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COOPERATIVE
AS AGENT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT (2008-2012) A CASE STUDY OF ABAKPA NIKE LOCAL
GOVERNMENT AREA
CHAPTER ONE
1.0
INTRODUCTION
In
most developing countries, cooperative societies constitute the most important
aspects of rural development. It was proposed as a result of the evils of the
industrial revolution as of (1750 – 1850. It was when the factory owners (the
capitalists) exploited workers bitterly in order to maximize profit. During
that period unemployment was rife and were extremely low.
There was child labour, shop keepers on their own part sold adulterated goods.
The worker lived in crowded shanties in unsanitary conditions. The worked for
more than twelve hours in ill ventilated factory buildings
That looked like a
prison yard
These anti-social
effect of the life industrial revolutions resulted in wide spread of poverty
and sufferings while others died of malnutrition, disease and starvation. Life
was so hard that the decade became known as “hungry forties” it was because of
all these problems that great men (workers) started fighting for social reform
they retailed with violence and strikes they condemned the evils of capitalist.
It was then that the apostles of Robert owen (the Owenties) Dr Willian king,
JohnLyod Charles Hawarth, Willaim owenite. Willaim pare looked for the better
way to solve their problems and later proposed the word co-operatives as a
solution to wipe out those evils. The gospel spread all over the countries of
the world throughout cooperatives movement.
When they have succeed in 1750 through the help of Rochadale pioneers of 1844,
they carried on the gospel o cooperative. The rochdale pioneers include.
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Charles fourier
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Charles Donwin
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Louise Blank
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Phillipe scotta
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Philipe Buchez
1.1
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Cooperatives societies have spread all over the countries of Africa, more
especially in Nigeria it was because of its vital roles towards the development
of rural areas that led to its proposal after the F.C strick land report.
Cooperative society help to reduce the sufficient of less privileged ones
living in the problem of poverty, unemployment and poor standard of living
among rural dwellers need a self help organization were they will pool their
little resources together to help themselves this will stop total dependence in
government assistance by means of forming a cooperative society that is
collective action they will be able to solve their individual problems.
Cooperative is an association of people who comes together to solve their
problems through mutual action. It raises its head in metropolis as well as in
cosmetropolitan environment. It was the uniqueness of cooperative and its
flexibility permits it to be practiced among farmers, fishersmen, artisans and
woman.
Cooperative societies do not discriminate either in sex, religion or race, it
is for all both producers and consumers, men and women the rich and the poor
the educated and the illiterates engaged in cooperatives activities.
Cooperatives societies has reached to various local government areas and was
headed by divisional cooperative officers to promote cooperative in the area of
the research was carried on to find out the development of Enugu east (NIKE)
Local government area.
1.2
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The research is
Cooperative as agent of rural development. The development of rural areas
cannot be achieved as was expected by rural dwellers. This is because people
were much dependent in government to provide all their needs which they cannot
be able to solve completely because of voluminous works and other needs they
have to attain. Hence government encourages people to form organization in
which they should come together to solve their problems.
Cooperatives society is are of the major organization were people mostly in
rural areas emerged together to achieve their set objectives the problem is to
access how important cooperative societies it to the rural development.
1.3
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
This
research has the major objective of finding out the importance of cooperative
society to rural development in Abakpa Nike (Enugu East) local government area.
Specific objectives
include:
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Identify the help of cooperative society in motivation of rural people to form
or join a cooperative society.
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To know how they have in the provision of infrastructure facilities.
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To access their help so far in education the rural people.
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To know how they have in providing the farmers with storage facilities.
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To know whether they organized any market for the farmers.
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To know how they have helped to solve unemployment problems in Abakpa Nike
local government area.
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To know how they have helped them to raise their income.
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To know also how they have helped the farmers to receive government assistance.
1.4
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
There is the need for the development of rural areas through cooperative
societies. This study will show the importance of cooperative societies to the
rural development in Nike local government area as a basis for offering
uniformed suggestions for improvement in the rural development.
It is believed that the findings, suggestions and recommendations of this study
will be benefits to increase the importance of cooperative societies to rural
development.
Specifically this
study will go a long way to developing rural areas this also my result to the
improved in the development of people as well as increasing their standard of
living.
The individual people would be well educated which will encourage in the
establishment of cooperative business enterprise to enhance development. The
provision of basic infrastructure facilities will be a affordable and both cooperative
societies and government would be involved in financing agriculture activities.
The availability of processing industries and storage facilities would be
provided which will reduce the wastage of goods.
Finally, the outcome of this study will be very useful to the development of
Nike local government entirely.
1.5
RESEARCH QUESTION
- How far have
cooperative societies helped in the provision of infrastructure facilities in
Nike?
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Do cooperative society help in education of the rural dwellers?
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Do cooperatives help in eliminating the middlemen and the extortioners?
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Do cooperative society organizes market for them?
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Whether cooperative society solve unemployment problem in the area?
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Do cooperative society helps them to receive government grants and subsidy?
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Do cooperative provide storage facilities for them?
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Do cooperative society encourage them to join cooperative societies
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Do cooperative help them to raise their income
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Whether cooperative societies increase their standard of living?
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Do cooperative help them in provision of transport facilities.
1.6
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The
scope of this study is focused on cooperatives as agent of rural development in
Nike local government area. It means that this research could not be carried
out in all the rural areas in Nigeria, the study is limited based on the fact
that there is no time and material resources see to the whole nation.
The findings may not be valid to the whole cooperatives societies and rural
development but believed that what happened to Nike may be applied in other
rural areas.
1.8
DEFINITION OF TERMS
COOPERATIVE:
it means the relationship between individual people or cooperative
organizations united together to help themselves through mutual action.
RURAL URBAN
MIGRATIO: this
also means urban rush the movement of people from rural areas to urban areas
may be due to the problem of electricity or lack of job and good roads.
ONWERNITES: they
were people that fought for the community alleviate them from their suffering
and abolished the evils of capitalism.
ROCHDALE PIONEERS:
they were people that
carried out the gospel of cooperation after the twenties they formed the first
modern cooperative societies in England with 28 weavers.
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