The enormous contribution of agricultural cooperative societies to the rural world has not gone unnoticed [...]

the aim of this paper is to investigate the role of producer cooperatives (pcs) on rural development in fars, khorasan, semnan, golestan and hamadan provinces of iran in 2007. more specifically, this paper focuses on the economic aspects and social changes occurred in rural area concerning the cooperatives development. in order to measure quantitatively the effectiveness of economic and social ...

One of the central duties of rural production cooperatives is to promote the adoption and application of sustainable agricultural practices by farmers, which hinges on several factors. Therefore, the study intends to evaluate the factors influencing the application of sustainable agricultural practices by paddy farmers. The research population included from all includes all  paddy farmers as me...

S STEINMAUS*, C L ELMORE�, R J SMITH�, D DONALDSON§, E A WEBER§, J A RONCORONI� & P R M MILLER** *Department of Biological Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, �Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA, USA, �University of California Cooperative Extension, Sonoma County, Santa Rosa, CA, USA, §University of California Cooperative E...

This article provides an overview of the current Chinese health care system with particular emphasis on rural-urban differences. China's post-1978 economic reforms, although they improved general living standards, created some unintended consequences, as evidenced by the disintegration of the rural cooperative medical system and the sharp reduction in the number of "barefoot doctors", both of w...

The Cooperative Medical Scheme (CMS) was popular in rural China in the 1960s and 1970s, having garnered praise from the World Bank and World Health Organization as an unprecedented example of a successful health care model in a low-income developing country. However, the CMS almost collapsed in the 1980s. Based on its historical origins and main activities, we think the CMS functioned as a heal...