ABSTRACT
Agriculture is a science or practice of cultivating the land the keeping or breeding animal for food and for the promotion of the countries economy.
The importance of improving Agricultural production through Co-operative Society especially in Anambra State, is their source of earning food and money for their survival, both man and animal around. It is also provision of raw materials for the Agro-based Industries, which helps in the production facilities programmes.
Co-operative society is the coming together of different people in order to achieve a common goals and objectives of the society. They teamed up in Anambra State to cultivate and supply masses with food and also to feed themselves with their families.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE …………………………….. I
APPROVAL PAGE ……………………………... ii
DEDICATION ……………………………… iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ……………………………… iv
ABSTRACT ……………………………… v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ……………………………… vi
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION ………………………………. 1
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY ……………… 3
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM ……………… 4
1.3 PURPOSE /OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY ………. 5
1.4 SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY ….. 6
1.5 DEFINITION OF TERMS ………………………….. 7
REFERENCES …………………………………….. 10
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE …………… 11
2.1 DEFINITION OF AGRICULTURE …………… 12
2.2 IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE ……………. 12
2.3 AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES …. 13
2.4 TYPES OF ORGANISATIONAL FORMS OF AGRICUL-
TURAL CO-OPERATIVES AND HOW THEY IMPROVE
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION ………………………. 17
2.5 SERVICES PROVIDED BY AGRICULTURAL CO-
OPERATIVES ………………………………. 22
REFERENCES …………………………………………... 25
CHAPTER THREE
3.0 RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY ………….. 27
3.1 SOURCES OF DATA COLLECTION……………………… 27
3.2 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION ……………………… 28
3.3 RESEARCH POPULATION ………………………………. 30
3.4 SAMPLE SIZE …………………………………………… 30
3.5 METHOD OF DATA ANALYSIS ………………………….. 30
CHAPTER FOUR
4.0 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS, CONCLUSION AND
RECOMMENDATION ……………………………………… 32
4.1 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS …………………………………. 32
4.2 CONCLUSION ……………………………………….. 34
4.3 RECOMMENDATIONS ……………………………………. 36
BIBLIOGRAPHY ……………………………………………. 38
APPENDIX ……………………………………………. 39