Analysis of husbandry cooperatives in Ahwaz township of Iran

摘要

The main purpose of this research was identifying the prominent problems of husbandry cooperative in Ahwaz Township of Khuzestan province, Iran. The type of research was applied research and the research method was descriptive correlation method. The population of study was 132 manager of 132 husbandry cooperatives in Ahwaz township (N = 132). The research instrument was questionnaire. To test the validity of questionnaires, panel of experts was used. Reliability evidence experimented 30 copies of questionnaire that was provided and distributed among another cooperatives by Cronbach alpha method. The coefficient of Cronbach alpha for each item was determined to be higher than 0.70. The most prominent problems consists of low knowledge of members about philosophy of co-operatives-, tendency? of? cooperatives towards services activities-, inadequate training of members, limited capital of cooperatives, dependency to the government, pessimism? to the basics and financial matters in cooperatives, low information about principle and philosophy of cooperatives and? low communion sense. Findings of this survey showed that the degree of damages in all fields was moderate. Also presented finding shows a negative and significant relation between rate of problems in husbandry cooperative and age, education, salary, social participation, social status and amount of information access.