Introduction
The major attraction of co-operative organisation especially in the developing areas and it€™s potentials for social change and improvement in the standard of living of people or well being of the population for example many government has devoted numerous resources for the encouragement and improvement of co-operative some time the evolvement of government is carried out to extend of thrift savings emphasis of co-operative from self-reliance of the organization, instead of depending on the government consequently, the objective of the movement consequently, the objective of the movement bring change in the economic development which Oji-River is one of them, members of the movement were benefiting through the provision of the movement were benefiting through the provision of the services, the instrument of social change and transformation which benefits the entire populace. Thus, the cooperative society has the ability or responsibility over social economic development of the entire economy. If such potentials are properly harness, the impact of this association will contribute immensely to the development of Oji-River local government area and this is the major focus of this particular research.
Background Of The Study
In developing country like Nigeria and some other countries they provides the social, economic needs of the people, self-help and self-reliance effort should be seen as the most effective source of economic development of the rural area are efficiently and effectual source of economic development of the area.
Through the communal effort, the people will pool their resources together for cooperative ventures, their values, social amenities could improve their quality of life or standard of living of the people. Self help effort improves the standard of living of the society. But self help effort could only yield positive result, if the community is blessed with good leadership, readily to sacrifice time, moral and energy to mobilize the people the people to embark on economic project.
Many communities in various state of Nigeria lack patriotic leadership to mobilize people so help themselves. Leadership is the most essential aspect of development of a nation, local and states, the society must have a good leadership quality that will enable them to coordinate the affairs of others rather than mobilizing people for self help project such as community development than looking to government for everything this the desire of the turnout.
Most of government in recent times, Nigeria is not an exception have recognized the important of co-operative as a potent means of production and also machineries for improvement of the standard of living countries like in Germany, Sweden, India etc few realize this objective earlier mention. The stages of development we should give cooperative much attention in Nigeria, government states and local have realized that cooperative are good agent of economic development.
However, these cooperative potential is an important instrument for social transformation still a lot of constraints and bottleneck, which ought to be looked into critical better economic result. It is a fact that intensity of cooperative involvement in the main sector of the economy has increased considerably. Government also credit agricultural facilities as a machineries of technical service to the economic development of rural farmers.
These agricultural cooperative also assist this rural farmers to make their produce to the best advantage and through the organisation aspect, these farmer learned the modern system of mechanization.
Primary cooperative societies in the rural area ensure steady supplied of goods from indigenous manufacturing companies. State apex consumer cooperative to ensure steady and adequate supply of essential goods to the rural people.
Having cooperative movement in rural communities were also in long run minimized the problems of house. It is quite impossible for them to provide housing accommodation for her entire population.
Marketing cooperative societies also play a vital role in the development in rural areas. They ensure that the bargain better and high price for the product of the farmers and not only that, but also endure proper sales of the produce of the farmers.
