0023-6152

AA00697606

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0023-6152

AA00697606

The ineffective operation of hundreds of the collective agricultural cooperations in the Socialit Republic of Vietnam in the end of 1980s and early 1990s led to the establishment of many new style onsed after the new cooperative law enacted in 1997, nearly one century later than the Industrial Cooperative Law of Japan (1900)(Ogura 1979). The cooperation is very helpful and very important forevery small producer, especially for farmer, who is fragile in the market economy, where most individual producers and consumers are price-takers. In order to strengthen and further promote cooperative actiivities, the specific researchers into the existing agricultural cooperatives in general and dairy cooperations in particular are necessary. This study describes operation of Phudong Dairy Cooperative in Gialam, Hanoi and Tanxuan Dairy Cooperative in Hocmon, Hochiminh City, using a tool of cost-benefit analysis, 1) to make better understanding about the existing dairy cooperatives in Hanoi and Hochiminh City in terms of establishment process, organization, business activities effeciently and etc, 2) to analyze cooperative's role for dairy production in the study areas, 3) to highlight pros and cons of dairy cooperatives, and 4) to make possible recomendations to improve dairy cooperatives in Hanoi and HCM city. The study shows the dairy cooperatives are at so small scale and so poor activities that they can not attain the advantages of both "economy of scale" and "economy of scope". Through analyzing the reasons of above problems, the study suggests some recomendations to improve cooperative's operation in the study areas.