Aspects concerning researchon agricultural cooperation in the EU western european countries

Abstract

The topic of agricultural cooperation is frequentlyfound in the specialized literature. Given the experience of the market economy countries, the researchers have analized in depth the main elements of the cooperation in the agriculture of the EU Western European countries. The most important aspects studied relateto: the definition and classification of cooperatives, development stages and trends, operating principles and organizational structures, government support and self-financing, common issues and differences between cooperatives from different countries, strategies for obtaining new members and markets.