The importance of rural collective economic cooperatives mainly includes:
1. Promoting farmers' income: Rural collective economic cooperatives can increase farmers' income by coordinating land, manpower, capital, farm animals, farm tools and other resources, rationally planning land, building farmland water conservancy, popularizing agricultural mechanization, improving planting techniques and improving agricultural production efficiency.
2. Helping agricultural development: Rural collective economic cooperatives can concentrate farmers' land and resources, purchase agricultural means of production in a unified way, and adopt advanced management mode and production technology to improve agricultural production efficiency. In addition, cooperatives or people's communes will regularly hold technology promotion meetings, material exchange meetings, agricultural exhibitions, labor model conferences, etc. So as to exchange needed commodities, exchange experiences, help each other and promote agricultural development.
3. Improve the marketization level: Rural collective economic cooperatives can improve the marketization level of rural economy, enhance the docking ability with the market, and promote the sales of agricultural products and the development of rural economy by integrating resources, optimizing allocation and unified management.
4. Practice the socialist orientation: Rural collective economic cooperatives adhere to the socialist orientation, and realize farmers' prosperity and building a new socialist countryside through rational distribution of income and unified management.
The characteristics of rural collective economic cooperatives are:
1, giving priority to collective ownership of farmers' land. Rural collective economic cooperatives change farmers' land from individual ownership to collective ownership, produce, distribute and operate with collective strength, and pay dividends to collective members at the end of the year.
2. Implement the "one person, one vote" system. The highest decision-making body of rural collective economic cooperatives is the general meeting of members, and each member has equal voting rights. Matters involving members' interests are generally decided by the "one person, one vote" system.
3. Quantification of stocks and dividends. Rural collective economic cooperatives convert collective assets into shares quantitatively and distribute them to each member to make them become shareholders. Members pay dividends according to their shares, and cash in their income according to their share dividends at the end of the year.
4. The means of production and products are open. Rural collective economic cooperatives expand collective ownership to public ownership of means of production and products. Individual members share land and other means of production in the cooperative, pay dividends according to shares, and distribute products according to the quantity and quality of members' labor.
5, cooperative system as the foundation, the joint-stock system as a supplement. Rural collective economic cooperatives are based on cooperative system, members are free to join or voluntarily withdraw, and democratic management, mutual assistance and cooperation, benefit sharing and risk sharing are implemented. With the development of economy, some cooperatives, on the basis of adhering to the cooperative system, absorb social funds, implement joint-stock system and expand their economic strength.
6. the equity is closed. The shares of rural collective economic cooperatives are generally closed, and the shares of members cannot be inherited or sold to the outside world.
7. The organizational structure is hierarchical. Rural collective economic cooperatives generally have a three-level organizational structure of village, town and county, with hierarchical management and responsibility step by step.
8, the combination of government guidance and independent decision-making. The establishment and development of rural collective economic cooperatives should not only be guided by the government, but also respect farmers' independent decisions. The government can guide farmers to participate in the operation and management of cooperatives by formulating relevant policies and measures, but it must not interfere with the independent decision-making of cooperatives.
9. Implement democratic management. Rural collective economic cooperatives practice democratic management, with the general meeting of members as the highest authority, the board of directors as the executive body and the board of supervisors as the supervisory body. Members exercise their functions and powers and exercise supervision through members' congresses.
10, service member. Rural collective economic cooperatives aim at serving their members, and members can enjoy various services provided by cooperatives, such as technical training, information consultation, agricultural materials supply, marketing and so on.
To sum up, rural collective economic cooperatives are of great significance for increasing farmers' income, helping agricultural development, improving the level of marketization and realizing the socialist direction.
Legal basis:
"People's Republic of China (PRC) farmers' professional cooperatives law" third.
Farmers' professional cooperatives mainly serve their members and carry out one or more of the following businesses:
(1) purchasing and using agricultural means of production;
(two) the production, sale, processing, transportation, storage and other related services of agricultural products;
(three) the development and management of rural folk handicrafts and products, leisure agriculture and rural tourism resources;
(four) technology, information, facilities construction and business services related to agricultural production and operation.