FACTORS AFFECTING SUCCESS AND FAILURE IN FARMERS‘ CO‐OPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS

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This paper poses a number of questions such us: Why do we want farmers to co‐operate? Who should benefit from co‐operation—the community or the co‐operators? What kind of (co‐operative) organisation should be encouraged?It is suggested that marketing groups provide a link between farm and marketing which will be of increasing importance as the demands for produce become more specific.Groups are see as an expression of practical sociology and some ideas for dynamic group organisation are set out. An attempt is made to suggest to more logical approach to the use of grant aid.Arguments are presented in favour of the answers that co‐operative organisation should grow upwards from busically small group beginnings; that co‐operators are to be the primary beneficiaries and the co‐operation is a suitable wuy of coping with the inherited structure of British agriculture.

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