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MANAGEMENT
OF FARMERS MULTI-PURPOSE COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN ANAMBRA STATE: PROBLEMS AND
SOLUTIONS
(A CASE STUDY OF
ONISTHA NORTH L.G.A)
ABSTRACT
The
researcher investigated the management problems and solutions of farmers
cooperative societies in Onitsha north local government area. The population of
the study was the registered farmers cooperative societies were systematically
selected from the six registered societies in the Onitsha axis in such a way
that for every three societies appearing on the list, the third one was picked
or selected and three were equally selected from ten registered societies in
the same axis. The only instruments
used was questionnaires which were distributed to members of the cooperative
societies and staff/committee members of the selected societies. The data
collected was analyzed by using table and percentages.
The summary of the investigation
shows that some farmers cooperative societies are not viable and that this
emanates from poor financial personnel problems administration and the
management cooperative education has viouted in cooperative awareness to both
members and staff/management committee members. This cooperative education was
discovered not a waste of finance and that the members participation and
patronage. Finally some recommendations to remedy the situation were put
forward and suggestions for further studies were advanced too.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter One
1.1
Introduction
1.2
Objectives of the
study
1.3
Statement of
Problem
1.4
Purpose of the
study
1.5
Research Question
1.6
Significance of the
study
1.7
Scope and Limitation of the
study
1.8
Definition of
Terms
Chapter Two
2.1
Definition of Principles of
Management
2.2
Development of cooperative in Onitsha north L.G.A
2.3
Inadequate
Financing
2.4
Shortage of Skilled
Personnel
2.5
High Labour Turnover of Trained Personnel
2.6
Excessive Government
Control
2.7
Existing Faulty Credit
System
2.8
Mismanagement
2.9
Poor Service Condition of
Staff
2.10 Lack of
Total Commitment by Members
2.11 Lack of
Cooperative
Education
2.12 Inadequate
Public Awareness
2.13
Solutions
Chapter Three:
Research Design and
Methodology
3.1
Introduction
3.2
Research Design
3.3
Population
3.4
Sample Selection
Techniques
3.5
Sources of
Data
3.6
Data
Collection
3.7
Procedure for Data Analysis
Chapter four:
Presentation and
Analysis
4.1
Introduction
4.2
Demographic profile of respondents
table
Chapter Five
5.1
Summary of Findings
5.2
Recommendation
5.3
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
The cooperative
movement in a programme designed to bring independent persons together for the
betterment of their economic conditions cooperative in one form or the other,
have been used for capturing economic of scale effective mobilization of labor
combination of Agro Industrial development programmes with the aim of promoting
a more egalitarian distribution of economic growth in all communities. Hence,
the well known slogan “self help through mutual help” by cooperators.
However, cooperatives in Onitsha north are yet to make the desired impact on
the communities, there is then the need for an effective management
system that will help direct the activities of the cooperatives towards
achieving their objectives, thereby endeavour to examine the extent to which
poor management system retards the growth of the farmers cooperative societies
in Onitsha north.
The viability of any cooperative society depends on the finance, educational
competence and managerial skills of executives and cooperation of all the
cooperatives. Therefore poor management have being the brain behind the low
productivity and poor generation of revenue of some of the societies in Onitsha
north local government area.
The importance of good management of farmers cooperative societies cannot be
over emphasized, a good management capitalizes on the economic and social needs
satisfaction of its members since when individual joins an organization, they
often hope to achieve a personal goal but this cannot be possible without
achieving organizational goals. Unfortunately, there is bifurcation i.e
division of interest among members and executives. They lack effective
management skill and most of them have never had the opportunity to attend seminars,
workshop and symposium on management cooperatives societies.
Furthermore, farmers cooperatives society in Onitsha north lack good
organizational structure. The principle of democracy in cooperative
organization has rendered it playing toy and it has become perpetually
unproductive as members with less investment in the cooperative often close
their eyes to the risk of poor management strategies in a competitive economy
like ours.
It is worthy to point that the researcher’s attempt to formulae strategies
geared towards the successful implementation of the cooperative goals and
objectives.
1.2
OBJECTIVE OF THE
STUDY
The general objectives of this study is to scientifically and critically
highlight managerial problems which affects the efficient functions of farmers
cooperative society.
Specifically the
objectives of the study includes
i.
analyzing how these management problems abort the well being of members of the
cooperative.
ii.
How best these problems could be successfully eliminated.
iii.
The objectives is also o analyze how members react to these problems.
iv.
Finally, this project is aimed at identifying how lack of education contributes
negatively on the managerial problems of farmers cooperative society.
1.3
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The study is intended to investigate the major management problems and
solutions of farmers cooperative societies in Onitsha north local government
area of Anambra state.
It is interesting observed that cooperative societies have laudable objectives
which they set for themselves but these objectives are never achieved because
of the management problems facing them, such as inadequate funding by members,
poor and ineffective management of the societies and not having enough members.
1.4
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The research work is mainly for academic purpose, the reliability of many
cooperative societies and the liquidation of some of them suggests that
something is wrong, perhaps with their management system.
Therefore, it is the objectives of the researcher to find out some of the
causes of these problems and suggest ways to bring about a lasting improvement
to farmers cooperative societies.
The researcher would look into the problems militating against the effective
management of farmers cooperative societies in Onitsha north.
1.5
RESEARCH QUESTION
The
following research question will be aimed at finding answer to this study.
1.
Do unavailability of finance constitute a problem to the effective management
of farmers cooperative society?
2.
Do lack of committees in decision making constitute a problem of the effective
management of farmers cooperative society?
3.
Do lack of trained staff constitute a problem to the effective management of
farmers cooperative society?
1.6
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE
STUDY
This study is meant to aid cooperators gain more knowledge of what is expected
of them for the success of the cooperative enterprise by:
1.
Determine some of the basic management flaws that are encountered by farmers
cooperative societies in Onitshan north local government area.
2.
Determine the extent to which their problems constitute a hindrance to the
efficiency of the societies.
3.
Seeking avenues through which such problems can be minimized.
4.
Finally based on the findings of the study, recommendations shows that the
inefficiency of management should be rectified for the realization of the
societies objectives.
This study also wants
to ameliorate the bottleneck preventing farmers in cooperative from realizing
the benefits of large scale production, marketing and credit facilities. Other
benefits of the study includes:
1.
The enlightenment of cooperators on the need to be properly committed to the
cooperative movement. This will help to make cooperators understand what is
expected of them in cooperation and how to cooperate for
effectiveness.
2.
It is envisaged that cooperative organizers will gain more insight on how to
organize and manage the farmers cooperative societies more profitable after
going through their report.
The government will
come to see the need to have well trained cooperative leaders to champion the
affairs of farmers cooperative societies. They will also be more willing to
remove the administrative bottlenecks that militate loan disbursement to
farmers cooperative societies. This will come about when the suggestion of this
research is implemented
1.8
DEFINITION OF TERMS
1. Cooperative
Society: This is an association of persons who join together either
formally or informally adhoc or permanent basis for legal or illegal or
socially accepted or unaccepted actions to fulfill certain aims (Obodoechi,
2011).
2. Farmers
Cooperative Societies: It is a cooperative society that is made up of only
farmers to cater for the need of its members.
3. Farmers
Multi-purpose Cooperative Society: This is cooperative society that
performs more than one function e.g food production and marketing.
4. Identification:
In relation to this research it shows certain phenomenon that are detrimental
to the management of cooperative.
5. Management:
It is act of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, controlling and
budgeting in a farmers cooperative society so as to realize its objectives.
6. Problems:
This refers to those objectives and concerns that affect the performance of the
management of the society.
7. Trained
Staff: This refers to anybody who has undergone professional training in
any cooperative institution.
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