corporate and cooperative farming

2. GROUP NO 9
• EHTISHAM TAJ 15-ARID-4927
• MARYAM BATOOL 15-ARID-5007
• HASSAN TARIQ 15-ARID-4964
• SABIR HUSSAIN 15-ARID-5164
• ADIL RIAZ 15-ARID-4873
• SAQLAIN AFZAL 15-ARID-5184
• AHMER TOUQEER 15-ARID-5027
• RIZWAN BILAL 15-ARID-5098
• MUHAMMAD SAQIB 15-ARID-5104
• LUQMAN ANWAR 15-ARID-4996

3. CO-OPERATIVE & CORPORATE FARMING

4. Co-operative farming

5. Co-operative farming
• What is co-operative farming?
• Objective of co-operative farming.
• Advantages and disadvantage of
co-operative farming.
• Status of co-operative farming in
Pakistan
• Status of co-operative farming in
world
Contents:

6. Co-operative farming
• Co-operative farming is a system, in which farmer
pool their resources to buy commodities such as
seed, fertilizers and services such as marketing for
cooperation in certain areas.
• Co-operative farming is a system of organized
agriculture established under an association owned
and operated by the farmers of the locality to have
mutual benefits.

7. Objective of co-operative farming
• The object of this organization is to help each other
in agriculture for their common interests. In other
word it is a co-operative among the farmers of
limited means.
• A family may be too small to justify the purchase of
tractor on any required farm machinery/equipment
for its own use, machinery pool purchases the
necessary equipment for joint use of all member as
needed.

8. Objective of co-operative farming
• It provide the mean of transportation for delivery of
farm produce to market. Small farm may not have
means, co-operative act as integrator, collecting out
put of small farmers deliver it in large quantities
through market channels.
• Finance facilities by co-operative banks/commercial
banks to individual farmer, bank may refuse or
charge high interest rate.

9. Objective of co-operative farming
• Motivation for the co-operative farming is
sometimes described as “overcoming the
curse of smallness”.

10. ADVANTAGES OF CO-OPERATIVE
FARMING
Following are the main advantages of
cooperative farming.
• Consolidation of Small Units of Land:
• Use of Machinery:
• Supply of Inputs:
• Fair Price of the Product:
• Guidance and Training:

11. Consolidation of Small Units of Land :
• Majority of the farmers keep the small units of
land. So they cannot employ the improved
methods of cultivation. Cooperative farming
enables them to consolidate their small units
of land for better utilization.

12. Use of Machinery
• A poor farmer cannot purchase the machinery
but a cooperative society can easily purchase
the various machines. The use of machines
will not only reduce the cost of production but
will increase the per acre yield.

13. Supply of Inputs
• A cooperative farming is in a better position to
get the adequate and timely supply of
essential agriculture inputs like fertilizer and
seeds.

14. Fair Price of the Product
• A co-operative farming society will bargain in
the market and will sell the product at
maximum price. The income of the individual
farmer will increase.

15. Guidance and Training
• A co-operative society guides the farmer to
increase their efficiency and production.

16. Disadvantages of Cooperative
Farming
• Lack of initiative and responsibility
• No increase in production
• Lack of trained personnel

17. Lack of initiative and responsibility
• Member of cooperative society work jointly
on a cooperative farm and we know, in joint
adventures, every body’s responsibility is no
body’s responsibility. This is especially so in
case of farming when the area of operation for
a worker is very large and supervision cannot
be very effective. One may not work devotedly
and then blame others for poor result.

18. No increase in production
• It has been argued that in big farm
productivity per man increase but not per acre
so in cooperative farming production is not
increased.

19. Lack of trained personnel
• Scheme of cooperative farming is succeed
only If the same are being implemented by
trained and efficient personal and hence there
is little chance of cooperative farming of being
successful.

20. Status of co-operative farming in
Pakistan
• The co-operative farming is not successful in
Pakistan because:
• There is lack of sense and feelings of cooperation
and brotherhood amongst the Pakistani farmers
due to their division in various casts, creed and
groups.
• Pakistani farmer are generally illiterate tied with
the apron of traditions and customs therefore,
they do not welcome any radical and constructive
changes.

21. World status of co-operative farming
• Co-operative farming has not succeeded in
most part of the world. If they have achieved
good results in countries like Israel, it was
because of special religious sentiments.

22. Corporate farming
• what is corporate farming?
• Objectives of corporate farming.
• Corporate farming ordinance (CFO)-
2001.
• Advantages and disadvantages of
corporate farming.
• Status of corporate farming in Pakistan.
• Conclusion of co-operative & corporate
farming.
Contents:

23. Corporate farming
• Corporate farming is a term used to describe the
business of agriculture or the practices of mega
corporations involved in food/crop production on
very large scale.
• It is a modern food industry concept include not
only farm itself but also entire chain of
agriculture related business, including seed
supply, agrochemicals, food processing,
machinery, storage, transportation, distribution.

24. Why we adopt corporate farming?
• As the small farmer of Pakistan are unable to
adapt new technologies and cannot afford the
costly input required to get optimum yield from
new crop varieties.
• The idea of corporate farming was to cultivate all
waste lands in Pakistan by bringing foreign
corporations, which would cultivate this land by
local, at attractive wages, train local people, pay
local taxes, develop roads and communication
networks, and bring prosperity at nominal profits
to themselves.

25. Objective of corporate farming
• To seek efficiency of production and increased
income/revenues by bringing together
agricultural production, processing and
marketing activities at one place under
management of a corporate entity.
• To improve agricultural productivity and
profitability through the use of latest
production technology.

26. Objective of corporate farming
• To produce high quality agricultural products
due to favorable resource base.

27. Advantages of corporate farming
• Reduced Agricultural Wastage
• Better Quality Yield
• New Technology use
• Boosting the Agricultural Sector

28. Reduced Agricultural Wastage
• Timely harvesting of crops helps avoid
wastage of food. This increases the yield
produced from the same input.

29. Better Quality Yield
• Corporates are in a better position to protect
crops through extensive use of pesticides. This
helps ensure minimal damage to crops and a
better quality yield. This farming also
encourages the employment of food
cultivation techniques that increase the
storage life of crops for exports.

30. New Technology
• Corporation gives the new technologies(tractor,
thresher, combine harvester etc.) to the farmer
which increase the yield of the crops.
• Increase in agricultural production through the
use of advanced technology has obviously
boosted the agro-scenario in developed and
developing economics.

31. Boosting the Agricultural Sector
• Industrialization of agriculture has helped in rapid production
of crops to meet the needs of the economy and revived the
importance of agriculture in the GDP. It will also contribute to
the development of exports.

32. Disadvantages of corporate farming
• Lower Profits for Farming Households
• Reduced Nutrition
• Higher Environmental Costs

33. Lower Profits for Farming Households
• As agribusinesses are widening their horizons in
agriculture, this has severely affected the livelihood
of many farmers. In economies thriving on this type
of farming, farmers face problems of reduced profits
or increased costs. This has largely affected the
sustainability of their occupation.

34. Reduced Nutrition
• It also compromises on the nutritional value of food by using
high amounts of insecticides and pesticides to prevent
damage to crops. They blindly use food additives, coloring
agents, chemicals and hormone injection to speed up the
process of crop maturity. Such genetically modified crops lack
nutritional content in comparison to organically grown
nutritious crops.

35. Higher Environmental Costs
• Mechanization of agriculture through the use of
technology has although increased the pace of all
production processes, it has made it difficult for the
environment to cope up with this speed. It interferes
with the natural and biological processes of the
environment. Moreover, corporate farming may soon
be a threat to the water bodies that will quickly dry up
from excess irrigation, polluting of fisheries by disposal
of chemical wastes, depletion of oxygen in the
atmosphere and increasing threat to all those engaged
in agriculture. It also pollutes the soil and is negligent
towards animal health welfare.

36. Status of corporate farming in
Pakistan
• China, Saudi Arabia & united Arab Emirates
are the countries which are interested in
corporate farming in Pakistan.
• The UAE, which imports 85 percent's of its
food, purchased 324,000 hectares of farmland
in the Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan province
in June 2008.

37. Status of corporate farming in
Pakistan
• Sindh, Baluchistan and Punjab have submitted
their lease terms to the BOI(BOARD OF
INVESTMENT).KPK is in the process of
finalizing the terms and conditions for offering
their land on long term basis to investors.

38. Corporate farming ordinance (CFO)-2001
• Corporate farming ordinance (CFO) was
passed in 2001 under which listed corporation
could lease land in the country for 99 years,
broken into two periods of 50 years and 49
years. Besides the government had identified
6.764 million acre of state land for leased to
different corporations.

39. Conclusion of co-operative farming
• Although, co-operative agriculture system has
certain challenges in socio-economic, if Govt.
empowers & strengthens the co-operative
institution it will offer enormous opportunities
of development in Agriculture sector.

40. Conclusion of corporate farming
• Corporate farming is good and it will help to
increase the productivity of the farms as
observed in various region because it is
backed & financed by big corporations.
• It will enhance the use of highly advanced
technology and will also develop our farm
market infrastructure and will also increase
agricultural products export.