Nigeria - National Cooperative Baseline Survey-2007, First round

ver 1.0 Basic raw data, obtained from data entry (before editing)

2008-07-25

A cooperative Division was established in the Department of Agriculture following the enactment of the Cooperative Societies Ordinance in 1935. Agricultural cooperatives were mostly promoted and registered to extend production credit, supply farm inputs and export quality produce to European industries. From 1954 to 1966, more agriculture cooperatives were registered to perform the same functions on behalf of Regional/Commodity Boards. In the civil post-war period (1970-79), a Cooperative Development Act was promulgated: Federal Ministry of Cooperative Development & Supply was established to promote consumer cooperatives as a mitigating instrument for the spiraling inflammatory threat. The policy thrust in the '80s focused on Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), abolition of the Commodity Boards and the National Supply Company. This rendered the Cooperative Movement (CM) prostrate.

In 1991, the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) in collaboration with World Bank (WB) evolves a new policy direction by carrying out sector review. In 2002, a comprehensive Cooperative Development Policy was formulated with the assistance of International Labour Organization (ILO). A draft policy implementation strategy which clearly defined roles for cooperatives in Agriculture & Rural Development and other primary sectors was prepared. The review recommended that cooperative policy should be comprehensive, friendly and participatory to facilitate bottom-up development. It further envisioned a cooperative sector that is strong, autonomous, operationally independent and economically viable, competing effectively in the private sector of the economy.

Sample survey data [ssd]

Cooperative Societies at State level