This study is designed to show how cooperative societies can alleviate poverty in Arochukwu North Local Government Area, Abia State.
The sample consist of 25 farmer cooperative society members, 25 marketing cooperative society members, 25 credit and thrift cooperative society members and 25 consumer cooperative society members.
The main instrument used for collecting data was questionnaire. The sample was collected through random sampling techniques and statistical method used for data analysis in sample percentage.
1.1 Introduction
In this section, Cooperative as an Instrument for Poverty Alleviation is discussed, with relevant and recent citations. 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, limitation of the study and definition of terms.