The Research On The Development And Operation Of The Farmer Cooperatives In China

Since the acceleration of agricultural industrialization, the deep-going of agricultural structure adjustment, and China joining the WTO, the single farmer is confronted with the unpredictable huge market with great risks. Being the main channels to solve the mentioned problems, farmer cooperatives are the ideal economical organizations for spreading over the whole country at present. Such organizations, which the farmers attend voluntarily, managed by themselves and distributing profits according to their sales share can stimulate farmers to participate in agricultural cooperative and allocate agricultural resources reasonably. Thus farmer cooperatives can play concrete roles by pushing forward the process of agricultural industrialization and implementing the strategies of agricultural structure adjustment. They can also explore the increasing points of agriculture economy and provide more employment opportunities and continuously increase the farmer's income.Chapter1 Introduction. Based on a great amount of information, this chapter shows the background ,the worth of the paper and the framework of the paper.Chapter2 Basic theories of farmer cooperatives. This chapter reviews the associated research results and introduces the definition, the basic principles, the species and the effects of farmer cooperatives based on the analysis of former theories.Chapter3 The development and current situations of farmer cooperatives in China. At the aspect of spreading, industry, operation, service and distributions of profits of farmer cooperatives, it draws the profile of current situation of farmer cooperatives in China and proposes the challenges we are facing.Chapter4 The reference of the development experiences of foreign farmer cooperatives. The development experiences of Japan, America, Canada and France can be introduced and inspire the development of farmer cooperatives in China.Chapter5 Case studying of farmer cooperatives based on farmer cooperatives of Jingyan Sichuan province.Chapter6 Policy suggestions. By making the inner-operation mechanisms perfect, publicizing the Law of farmer cooperatives, increasing the government supports at the aspects of finance, banking and insurance, training the personnel of farmer cooperatives, and creating the atmosphere, the farmer cooperatives in China will have a bright future.