Haftom Mezgobo

Performance of Agricultural Cooperatives: and Their Implication on Members' Satisfaction: a Case of Kafta Humera Woreda. Western Zone of Tigray, Ethiopia Haftom Mezgobo

This well organized research project under the title of performance of agricultural cooperatives and their implication on members? satisfaction was examined the basic managerial, financial, marketing and social roles or functions of agricultural cooperatives. To come up with the insights (results, conclusion and recommendations) the research has used both qualitative and quantitative data from primary and secondary sources with appropriate analytical tools for each cooperative performance indicators such as document analysis for managerial performance, ratio analysis for financial performance, marketing margin and variance analysis for marketing performance and econometric analysis for social performances. Moreover, the secondary data were supported by first hand investigated, analyzed and tested data (descriptive and econometric models). Therefore, I strongly recommend that all academicians and practitioners in business field in general and cooperatives field in particular to purchase this convenient hand book from the highly regarded academic publisher LAP.