Most of the population of Nigeria is rural and agriculture is the mainstay of the impoverished people’s livelihood. This paper estimated the determinants of rural poverty in Nigeria using the Tobit regression model. Through the multistage sampling technique, primary data were obtained from 150 rural farming households using a questionnaire. The Result of Tobit regression analysis shows that inc...

in this study, farm level technical efficiency (te) and its determinants were investigated. a stochastic cobb-douglas (cd) production frontier was used to provide estimates of input-oriented te for a sample of 100 rain fed farms in two palestinian governorates. empirical findings showed that the estimated te of the farms in the pooled sample ranged from 35.7 to 95.6%, with a mean value of 72.2%...

Membership in agricultural cooperatives may influence intra-household decisions regarding the division of household labor. However, linkages between cooperative membership and labor allocation remain unexplored. To fill this gap, we examine impact on off-farm work couples engaged farming, using data collected from 595 banana farmers China. The recursive bivariate probit model endogenous-treatme...

the performance of women agribusiness cooperatives in oyo state, nigeria was assessed in this study. the study employed a multi-stage sampling technique to select 6 women cooperative groups (aggregating to 175 individuals); 36 individual women; and 4 institutions across 6 lgas in two agricultural zones of the state. findings show that majority (55.6%) of the respondents belong to processing org...

This study examines the impact of cooperative membership on rural income generation. It also analyzes factors influencing participation in cooperatives among households Southwest, Nigeria. The was designed to account for selection bias into organizations. Rural household survey data were used and estimates based both Probit model non-parametric propensity score matching method. findings show th...

The number of agricultural cooperatives increased quickly in Ethiopia since the 1990s. While many papers studied impact membership Ethiopian cooperatives, not much is known on their performance. This study takes a cooperative-level perspective which unique an African context. It compares economic performance proxied by sales revenue and profit wide range northern Ethiopia. Data were collected f...

The existence of cooperative organizations in today’s business environment, particularly agriculture, signals their continued ability to provide value member owners. However, due largely data limitations, we know very little about the monetary ownership held by members and how changes across differing characteristics. Through a discrete choice experiment with more than 200 dairy farmers United ...

cooperation in iran has a long precedent but for the first time after the islamic revolution became a foundation in iranian constitutional law and was defined as a protect ional approach. as a point of view in codification of iranian constitutional act (1979) the cooperation recognized on its bases and values that has based in the world. so it is in compliance with islamic standards. it is a wa...