State management for agricultural cooperatives in Phu Tho province

Abstract

Development of agricultural cooperatives is one of the main tasks for successful implementation of the master plan on agricultural restructuring and new rural construction in Phu Tho province. In the past years, the People’s committee of Phu Tho province has been very active in the state management of agricultural cooperatives, thereby developing significantly agricultural cooperatives. Some models of agricultural cooperatives were initially successful associated with value chain development, high-technology application and development of OCOP “one commune, one product” program. However, there are still some shortcomings in state management activities for agricultural cooperatives such as: irregular inspection and supervision of agricultural cooperatives; production land and landing allocation for agricultural cooperatives in the long-term use has been still limited; difficulties in the support of seeds, fertilizers, product processing technology for cooperatives’ members, especially linking agricultural products along the value chain is an obstacle when majority producers are small scale. In addition, the mobilization and persuasion of people to join agricultural cooperatives is still not good. The study proposes 6 groups of solutions to improve the efficiency of state management activities for agricultural cooperatives in Phu Tho province in the future.