Acta Agriculturae Zhejiangensis ›› 2021, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (6): 1117-1127.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2021.06.18

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Evaluation on standardization of farmers’ professional cooperatives: evidence from fruit and vegetable cooperatives in Sichuan

CHEN Jiping(), LIU Guoqiang, LIU Yuying, FU Xinhong*()   

  1. College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
  • Received:2020-08-27 Online:2021-06-25 Published:2021-06-25
  • Contact: FU Xinhong

Abstract:

It is of great significance to investigate the standardization level of farmers’ professional cooperatives (cooperatives for short) to improve the development quality of cooperatives. Based on this, 99 fruit and vegetable cooperatives in Sichuan were selected as examples in the present study. The theoretical index system for evaluation on standardization of cooperatives was constructed from five dimensions of organizational structure, production and operation services, management system, financial management and distribution system, and the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was introduced to comprehensively evaluate the standardization level of cooperatives. The results showed that the standardization level of the sample cooperatives was generally low, and more than half of the sample cooperatives got a score below the average. In different dimensions, the score of standardization of organizational structure, management system, financial management, production and operation services and distribution system decreased in sequence. Through group analogy, it was found that the cooperatives established earlier, with larger membership, non-village cadres as the chairman and higher annual turnover exhibited relatively higher score of the comprehensive evaluation on standardization level.

Key words: cooperatives, analytic hierarchy process, alienation, shell cooperatives

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