The Research On The Development, Problems And Countermeasures Of Specialized Farmer Cooperatives In Zaozhuang

After the implementation of the "People’s Republic of China Specialized Farmers Cooperatives Law"and "Shandong Specialized Farmers Cooperatives Rules", Zaozhuang, one of important developing city in Shandong province, views developing Specialized Farmers Cooperatives as the new breakthrough of local rural construction. Although Specialized Farmers Cooperatives in Zaozhuang has got significant development, there are still some severe issues restricting the development of rural economy seriously.Though the research of current development status of Specialized Farmers Cooperatives in Zaozhuang, this paper analysis the basic operation principles of Specialized Farmers Cooperatives, makes the empirical research on Zaozhuang Specialized Farmers Cooperatives and discusses its performance and enlightenment. This paper summarizes the present situation and its existing problems of Zaozhuang Specialized Farmers Cooperatives from the internal and external factors, and finally puts forward a series of feasible ideas and countermeasures accordingly.This paper is divided into five parts:The first part is the general theory of Specialized Farmers Cooperatives, including the basic meaning, features, principles and backgrounds of Specialized Farmers Cooperatives. The second part is the current situation of Zaozhuang’s Specialized Farmers Cooperatives. It including the historical backgrounds and internal motivation for the development of Specialized Farmers Cooperatives, the features,methods and types to develop Specialized Farmers Cooperatives, as well as the achieved performance and inspiration to develop Specialized Farmers Cooperatives. Thethird part is about achieved performance and inspiration of Zaozhuang’s Specialized Farmers Cooperatives. Specialized Farmers Cooperatives promote the support of production materials and the intensive extent of production sales, and it also strengthen the degree of farmer’ organization and agricultural products’ market competitiveness. The fourth part is the existing problems in Zaozhuang’s Specialized Farmers Cooperatives and reasons that caused these problems. The main problems including low level of cooperation, weak leading ability, low speed in transformation from coorerative economic organzation to cooperatives, and unstanded operation and management, the relationship between Specialized Farmers Cooperatives and other organizations still needs clearing and rationalizing. The fifth part are proposals to accelerate the development of Zaozhuang’s Specialized Farmers Cooperatives. To strengthen the degree of public awareness, to promote farmer’s cooperative awareness, to carry out the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Specialized Farmers Cooperatives, to regulate the development of Specialized Farmers Cooperatives, to increase the high quality Specialized Farmers Cooperatives, to promote the development of Specialized Farmers Cooperatives, to enhance the self-construction of Specialized Farmers Cooperatives, to increase policy support, to create a good policy environment for the development of Specialized Farmers Cooperatives.