IMPACT OF COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENT POLICIES ON RURAL INDUSTRIALIZATION

1.1 Introduction

Rural Industrialization in rural communities appears to be beneficial in promoting rural development, when the individuals are able to recognize its significance in an appropriate manner. The policies, programs and strategies that are formulated with emphasis put upon the development of rural communities need to ensure that they should not impose any disadvantages, especially regarding the deprived, poverty stricken and economically weaker sections of the society. Rural development strategies whether they are technocratic, reformist or radical, envisages rural industrialization fromthe point of economic growth, regional balance and social equity.

As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Research hypothesis and questions, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.

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1.2 Background of Study

In every area of human endeavour, there are policies, rules and regulations that wide them. Also in every sector of the economy, both government and private business, there exist government policies that serve as a guiding principles or tools for regulations of the government against the performance of the operations of such sector.

The industrial revolution in Europe in the late eighteenth and all through the nineteenth century culminated in the formation of cooperative movement. The rise and expansion of the modern cooperatives movement has its roots in the far reaching economic, social and political changes which took place in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth century especially the industrial revolution and the liberation of the peasantry from the former feudalistic system.

However, a good government will seek the welfare of its citizens; this explains newly such policies are argued/ ordained. A good government policy is the government policy that has achieved a level of good or better like for its citizenry. Rural industrialization is synonymous with development. Industrial development usually starts with simple processing of agricultural commodities by hand later by well fashioned and highly sophisticated equipment. These days, industrial manufacturing is a sophisticated mechanized process carried out in small firms or in huge plants and factories.

In managing rural development, the basic role of management is to plan, organize, direct and control, it is our collective view that managers lead other than plan, manpower rather than direct pattern rather than organize and assess rather than control. The effectiveness of management arises from leadership effort towards the simultaneous creation of a cooperative and learning organization to facilitate the implementation support rural and national development organization survival and effective utilization of resources for the benefit of mankind.

Therefore, in Enugu State where the research was carried out, the activities that was conducted is to know the Impact of Cooperative Development and Government Policies on Rural Industrialization.

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1.3 Statement of Problems

These are some problems, which hampered rural industrialization in Nigeria such as:

1. High taxation in the operators and such business/ sector
2. Low level technology: Cooperative developments in its infancy, machines are foreign technology.
3. High social responsibility demands/law by the government and host commodities.
4. Poor infrastructural development: In cooperative society in Awgu has not developed significance to encourage rapid industrialization by infrastructures, we mean education health facilities, roads, electricity, telecommunication and postal services etc.
5. Inadequate capital: The amount of capital required per workers in rural industry is high and this is one of the main reasons why the take off into itself- sustained growth is such difficult operations as a result of cooperative development in Awgu Local Government Area still depend much on foreign investment for large industrial establishment.

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1.4 Aim and Objectives of Study

The aim of the study is to scrutinize the Impact of Cooperative Development and Government Policies on Rural Industrialization using any Selected Co-operative Societies in Awgu Local Government Area Enugu State as a case study. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out as follows:

1. To formulate policies that will help achieve industrialization on cooperative development in rural areas.
2. To find out how the government policies have impacted on cooperative development through rural industrialization.
3. To find out how the federal government (FG) through the federal department of cooperative improves the formation of agricultural cooperative and policies throughout the country.
4. To assess the services of rural industries improve industrialization through cooperative development.

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1.5 Research Questions

The study came up with research questions so as to be able to ascertain the above stated objectives. The specific research questions for the study are stated below as follows:

• Do you think that government policies have an impact on cooperative development through rural industrialization?
• Does the formulation of government policies helps to achieve industrialization on cooperative development?
• Can the services reentered by rural industries improve industrialization through cooperative development?
• How does the federal department through the federal government (FG)of cooperative improve on the formation of agricultural cooperative in the country?

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1.6 Research Hypothesis

In order to pursue the objective of this study, the following generalized statements have been designed to guide and aids in obtaining the result for the experiment to be conducted. For this work, the null hypothesis will be represented with H0 while the alternative hypothesis will be represented with hypothesis H1.

• H0: There is no significant service reentered by rural industries improves industrialization through cooperative development
• H1: There is a significant service reentered by rural industries improves industrialization through cooperative development

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1.7 Significance of Study

The finding of this study will be of a great benefit to:

1. Know the impact of their policies in rural industrialization through development
2. It will also reveal some factors affecting government policies on rural industrialization
3. It will also look into various services being offered by rural industries on cooperative development.
4. Finally, government should make sure that these policies are very useful to the public and individual.

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1.8 Scope of Study

The study focuses on the Impact of Cooperative Development and Government Policies on Rural Industrialization using any Selected Co-operative Societies in Awgu Local Government Area Enugu State as a case study.

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1.9 Limitations of the Study

During the course of this study, many things militated against its completion, some of which are:

1. Time Constraint: The time frame given to accomplish this project was very short due to school academic calendar and it was carried out under pressure which made the researcher not to implement some necessary features.
2. Research material: availability of research material is a major setback to the scope of the study.
3. Frequent power failure: This made the researcher append more money on fuel to ensure sustainable power.
4. Financial Constraint: Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet, questionnaire and interview).

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1.10 Definition of Terms

Government: Is a body vested with the power and authority for maintaining security, peace and stability by making and enforcing conventional or government is an agency or machine through which they will of the state is formulated expressed and attained. If there is no agency or a body to regulate peoples activities, the society will depreciate to what Hobbes Thomas called primitive society where like was “Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish and short.

Policies: A plan of action agreed or chosen to a political party.

Industrialization: It is transformation on processing of raw materials inputs into finished or new products.

Rural Industrialization: This is the process by which the rural areas are industrialized with factories e.g build of roads, build of manufacturing companies in the rural areas with hope of developing the rural area.