Research Reports
Activation of Community and Role of Cooperative
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AuthorKim, Geetae
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Publication Date2012.12.30
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In the rural regions whose residents are getting older and whose population is becoming smaller fast, the role and the demand of cooperative associations is getting greater for the activation of local economy and the maintenance of local community. So it is necessary to derive the policy consent by analyzing the role and the capacity of cooperative as a main subject to execute CB and as a middle supporting organization for it.
The purpose of this study is to arrange the activities of local cooperatives in relation with the community business to suggest the developmental direction of agricultural cooperatives participating in the businesses already and to provide local governments or rural community business operators with the necessary basic data for the collaborative relation with local cooperatives, exploring their role as a middle support organization.
As a result of case study on the community business of local cooperatives, it turned out that the level of their community business upbringing was still immature, especially in constructing and executing the independent business organizations. Their business types were mainly confined to 'the job creation for weak classes', 'the welfare for weak classes' and 'the production and circulation of agricultural products'. The community business range is necessary to expand diversely to the processing of local products, the local tourism, the organization and support of collaborative management system in each village, the production of special local products and the cultural projects as well as present works.
In order for the local cooperatives to take the role as a middle supporting organization for all the agricultural community businesses, it is necessary to effectively distribute diverse organizations and tasks into city/county cooperatives. That is, it seems better for the agricultrual policy support team of NH in city/county units to participate in the associated activities and establish the CB support plan in the dimension of city/county for the decision of NH supporting fields.
And the priority tasks of NH in the rural regions to activate the community businesses are ① Joint investment of residents, interested parties and local governance in the project, ② Construction of organic collaborative relation among central government, local government and local organizations, ③ Separate incorporation of community companies.
Researchers: Gee-Tae Kim
E-mail address: ccicoops@naver.com
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