Abstract
“Industry prosperity”, as a key content of the Rural Revitalization Strategy, is an effective way to increase farmers’ income, agricultural development and rural prosperity. Cooperatives have the functions of serving, assisting and enriching the people and are an important organizational carrier for achieving rural industry prosperity. This paper uses the propensity score-matching model and the field survey data of Dajiuhu Town, Shennongjia, Hubei Province to study the effect of farmers’ participation in cooperatives on their net income by means of quantitative analysis. The empirical results show that (1) farmers’ participation in cooperatives can improve their net income level; (2) the education level of farmers has a significant effect on their participation in cooperatives; (3) household factors, production and management characteristics and external environment also have an important effect on farmers’ participation. Based on the above conclusions, this research proposes the encouragement of farmers to actively participate in cooperatives, improve their education level, vigorously improve rural infrastructure and enhance farmers’ self-development efficiency to promote the continuous increase of farmers’ incomes, and give rise to the positive role of cooperatives in rural development, in order to realize the revitalization and sustainable development of rural areas.
Highlights
As a gathering place of advantageous resources, cities are extremely attractive to industrial development, while rural areas are in a weak position for industrial participation due to factors such as geographic location and resource endowments
Under a counterfactual framework, a random simulation experiment is created using the propensity score matching (PSM) matching resampling method to find a group of farmers who do not participate in cooperatives with similar characteristics to farmers participating in cooperatives, solving the effect of sample biased estimation, in order to observe the impact of participating in cooperatives on farmers’ income
For Getnet based on the data analysis of Ethiopia, it is found that cooperatives play a positive role in supporting people’s livelihood development and poverty reduction, reducing the instability and vulnerability of the livelihood of the poor, improving the overall quality and income of poor farmers [47]
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Considering that industrial poverty alleviation has played an important role in the process of poverty alleviation in Shennongjia, we decided that through in-depth research, using this area as an example, the effectiveness of cooperatives at increasing farmers’ incomes was clarified, and successful experiences and effective measures are summarized, which have an important impact on the realization of income sustainability and rural prosperity in this region and provide a certain reference for regions in similar situations around the world. In view of the characteristics of rural heterogeneity, by studying the industrial development organization of cooperatives, considering its role in the development of rural industries and exploring ways to realize the prosperity of rural industries and increase farmers’ incomes, we wish to look at this from the perspective of sociology
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