The aim of this project was to find out the role of Nkanu Women Co-operative Society Development, Nkanu Local Government Area in Enugu State. The subjects used for the study consisted of four hundred and ninety-nine (499) Women Co-operatives from six 96) registered women co-operatives in the same Local Government. Sample size was used in selecting these four hundred and ninety-nine (499) co-operators from the population of six registered Women Co-operators societies in the local government. Questionnaires and oral interview were the major instruments used for the study.
A total of 550 questionnaires were administered to registered members of the co-operatives societies. Out of this number 499 were completed and returned, one more questionnaire was administered to the buisional co-operative officer of Nkanu Local Government Area. He also stressed on the need for the cooperative officers in Nkanu locl govenemtn area to encouraging the women to invest more to productive ventures than collection of individual loans from the co-operatives. This will help provide employment opportunities for the members and the people of Nkanu in general.
1.1 Introduction
In this section, the Role of Women in Rural Development Through Co-Operative Societies 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.