Determinants of rural people to join cooperatives in Northern Ethiopia

Woldegebrial Zeweld Nugusse, Guido Van Huylenbroeck and Jeroen Buysse

International Journal of Social Economics, 2013, vol. 40, issue 12, 1094-1107

Abstract: Purpose - – There are many farmers in rural Ethiopia, who do not join cooperative societies, despite the different technical and financial supports from the government. This study thus aims to investigate the main factors that inspire rural people to join into the cooperatives. Design/methodology/approach - – The study collected relevant primary data from 400 sample households using a special household survey designed for this study. The study also reviewed different secondary materials. The collected data were analyzed using the two-samplet-test principle and cooperative participation probit model. Findings - – The finding of the binary choice model illustrates that information access, special skill, membership in rural association, frequency of attending a public meeting/workshop, household head education, credit access, training access, number of family members in school, distance to main market, availability of infrastructures, farmland ownership and farmland sizes are the major explanatory variables that have statistically significant (p-value

Keywords: Sustainable development; Agricultural economies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1108/IJSE-07-2012-0138

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