aroused wide-spread concern. The Party and the government have also paid highly attention to solving this problem. Since the reform and opening-up, China has adapted the house-hold contract responsibility system, transferring the mode of production from the"iron rice bowl"to one of independent operation. However, this mode of production has its own flaws——as a producer and operator, the forces of the family or the individual are mot strong enough to master their own destiny. The small-scale farmer economy can't be operated on large-scale, so it can't achieve the largest effect, nor can it compete with other economics entities in the market economy as an independent one, let alone match the international market. To solve the issue of"three rural", we must explore a new way suited to China's national conditions. The establishment of a co-operative organization of farmers can be regarded as one of some use.There are many forms of co-operative organization. This paper exclusively studies the professional co-operative organization of the farmers, using the methods of literature research, case study and empirical analysis. The author systematically elaborates the connotation, characteristics, types and modes of operation of this organization. Based on the analysis of the development process of this organization, the author discusses the following problems: the inaccuracy of its self-positioning, the unclerity of its legal status and the weakness of the government's policy support as well as the imperfect mechanism of internal control. The author also analyzes the reasons for these problems: out-dated concepts, misunderstandings, the development of the public is not high, the market economy system is mot perfect and the overall low quality of farmers and weak self-management.Currently, there are good opportunities for the development of Professional Cooperative Organization for Chinese Farmers (PCOCF). For example, the highly attention of the Party and government provides insurance; the deepening of the reform of the government provides broad scope of development; the improvement of the market economy system provides the infrastructure development, the further opening to outside world provides external support; the development of civil society provides social conditions. To promote the benign and orderly development of the PCOCF and to bring it into full play, the organization itself should seek opportunities and offer more policy-related support. On the one hand, we should intensify the legislation of PCOCF and improve the policy support towards PCOCF and also increase formed-raising channels .On the other hand ,we should improve the internal mechanism of PCOCF and strengther the cooperation education and training system of PCOCF.