Comparison of Social Capital Components of the Productive Cooperative's Members and Farmers of Non-Member of the Productive Cooperatives in Rural Areas, Parsabad County

In fact, rural production cooperatives are people-oriented organizations which can meet the abnormalities arising from the existence of small, dispersed and unsuitable fragments of land and also meets the defeciencies of the production devices. In addition, this cooperatives can rescue small farmers from bankruptcy danger. And strengthen the spirit of mutual aid between them. The aim of this article is comparative study of the social – capital components of productive cooperative members and non-member agricultures of such cooperatives in rural areas. The current research is of applied type and its method is analytical- descriptive one. The research tool is questionare and the statistical society of this research includes the member villagers of productive cooperative and non member villagers residing in the areas covered by the productive cooperatives in parsabad township. It should be mentioned that Parsabad is one of the townships of Ardebil province at the northest part of Iran.This city is the largest city in Moghan area and is the central city. Based on cocharan formula, the appropriate sample number for this research was obtained 145 people and for improving the accuracy and validity of findings, the number of members was increased to 150. Also 150 farmers of non members of productive copoperatives were selected. The independant variabls of this research, includes the social capital and the dependant variable is membership in the productive cooperations. In addition, in this research, the content validity of the instrument was established using a panel of colleague cooperators and experts of agricultural Jihad organization Also for recognition of quantitative perpetuity of questionare, Cronbachs alpha coefficient and SPSS software have been used. In this research, the alpa value of different parts of the research questionare was calculated 0.70 up to 0.81. The main findings of this studies showed that, exept one component there exists a direct and significant relationship between all the social capital components with forming productive cooperatives in rural areas of Parsabad.