Abstract
Cooperative early play and currently as well playing important role on socio-economic status of community for long time even if, they face different challenges and weakness. The study was conducted at agricultural cooperative in Ana Lemo district at Hadiya Zone, SNNPR. It intended in identifying factors that affects households membership participation in agricultural cooperatives. Multi-stage sampling method is conducted to define sample size from the target population on Ana Lemo district. Primary data in this study was collected through structured questionnaire based on 110 agricultural cooperative members’ respondents and 110 from non-members respondents from purposively selected five kebeles in Ana Lemo district. Total 220 household were selected by using two stage sampling method. Secondary data were gathered from agricultural cooperative and marketing office of district and Hadiya zone cooperative and marketing sectors. Both are quantitative and qualitative in nature. Data analysis is carried out with the help of various descriptive like chi 2 and t-test also econometric techniques were employed i.e logit model. The final results of study indicate that rural household participation on agricultural cooperative determined by being household head male, high education level, fertilizer amount that household used via yearly, access for agricultural extension, using yearly improved agricultural seed, appearance of household in wheat production and awareness about agricultural cooperative service affect household participation and associated positively and high market distance, having other opportunity for credit from financial institution also affect rural household participation and negatively correlated. So government and other concerned stockholders should support household in order to increase their usage of those agriculture input to increase membership and governments should include on its policy and give more reflexion on awareness creation on practise of agricultural improved seed and fertilizer on cooperatives. Keywords: Agriculture cooperative, participation, Logit model, membership. DOI : 10.7176/DCS/9-10-01 Publication date :October 31 st 2019
Highlights
Using collective action to deal with social and economic challenges has a long tradition in Ethiopia
The final results of study indicate that rural household participation on agricultural cooperative determined by being household head male, high education level, fertilizer amount that household used via yearly, access for agricultural extension, using yearly improved agricultural seed, appearance of household in wheat production and awareness about agricultural cooperative service affect household participation and associated positively and high market distance, having other opportunity for credit from financial institution affect rural household participation and negatively correlated
As revealed in table 2 below from respondents household head that (92%) are male and remained (8%) female head from those agricultural cooperative participants besides non-participants on membership 78.72% were male and 21.28% female headed households, the result revealed that household head sex significantly affect participation in agricultural cooperative membership with significance level 5% (X2 = 5.51**)
Summary
Using collective action to deal with social and economic challenges has a long tradition in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia cooperative state by cooperation among society /community to solve socio-economic problem which found in most are mutual aid institution like Equb, Eddir, Gejja, Senbete and others. This traditional cooperation among rural and urban community was alerted to modern cooperation in Ethiopia starting during Emperor Haileselase regime in 1961 (Zerihun, 1998). In Ethiopia, cooperative challenged by government policy and being participation on cooperative membership were by force and it is use as source for government revenue through time this still cause negative perception on rural farmers to participate agricultural cooperative and on its objective activities. After the downfall of the Derg regime in 1991, agricultural cooperatives in Ethiopia have become an integral part of the country wide strategy for agricultural transformation (MoFED, 2006)
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