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A Study on Joint Sales and Joint Accounting Systems for Agricultural Products

Oh, Deokgyun

Published: January 1975 · Vol. 4 · pp. 7-24
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Korean Agricultural cooperative Federation does not execute cooperative marketing function freely. They are especially in active in a joint marketing project and active in a governmental project. The problems of the Korea Agricultural Cooperative Federation are dependence of organization and management, weakness of credit basis and autocracy of management. For effective agricultural cooperative marketing the organization of Korean Agricultural Cooperativs must be changed. A changed agricultural cooperative like this should introduce a pooling system which formalize a joint marketing system for effective cooperative marketing. The form of joint marketing must be systematic. Introduction of a pooliong system is a series of various marketing strategy. This system has not been implemented, but it is necessary for coexistence and coprosperity of farmers and should be functional for the practice of suitable price gaining. The first, producer`s cooperatives shall be the lower part of organization according to economic unit and kind of business. The second, excluded poor farmers can be merged into credit union. The third, producer`s cooperative shall be a central cooperative of agricultural cooperative organization. The fourth, newly founded Korean Agricultural Cooperative organizations must be an upward style organization. However, joint marketing systems must be propelled in spite of the many kinds of barriers.