Free Agricultural Lesson Note JSS 3

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The Free Agricultural Lesson Note JSS 3 are based on the current NERDC curriculum (UBE compliant)

This AGRICULTURE Lesson Notes CoversThe Following Topics

1. COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES
2. MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES
3. CHANNELS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE
4. AGRICULTURE IN STOCK EXCHANGE
5. EXPORT PROMOTION IN AGRICULTURE
6. FACTORS OF PRODUCTION
7. FARM RECORDS
8. BOOK KEEPING
9. FARM RECORDS AND ACCOUNT
10. AGRICULTURE IN STOCK EXCHANGE
11. AGRICULTURE IN STOCK EXCHANGE2
12. AGRICULTURE IN STOCK EXCHANGE3
13. EXPORT PROMOTION IN AGRICULTURE
14. EXAMPLES OF NIGERIA’S EXPORT PRODUCE
15. IMPORTANCE OF EXPORT PROMOTION
16. PLANTING

Sample note

Topic: Cooperative Societies

Cooperative Societies

An agricultural cooperative society may be defined as a business organization in which a group of individuals who have common interest agreed to pool their financial resources or to distribute goods and services for the purpose of making profit and to maintain the welfare of their members. Cooperative society is owned and controlled by members who may be from two persons to a number which has no maximum.

Objectives of Agricultural Cooperative Societies

1. To make goods and services available to the members at affordable prices
2. To encourage their members form the habit of saving money
3. To assist their members financially by giving them loans with low interest rate
4. To encourage and assist members to acquire assets themselves
5. To save members from embarrassingly high interest rate charged by banks before giving loans

Types of Agricultural Cooperatives

1. Consumer Cooperative Society – This society consists of people who pool their resources together in order to buy goods in bulk from producers. They avoid middlemen so as to get cheaper prices and then distribute to their members
2. Producers Cooperative Society – This is an association which consist of producers of similar products who have come together for the purpose of promoting the production and the sales of their products. Members of the society contribute money to buy or hire equipment at reduced rate to ease production
3. Produce Marketing Cooperative Society – They are mainly concerned with marketing of member’s products for their benefit. They engage in purchase, storage, transportation and marketing of agricultural produce like coffee, rubber, and food crops
4. Thrift and Credit Cooperative Society – Members are encouraged to save money together from their savings and money is lent to any member that is in need with little or no interest.
5. Farmers Multi-purpose Cooperative Society – This society combines many functions such as production, processing, storage, transportation, marketing and other service like credit for the benefits of their members.

Importance of Agricultural Cooperative Societies

1. They enable farmers to obtain loans at better terms and conditions than that of commercial banks
2. They improve the status of their members by helping them to acquire personal assets
3. Members can come together to establish a cooperative bank which will develop the economy
4. They encourage members to produce more. The surplus can be exported to earn foreign exchange for the country
5. They promote marketing of produce by carrying out marketing functions
6. They provide capital for economic development

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