The Role of Eldom Agricultural Cooperative in Rural Development

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الملخص

The broad objective of this research is to enhance greening of the national capital throughadoption of tree planting in its different forms among which is forestry cooperative.Forestry cooperative of EL Dom Agricultural Cooperative (El Dom Village, north Aljillycity, Khartoum North) was selected as study case to highlight cooperative forestry. Twotypes of data were used in this research namely; primary and secondary data. Thesecondary data was collected from the archive of the Forests National Corporation(FNC), El Dom Agricultural Cooperative and relevant studies carried on the study area.The main findings of the research are; adoption of forestry cooperative interventioncontributed to diversification of sources of income where women and children becomeindulged in the activity of tree planting with reasonable incentive. The intervention offorestry cooperative in the study area is autonomous (locally driven), where some elitesproposed the activity and realized by the El Dom Agriculture Cooperation. Afterestablishment, (FNC) contributed to the success of the intervention through provision ofseedlings and technical know-how. The villagers perceive the benefits of the forestcooperative differently. Among the benefits of the forestry cooperative, as perceive bythe respondents, are; great diversification of agricultural crops (provision of improveseeds), diversification of income, provision of social services (maintenance of schoolsand health care centre), provision of simple agricultural tools, and consolidation of socialrelations among the villagers. These benefits coincide with the objective behind whichthe forestry cooperative was established. The respondents perceived the participation ofthe villagers differently, but the majority (56%) assessed the participation as fair.Women and children participation is limited to seedlings rearing and irrigation. TheVforestry cooperative is managed through elected committee consists of five members, andthe committee works under the umbrella of ELdoom Agricultural Cooperative.The main services and products provided by the forestry cooperative are; provision ofgrazing areas for the livestock, provision of round timber, and protection of agriculturalfields against wind erosion. The entire interviewed sample accentuated the sustainabilityof the activity and its expansion through inclusion of all bare areas within the agriculturalcooperative not suitable for conversion to agricultural land. There are some measures ofrisk and constraints confronting the activity of forestry cooperative, namely; lack ofgovernmental commitment towards the activity, lack of enough forestry experience(technical know-how), irregular supply of electricity, and low level of participation.There are no systematic extensionists' visits to the study area.The study arrived to sound conclusions, some of them are; there are some conditions forthe membership of forestry cooperative according to which the local people becomeentitled to join the cooperative. The main aim of the forestry cooperative is to maximizeincome generation from the association through addressing forestry activities, as well asthe protection of the agricultural lands against wind erosion and increasing agriculturalcrops productivity. The level of participation lag far beyond the ambition and thedrawbacks is represented in the assignment of the activities on certain group. Lack oftraining for sake of dissemination of information or transfer of technical know-how. Themain recommendations drawn are; the importance of governmental commitment to theactivity and provision of extension services on systematic basis.

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Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

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English

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اسم المصدر

The Role of Eldom Agricultural Cooperative in Rural Development

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إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

الامين سنجق محمد

الإعداد

شاهيناز هاشم عوض

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية