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

Year 2018, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 44 - 59, 01.04.2018

Farhood Golmohammadı

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 (FC) as an agricultural innovation
system (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

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