Grain Marketing Performance Problems and Prospects of Cooperatives

Cooperatives especially, marketing cooperatives aim at assisting the agricultural producers to dispose agricultural products by providing efficient marketing system. These help farmers to sell their products through cooperatives directly in the fair market and relatively attractive, over all with loyalty, for instance fair weight and dependable marketing kept by cooperatives. Cooperatives improve member s income by assuring a better return for their product bargaining power and searching better market and fairness. Therefore, those farmers can overcome marketing problems, by organizing in agricultural cooperatives.

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Asfaw Temesgen was graduated from Hawassa University with B.Sc. in Plant Science and from Ambo University with MA degree in Cooperative Management. He was working in different position in Agricultural and Cooperative promotion offices and practitioner in the fields. Currently is working in Wollega University as a lecturer.