Contributing to the growing interest in understanding the impact of farmer cooperatives on rural household welfare, we add new empirical evidence to the current literature and debate. In particular, this study investigates the impact of farmer cooperatives on sales per hectare of land and crop diversification, which have been largely overlooked. We apply the Propensity Score Matching method to the Cambodia Inter-Censal Agricultural Survey 2019, with its large sample size of 16,000 small-scale producers. Additionally, we perform a robustness check to ensure our findings are unbiased. Results indicate that Cambodian farmers perceive the cooperatives as a risk-sharing mechanism or knowledge-sharing platform that provides technical know-how to cope with natural calamities. Propensity Score Matching (PSM) outputs show a significantly positive impact of participating in the cooperatives on sales and the crop diversification index. This study thus advocates increasing technical support and implementing policies by the government to help cooperatives thrive and expand.
In the late nineteenth century sugarcane farmer associations emerged in Australia. Representing genuinely independent small farmers such associations were a rarity elsewhere. Such associations as they appeared in Australia were a peripheral phenomenon in a geographical context, but nevertheless manifestations of a worldwide movement aimed at improving agriculture. Outside Australia sugar was grown on plantations by a land owning elite or by large corporate companies. The first to form associations were planters. They were formed when planters realized that they could avert crisis if they petitioned government with a unified voice. In contrast, in Australia, (after a brief plantation era) sugarcane was grown by independent small farmers whose cane was crushed at a central mill, often cooperatively owned. This was a unique development. Associations formed by small independent growers identified themselves as distinct from the planters and united by different interests. They became an effective lobbying force. Agricultural associative behaviour has been elitist and accordingly scholarship of agricultural associations has been undertaken through a top-down approach. As the small sugarcane associations disappeared once the legislative associations assumed their roles, scholarship has largely ignored their existence. This paper uses sugar growing in tropical north Queensland to illuminate a unique peripheral vision.
Many factors drive the success of a food security program. One technical factor that strongly supports agricultural productivity is the availability of irrigation water suitable for crop needs. In this case, irrigation cannot be separated from Irrigation Services, Agricultural Services, and HIPPA. Initially, village irrigation management was carried out by an irrigation inspector named ulu-ulu, who was at the lowest level in the village organizational structure. In its implementation, village irrigation management faced many obstacles, causing gaps in water distribution. The purpose of this study is to analyze and describe the management of agricultural irrigation by HIPPA. This study uses qualitative methods, and the informants are determined using purposive techniques. From this study, it was found that many factors cause ineffectiveness in irrigation management. One of them is weak coordination in the HIPPA organization. It is even worse with the emergence of money politics in water distribution among farmers and water supervisors. Keywords: Irrigation management, Water User Farmer Association, farmer, irrigation service. Referensi: Cresswell, John W. 2016. Research Design Pendekatan Metode Kualitatif, Kuantitatif dan Campuran. Yogyakarta : Pustaka Pelajar. Duverger, Maurice.1998.Sosiologi Politik.Jakarta:RajaGrafindo Persada. E, Suzanne. 1996. Irigasi di Indonesia. Jakarta: Pustaka LP3ES. Ferystiawan, Mirza. 2010. Intervensi Penyuluh Pertanian Dalam Pemberdayaan Sosial Ekonomi Gabungan Kelompok Tani Di Asembagus.Universitas Jember. Skripsi . Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Politk. Jayanti,Nur.2006. Konflik antar Petani Pengguna Air Irigasi Sawah Pertanian di Desa Wongsorejo Kecamatan Wongsorejo Kabupaten Banyuwangi. Universitas Jember. Skripsi. Fakultas Ilmu Sosial dan Politik. Miles dan Hubeerman, A.M. 2014. Analisis Data Kualitatif. Bandung: PT Remaja Rosdakarya. Pasandaran, Efendi.1988.Irigasi Kelembagaan dan Ekonomi. Jakarta:PT.Gramedia. Pedoman Penulisan Karya Ilmiah.2017. Jember University. Pusposutardjo, Suprodjo.2001. Pengembagan Irigasi Usaha Tani Berkelanjutan dan Gerakan Hemat Air. Jakarta: Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi Departemen Pendidikan Nasional. Soekanto,Soerjono.2012.Sosiologi Suatu Pengantar. Jakarta: Rajawali Pers. Suratiyah,Ken. 2015. Ilmu Usaha Tani. Jakarta: Penebar Swadaya. Susan,Novri. 2009. Pengantar Sosiologi Konflik. Jakarta : Kencana. Syahyuti. 2006. Konsep Penting dalam Pembangunan dan pertanian. Jakarta Selatan: PT. Bina Rena Pariwara. Syahyuti, dkk. 2014. Organisasi Kesejahteraan Petani. Bogor : IPB Press. Yuswadi, Hary. 2005. Melawan Demi Kesejahteraan: Bentuk Perlawanan Petani Terhadap Kebijakan Pembangunan Pertanian. Jember: Kompyawisda Jatim. --- . 2001. Pengembangan Irigasi Usaha Tani Berkelanjutan. Yogyakarta: Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi Departemen Pendidikan Nasional
The revitalization of farmer organizations has become the central paradigm in agricultural development. In Indonesia, increasing farmer participation in farmer groups, associations and cooperatives is the strategy to revitalize farmer organizations. This study aimed to determine the factors influencing farmers' participation in farmer groups, associations and cooperatives. This study employed data from the Sugarcane and Tobacco Plantation Farm Household Survey in 2014, consisting of 8,831 (70.73%) sugarcane farmers and 3,645 (29.27%) tobacco farmers. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify the factors contributing to farmers' participation in each organization. The results showed that harvest area, access to extension and contract farming positively affect farmers' participation in organizations. Farmers' age and education positively affect their participation in associations and cooperatives but do not significantly affect their group participation. Land tenure has an ununiform effect on farmer participation in each organization. Tenant farmers are less likely to participate in farmer groups and cooperatives, but they tend to participate in associations. Meanwhile, the owner farmers are less likely to join cooperatives. Government support positively influences farmer group participation, shows a negative effect on participation in associations and has a non-significant effect on participation in cooperatives. Finally, farmers' wealth gives a positive effect on their participation in cooperatives, a negative effect on their participation in associations and a non-significant effect on farmer groups. These results depict that farmer groups are more inclusive than cooperatives and associations.
The abolishment of the milk quota, increasing fluctuation in milk prices and further economic and emotional factors resulted in the so called dairy conflict. The paper focuses specifically on the conflict between the German Farmers' Association and the Federal Dairy Farmers Association resulting in two milk delivery strikes as culmination points within the conflict. Objectives of the study were to analyze the main conflict indicators, the conflict pattern and the process of change in the agricultural association structure in Germany. The basic methodology is a qualitative research approach. Main data collection methods are in-depth interviews and qualitative document analysis. Results show a high cross-linking between the abolishment of the milk quota and identified emotional key drivers. Structural consequences of this conflict can be seen in the reduction of political influence of the German Farmers' Association.
With this study, the organization and the activities of four leading farmer association established in Thrace Region of Turkey in 1986, in the center of Tekirdag and in Muratli, Corlu and Malkara districts of Tekirdag, were discussed as the result of the common studies between Turkish Agricultural Chamber Union (TZOB) and German agriculture unit (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft, DLG), German Agricultural Technical Cooperation (Gesellschaft für Technische Zuzammenarbeit, GTZ) that the German Agricultural Ministry (Bundes Ministerium für Wirtschaffliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung, BMZ) commission. The results according to the observation are determined every year by the management committee in leading farmer associations and the other organs. In a very democratic method and environment although the managements in Turkey have a hierarchy order. The highest organ of the association is the general committee (members). The management committee gives importance to the information flow between farmer adviser and the members and the appointment of the farmer adviser and the income-expense of the association and auto control is so powerful in the structure of the association. The most important problem is the leavie of the farmer adviser specialized in the communication with the farmers with the leader farmer associations for the attractive salary offers of the private sectors. For this reason, employing new farmer adviser to leader farmer associations, at least two years affect the publishing activities of the leader farmers negatively. Application of the individual and group training by only the leader farmer associations among the farmer associations in Turkey and at the same time the encouragement of the member farmers to the congress and conferences, growing new products, making of the trial and demonstrations successfully in spite of the current conditions in Turkey play an important role in the extension of the reforms of the leader farmer project in the rural region.
