Cooperative Movements in Rural Areas in Contemporary Poland: A Brief Comparison of Farmers’ Attitudes of Members and Non-memebrs of Coooperatives

Nowak, Piotr; Jastrzębiec-Witowska, Anna; Gorlach, Krzysztof

doi:10.1515/eec-2016-0008

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“…In consequence, this leads to strengthening the competitive advantages of individual branches in the agricultural sector, both in terms of costs and prices and in terms of quality. Note that importance of cooperative movement to agricultural and rural development, through increasing economic and social activity in rural areas in Poland was previously proved by Nowak, Jastrzębiec-Witowska and Gorlach (2016), while collective initiatives in Hungarian agriculture were investigated by Kelemen and Megyesi (2007).…”

Section: Cooperative Groups Of Agricultural Producers In Polandmentioning

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Horizontal Integration in the Agricultural Sector as a Factor Increasing Its Competitiveness – Experience from Poland

Pawlak¹,

Kołodziejczak²,

Xie³

2019

Eastern European Countryside

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The aim of this article is to present the process of the development of horizontal integration in the agricultural sector in Poland in relation to the increase in its competitiveness. The article uses the data of the National Cooperative Council in Poland, The Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture, as well as Central Statistical Office in Poland. The process of formation of agricultural producer groups accelerated considerably when Poland joined the EU, especially due to the possibility to receive support from public funds. In 2013, at the end of the first full financial framework 2007–2013, there were almost 1300 agricultural producer groups in Poland. The most of them functioned in central, western and north-western regions, where larger and specialised farms are prevalent and where farmers understand the need for joint activity and want to gain a possibility to generate both technological and cost and price advantages and to increase the profitability of production. So far Polish producers of cereals, oilseeds, pigs and poultry have been relatively best organised. In 2017 about 45% of all registered groups of agricultural producers had the status of cooperatives. In pigs and beef cattle production the share of cooperatives in the total number of registered groups was even higher and amounted to 70% and 83%, respectively. Such groups are capable of helping farmers to solve the problems of how to sell their products, to ensure the appropriate quality of those products and to increase the cost-effectiveness of production. Cooperatives are often involved in social, educational and cultural activities provided to their members and rural community. Therefore, it can be said that very presence of cooperatives favours the development of agriculture in a particular region and in the entire country.

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Section: Cooperative Groups Of Agricultural Producers In Polandmentioning

confidence: 98%

Horizontal Integration in the Agricultural Sector as a Factor Increasing Its Competitiveness – Experience from Poland

Pawlak¹,

Kołodziejczak²,

Xie³

2019

Eastern European Countryside

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Empirical Analysis on the Performance of Rural Credit Cooperative’s Shareholding Reform Based on the Rationale of Isomorphic Incentive Compatibility

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Rural economic development helps reduce the income inequality in China. Existing studies show the positive effects of rural reforms, however, whether the rural credit cooperative’s shareholding reform promotes rural economic development and whether effects are exerted through the synergism between agricultural producers and rural financial institutions remain unclear yet. Employing the rationale of isomorphic incentive compatibility from system science, we analyze the necessity and influencing conduit of rural credit cooperative’s shareholding reform theoretically. Analysis shows that only the financial services from rural commercial banks can promote the modernized production, and thus the synergism between them drives rural economic development. Then we make empirical analysis on the effect with a Chinese provincial sample. Comparing to provinces with lower reform progress, the provinces with greater reform progress are influenced more prominently by this reform. Applying coupling coordination degree model, the coordination between agricultural production and rural banking development shows obvious increase, especially after the formal implementation of shareholding reform on rural credit cooperative. Empirical results indicate that this synergism plays positive roles in promoting agricultural growth and reducing the urban–rural income gap. In addition, these effects are more pronounced after the formal implementation of shareholding reform.

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Cooperative Movements in Rural Areas in Contemporary Poland: A Brief Comparison of Farmers’ Attitudes of Members and Non-memebrs of Coooperatives

Cited by 2 publications

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Horizontal Integration in the Agricultural Sector as a Factor Increasing Its Competitiveness – Experience from Poland

Horizontal Integration in the Agricultural Sector as a Factor Increasing Its Competitiveness – Experience from Poland

Empirical Analysis on the Performance of Rural Credit Cooperative’s Shareholding Reform Based on the Rationale of Isomorphic Incentive Compatibility

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