How Farmers’ Cooperation Works

In2005, the Central Committee of the CPC put forward several drastic measures on the construction of a new socialist countryside, making the country’s demands for the public products such as road, water conservancy and so on increase day by day. However, subject to the real national conditions of the wide distribution and large population of Chinese countryside, the problem of fund shortage appeared in the supply of the public products in rural areas. Under this circumstance, some rural areas shift their eyes to inside of the village, supplying their public products through the farmers’cooperation under the induction of the national policies. As a result, the phenomenon of farmers’"cooperation difficulty"is changing.This paper selects the national-level poverty-stricken county--a common agricultural village in Hong’an County of Hubei Province, as the research unit. Taking the author’s on-the-spot investigation visit as the main body material, this paper introduces the rural road hardening problem as the starting point to describe the motivation change of the village cadres’ efforts in promoting the farmer cooperation and the farmers’ choice of having capital cooperation in the process. Than this paper tries to explore that how does Changgang village make the farmers’ funds cooperation come true? What role do village cadres and national policy play in the farmers’ cooperation?What factors contributed to the realization of the farmers’ cooperation of Changgang village?According to the situation that the author has investigated in the village, the farmers have the original cooperative ability. By improving the village-level democratic management mechanism, establishing farmers’ supervision organization, expanding farmers’ participating scope, unblocking the promotion channels of the village elites, and excavating and nurturing the village social capitals, the farmers perform autonomous cooperation, then it is absolutely possible for the public products to be supplied.