Abstract:
Tanzania is a rural micro-agricultural country. Seventy four percent of the 34 million population
is rural and depends largely on small-scale agriculture. The state of technology in agriculture
is still poor, posing a major constraint against widening and deepening investment in that
sector. The predominance of the agricultural sector has historically been associated with
cooperative marketing organization. But apart from agro-marketing cooperatives, other types
of cooperatives emerged in the financial services, industrial production and consumer retail
and wholesale business sectors. The effectiveness of cooperatives in addressing poverty,
among other things, depends on education and training, directed to the members, the
committee, the staff, managers and cooperative promotion officers.
