Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations

ABSTRACT The cooperative movement has played a major role as the growth engine of the agricultural sector in Thailand. However, Thai cooperatives in the sector are now faced with new needs and challenges from farmer-members and consumers. Farmer-members consider high economic returns, while,...
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ABSTRACT This paper aims to illustrate the participation of farmers and fishermen associations in substituting the role of middlemen in Malaysia. “War” against the manipulated middlemen program was launched to establish and support farmers and fishermen associations to reduce dependency of them...
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ABSTRACT The goal of Indonesian agricultural development is to increase the welfare of farmers and their family shown by their purchasing power and the quality of their livelihood. Agricultural industry in Indonesia is still underdeveloped.  It caused added value and job opportunity not able...
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ABSTRACT Agricultural cooperatives’ marketing business, especially on a pool basis, becomes more important as the agricultural market is increasingly globalized and concentrated by a few large-scale supermarkets. If agricultural cooperatives’ pooling is operated sufficiently in large...
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ABSTRACT In the past, the price of Taiwanese mangoes was often low due to abundant production. In recent years, the government, agricultural, Farmers’ Associations, and farmers have strived to improve various measures for production and sale. The Farmers’ Association plays an...
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