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An Analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) for the Role of the Agricultural Cooperatives (A Case Study of New Valley Governorate)

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Cooperation is the most successful method to achieve the goals of economic and social development1 because it adheres to principles and rules that are not for profit and lead to raising the standard of living, increasing production and securing the services necessary for production, the agricultural cooperatives are scattered throughout the Republic, where there are about 5,907 agricultural cooperative associations. During 2019, it has about 5.1 million members, and agricultural credit associations rank first at the level of agricultural cooperatives with about 4,482 associations representing about 75.9% of the total number of cooperatives. Agriculture throughout the republic, with a membership of about 4.8 million members, representing about 85.1 percent of the total number of members of agricultural cooperatives nationwide. Despite the spread of cooperative societies throughout the Arab Republic of Egypt, their role in achieving economic development and promoting Egyptian farms, especially small farmers, is unclear and unspecified, in line with the problem, and in order to achieve the research objectives, preliminary data were relied upon for a field study conducted at the Dakhla Center in The New Valley Governorate because of the center's comparative advantage in terms of area and number of agricultural cooperatives, The Talented Moot and West Society was selected because of their high relative. The research recommendations: The importance of having information about the agricultural cooperative sector, its roles, and capabilities. The importance of interaction between the farmers' association members and the board of directors members. Activating the amended agricultural cooperation law. Providing production requirements. Interest in the cultivation of non-traditional crops. Not specifying the target crops and traders. The importance of having a role for agricultural cooperative societies in marketing agricultural crops. Paying attention to the guiding fields. Supporting farmers in setting up agricultural projects.

DOI

10.21608/ajar.2023.316092

Keywords

agriculture sector, economic development, cooperation

Volume

48

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1

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43347

Issue Date

2023-06-01

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2023-03-05

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2023-06-01

Page Start

346

Page End

358

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1110-1563

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2786-0051

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929

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Al-Azhar Journal of Agricultural Research

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An Analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) for the Role of the Agricultural Cooperatives (A Case Study of New Valley Governorate)

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24 Dec 2024