Comparative Analysis of the Performance of Farmers’ Cooperatives in Ikwerre and Etche Local Government Areas of Rivers State
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Agriculture and Veterinary Science (IOSR-JAVS) - Year 2018, Vol 11, Issue 9
Abstract
This study compared of the Performance of Farmers’ Cooperatives in Ikwerre and Etche Local Government Areas of Rivers State. Specifically the study sought to examine the performance of farmers’ cooperative in Ikwerre Local Government Area, Examine the performance of farmers’ cooperative in Etche Local Government Area and Compare the performance of farmers’ cooperative in Ikwerre and Etche Local Government Areas. The data was sourced from primary source. Data was collected through well-structured copies of questionnaire. Descriptive statistics (mean scores) and inferential statistics (T-test) analysis were used for the analysis of data collected. The results showed that the performance of farmers’ cooperative was 2.70 implying that the cooperatives performed to a great extent. However, in Ikwerre farmers’ cooperatives had a grand means of 2.79 while in Etche the grand mean was 2.1 implying that the farmers’ cooperatives in Ikwerre performed better than the cooperatives in Etche. The t-test results showed no significance difference in the performance of farmers’ cooperative society (t-calculated = 1.893 < t-critical = 1.96. The measure that enhances the performance of farmers’ cooperatives include contributing to social activities in the community of the members, improving the financial performance of cooperative, providing additional services to members and creating opportunities for members to individually interact with each other. The study concluded that there should be enlightenment campaign that will increase farmers’ involvement in cooperative societies.
Authors and Affiliations
Dennis Brown Ewubare, Aderonke Ikeade Duyilemi
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