As one of the major new agricultural business entities, farmers' professional cooperatives play an important role in the development of modern agriculture in many ways, include promoting the scale production of agriculture, increasing farmers' income, helping land transfer in rural areas, and strengthening specialization training for farmers. Based on the survey data of farmers' professional cooperatives in Hunan, and applying the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), this paper constructed an evaluation system for the development levels of farmers' professional cooperatives and examined the quantitative characteristics and interrelationship of farmers' professional cooperatives in terms of economic effects, social effects, internal management and sustainable developments, and cooperatives' contribution to the comprehensive development level under the new situation. Results show that the average score of the development level of farmers' professional cooperatives in Hunan was 69.53; economic effects, social effects, internal management, and sustainable development are 89.36%, 65.89%, 72.47%, and 75.43%, respectively. In addition, results also found that, in general, farmers' professional cooperatives in Hunan are still in the lower middle level and social effects are the most serious weakness that restricts the development of cooperatives. Therefore, to enhance the development of modern agriculture in Hunan, this paper suggests to continue supporting the development of cooperatives, especially from the social effect perspective, and to improve the comprehensive development of cooperatives.%农民专业合作社作为主要的新型农业经营主体之一,在促进农业生产规模化,实现农民增收和农村土地流转,加强农民专业化培训等方面对现代农业发展具有重要意义.基于湖南省农民专业合作社的调查,利用层次分析法(AHP),构建农民专业合作社发展水平的评估体系,评估农民专业合作社的发展水平,探讨新形势下农民专业合作社在经济效益、社会效益、内部管理和可持续发展4个维度的量化表征、相互关系及其对综合发展水平的贡献.结果表明,湖南省农民专业合作社的平均得分为69.53;其中经济效益、社会效益、内部管理和可持续发展4个方面的指标得分率依次为71.11%、65.89%、72.47%和75.43%.研究表明,湖南省农民专业合作社整体上还处于中等偏下水平,社会效益是制约湖南农民专业合作社发展水平的最大短板.因此,建议继续扶持农民专业合作社的发展,尤其要重视农民专业合作社的社会效益,提高农民专业合作社的综合发展水平,进而促进湖南现代农业发展.
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