CO - OPERATION AND AGRICULTURE (TAAVON)
Year:2020 | Volume:9 | Issue:35|Papers Count:7

Given the responsibility of women in the family and the effective functioning of cooperatives in meeting the needs of life, women's orientation in cooperative affairs seems to be considered. Women make up 49. 6 percent of the country's population; about two-thirds of whom are Housewife and 11 percent of the country's active cooperatives are dedicated to women. These cooperatives are active in industry, agriculture and services. The aim of this study was to identify the factors affecting the tendency of housewives to cooperative affairs in a qualitative manner. Using the tools of in-depth and semi-structured interviews in the framework of "Grounded theory", the necessary data were collected and adjusted from 15 housewives aged 20 to 60 living in Tehran in 2020, and after analyzing the research findings" Lack of capital" and "Lack of knowledge of cooperation" as a "Background condition", " Individual ability's" as "Causal condition", "Family and friends" As an" interfering condition", " Financial, legal and moral obligations" as Interactions and" Weak institutionalization of cooperative culture" as Consequences on the tendency of housewives to cooperative affairs were identified.

Expansions of distribution and sales networks as well as diversification of domestic suppliers and diversified supply methods and also, price fluctuations make purchasing process complex and cost management necessary. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the financial performance of rural cooperatives network of Guilan province after implementation of centralized agricultural purchase and sale plan. This research is applied in terms of purpose, descriptive-analytical in terms of research method and the documentary method of data collection is also used. In order to fulfill the research objectives, the financial information of 91 cooperative units was studied and analyzed over a seven-year period from 2011 to 2016. The research methodology is a post-event type (using past information). Due to the panel nature of the data, panel regression and Eviews software were used for statistical analysis. The results showed that the ratio of debt to asset or financial leverage, size of cooperative, cooperative loans, and dummy variable for mentioned plan implementation had an indirect (negative) effect on cooperative ROE during the understudy period. Meanwhile, the negative effect of leverage, size and loans was statistically significant at the five, one and one percent levels, respectively. Also, during the study period, cooperative capital, cooperative sales, cooperative current ratio and cooperative futures ratio had a direct (positive) and statistically significant effect on ROE at one percent level.

Although the export of agricultural products in Iran has an important role in the national economy, but agricultural production cooperatives have failed in marketing and exporting products. The aim of this study was to determine the appropriative strategies for marketing and exporting of agricultural products in agricultural production cooperatives of Maku Industrial and Trade Free Zone. An applied research was conducted by using a survey method and a questionnaire. The statistical population included directors and members of the board of directors of the two production cooperatives and experts who were 40 people in overall that were studied by the census method. Using internal and external matrices and SWOT analytical matrix, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing cooperatives were prioritized and then appropriate strategies were identified. Based on the results, a total of 12 strength versus 20 weaknesses and 13 opportunities against 13 threats were identified. Based on the results, a conservative-revision strategy was identified to use opportunities and eliminate weaknesses. The proposed strategies were: using investors to create processing and complementary industries; Utilization of new production technologies; Employing specialized staff and managers in production cooperatives; Granting banking facilities with special conditions to exporters of agricultural products; Conduct marketing research; Quantitative and qualitative improvement of agricultural products; And timely provision of production inputs.

The aim of this study was to identify the educational needs of managing directors of rural cooperatives in the field of entrepreneurship management by survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of the managing directors of rural cooperatives and training experts of cooperative offices in Mazandaran province. A total of 183 managing directors of cooperatives and 54 experts of cooperative offices in Mazandaran province were surveyed by census method. The face and content validity of the research tool was confirmed by experts and professors in the field of entrepreneurship. The reliability of the research instrument was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha in the range (0. 77 to 0. 98). This research was conducted in two stages: first, the educational needs of managing directors were determined from their own point of view and then from the point of view of experts using a questionnaire based on the Burich model. In the second stage, in order to determine the level of agreement between the managing directors of cooperatives and experts regarding their educational needs, the quadrant model was used. The results showed that the dimensions of financial management and strategic management were identified as priority training needs of managing directors of rural cooperatives in the field of entrepreneurial management and were prioritized in training programs. It is necessary to provide theoretical and practical training in accordance with the priorities in accordance with each need in order to ultimately promote the entrepreneurial management characteristics of the managing directors and provide the ground for the growth and development of cooperatives in the market.

The aim of the present study is to investigate the role of Hamoon Lake's environmental capabilities on the socio-economic development of rural areas of Sistan. The method of this research is descriptive-analytical and the required data were obtained through completing questionnaires and field study. To determine the sample size, Cochran sampling method (with error of 108) was used, and out of 611 rural households, 121 supervisors were randomly interviewed. Also, 18 agricultural experts from the region were interviewed, using available sampling. Descriptive statistics; frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation; and t-test were used to analyze the research data in SPSS software. Also, the VICOR ranking model was used for spatial analysis of the villages and finally the Fuzzy AHP model was applied to investigate the environmental impact factor in sistan. The results of the t-test showed that the environmental capabilities of Lake Hamoon had a significant effect on the economic and social sustainability of the studied villages of sistan, so that in both dimensions, the mean dimensions were higher than the theoretical median (3). Economic and livelihoods (44) and socio-cultural (30894) were the highest, respectively. According to the results of the VICOR ranking technique, the Lourg va Bagh village with coefficient (Q =10919) is the best village to use environmental potentials in sistan. The results of Fazzy AHP technique showed that among the known capabilities, high groundwater level (10484) was the most important environmental power in sistan and the need for no fertilization (1034) was the least important factor.

The purpose of this study was to identify the effective components trustbased cooperation in order to design and present a proposed Pattern of trustbased cooperation in consumer cooperatives based on a qualitative paradigm and qualitative content analysis method and semi-structured interview tools. The research community consists of experts in the field of organizational behavior and top consumption cooperative managers in the country. For this purpose, 14 experts were interviewed. The data obtained from the interviews were analyzed based on the Strauss-Corbin model of Grounded theory design and Atlas. Ti software. Preliminary results from the analysis of interviews showed that consumer cooperatives are not in a good position in terms of participation and cooperation, and one of the main reasons is the low level of social trust in their community. In the pivotal analysis of the initial codes, first the main categories were identified and then the other categories were categorized based on the Strauss and Corbin model including causal causes, strategies, contextual factors, environmental conditions and consequences of cooperation based on trust. The result of open coding was 456 primary codes, 176 concepts, and 12 main components. Satisfaction plays an important role in the main categories such as customer orientation, interaction and cooperation, provision of various services by consumer cooperatives, access to financial resources and financial status of cooperatives, laws and regulations, Cooperative pathology, requirements for gaining trust, cooperative perspective, requirements for forming a cooperative. In general, in order to improve the situation of cooperatives in terms of participation and cooperation based on trust in their society, it is necessary to pay attention to the structures of social capital as a central principle and increase it.

Given the limitations in cooperative companies, one of the ways to increase the share of the cooperative sector in the Iranian economy is to implement supportive policies by the government. The aim of this study was to investigate the problems in development cooperatives of agricultural production of strategic crops (wheat, barley and corn) with emphasis on supportive policies in the agricultural sector of Shahrood. The statistical population includes all active cooperatives producing agricultural sector, including 23 cooperatives in Shahrood city, which using random sampling and Cochran's formula out of 170 main members of companies 115 of them were selected. The reliability and validity of the research instruments were confirmed by calculating the coefficients of KMO and Cronbach's alpha (α > 0. 7). Data analysis was performed with spss software. The results showed that the members of the studied cooperatives are not well aware of problems belong the agricultural sector in any area and only imagine the protectionist policy in injecting liquidity. Finally, the problems of agricultural production cooperatives were classified based on analysis, with emphasis on protection policies, in the framework of knowledge and management factors, personality and psychological, policy and support.