Journal Article

Factors Affecting the Capital of Agricultural Cooperative Associations in Egypt

Abdel Fatah, Mohamed Osman, Abdel Motalib, Mohamad Abdel Hafez, Abdel Hady, Asmahan Hussein, Makled, Salah Mahmoud Saied

2022

Overview

Agricultural cooperatives play an important role in the development of the agricultural sector. However, these associations face many problems that have had a negative impact on their role in Egyptian agricultural development. The research problem focused on the deterioration of the role of agricultural cooperative societies in the agricultural development of Egypt. What are the determinants of the capital of agricultural cooperative societies due to its importance in the agricultural development of Egypt, and the relative importance of the numbers of agricultural cooperative societies during the period (2016-2020), There for, the agricultural credit cooperative societies came in first place which average number of them reached 4350, it means 74.3% from the all number of agricultural cooperative societies, which is about 5851.association during the study period, while the agricultural cooperative societies for agrarian reform came in second place, with an average number of 761 societies, it means about 13% from the agricultural cooperative societies, and the agricultural cooperative societies for reclaimed lands came in third place, amounting to 637 societies, representing about 10.9% of the average number of agricultural cooperative societies. finally, agricultural cooperative societies for water resources came in the fourth and final place, with an average number of 101 societies, representing about 1.7% of the total number of agricultural cooperative societies, 5851 societies during the study period. The results of the study indicated that the factors affecting the development of capital in the cooperative societies for agricultural credit during the study period (2000-2020) were that the number of local cooperative societies for agricultural credit increased that by increasing each of the number of local cooperative societies for agricultural credit one thousand and the number of contributing members of local cooperative societies for agricultural credit one million members , the capital will increase estimated at about 1588.9 million pounds and 70.9 million pounds, respectively. It is also noted that the local cooperative societies for agricultural credit increased by one million acres. Million pounds, and this is not consistent with economic logic.

• Publisher: الجمعية المصرية للإقتصاد الزراعي
• Subject: الائتمان الزراعي / التنمية الزراعية / الجمعيات التعاونية / مصر