تعاون و کشاورزی (Sep 2010)
The Effective Factors Contributing to the Success of Fishery Cooperatives in Kermanshah Province
Abstract
Development of fishery cooperatives can lead to employment opportunities, create value added in fishery products, become a tourism attraction, provide food security and finally guarantee sustainable development of fishery industry. Therefore this study was conducted in 2010 with the objective of studying factors affecting the success of fishery cooperatives of Kermanshah Province. This is an applied study with prospective and perspective elements. The statistical population of this study is the members of active fishery cooperatives that were counted because of their limited numbers. The data were collected using questionnaires and their validity was confirmed by the professors and experts of cooperation and fishery department, managers of fishery cooperatives and fellow researchers, and their reliability was determined using pilot test and Cronbach Alpha to be 0.77. To measure the success, numerical taxonomy indexing method was used. The results of numerical taxonomy showed that the fishery cooperatives of Kermanshah in general are unsuccessful. The results of correlative analysis of Spearman and Pierson showed that there is a significant correlation between independent variables of the study (human and social aspects, legal, organizational and policy making circumstances, familiarity of the members with the principles of cooperation and economic factors) and success of the cooperative. Regression analysis also showed that there is a high correlation between dependent and independent variables and the determining coefficient is 0.51. Therefore 51% of the cooperatives success is thereby determined. The familiarity of members with principles of cooperation and the human and social factors are respectively the least and the most variables contributing to the success of cooperatives.
