Farmer Cooperatives as an Agricultural Innovation System for Organizing and Changing Rural Land Use from Peasantry to Collective Action among Villagers in Iran

Authors : Farhood GOLMOHAMMADI

Pages : 44-59

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Publication Date : 2018-04-01

Article Type : Review Paper

Abstract :The development of cooperation in agrarian sector is one of the most important areas of agro-economic reform. Cooperative is a multi-dimensional association, which creates macro- and micro-economic capacities in the country. Its success is explained by the improved economic and social environment. Cooperative ensures the offset sources of financial markets and contributes to macro-economic stabilization in the market in terms of product quality, safety, traceability and stable fiscal and monetary balance; halting migration, development of agricultural infrastructure, job creation, inculcation of firm and stable production factors, and introduction of the protected agro-ecological and biological productions and innovative technologies. The basis for sustainable and balanced development of agricultural production and processing enterprises consists in their mutual integration. Within the frames of agricultural cooperation, the use of vertical integration as a specific form is an objective necessity at that development stage of production relations, when the urgency of the organic relationship between agricultural production and processing enterprises grows particularly. Supporting the agro-industrial integration within the framework of agricultural cooperatives is possible through the creation of the infrastructure of the intensive primary production and processing enterprises. In this article, state Farmer cooperatives insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(FC); as an agricultural innovation system insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(AIS); for organizing and changing rural land use from peasantry to collective action among villagers in Iran.
Keywords : Farmer cooperatives, Innovation system, Rural, Land use, Collective action, Iran