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federation were visited by a multi-disciplinary team of three scientists each for a period of four days per State from 24^th August and 10^th September 2008 through the national Agricultural extension and Research Liaison Services. The study showed that in all the States of federation, the Agricultural Development Programmes were becoming shadows of their past as little or no activities are going on in those areas.

Very poor funding of extension workers prevailed in almost all the States visited. The researchers recommended the establishment and funding of an Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Agency (AERDA) in all the state of the federation and a specific agency at the Federal level that will coordinate budgets, findings, international leakages and quality assurance of the services rendered by the State AERDA is to enhance agricultural production in Nigeria.

forms is the most important explanatory principle in biology and extremely powerful in many other fields. Such success has reinforced the notion that life is in all respects a war of each against all, where every individual has to look out for himself, that your gain is my loss but Kropotkin had observed that the species that survived where the individuals cooperated , that “mutual aid” (Cooperation) was found at all levels of existence .

Mead (1937), in his studies of living primitive societies, equally found that cooperative social organization leads to higher affluence not found in a solely cooperative social organization. In a political-historical analysis of civilizations, Eisler (1988) found variations between the social dominators model, in which societal exchange is carried out in hierarchical and competitive relationships and the social participation model, in which exchange are made through cooperative relationships.

Eisler’s framework is included in the collection of women studies and provides an explanation of male dominated versus male-female share power societies through history. Proponents’ of socio-biology, in a different approach, view cooperation as a genetic survival trait. In the socio-biological paradigm, cooperation is found among relatives because extended family groups survived over individuals who did not cooperate with family and tribal members.

In socio-biology, cooperation is also considered an evolved trait among humans and other life forms (Nowak, May and Sigmund,1995).

These approaches to cooperation are varied; they place cooperation in historical and historical contexts, at macro and micro social settings, and as genetic and learned behaviors. This research approach specifically relies on what Campbell (1975) termed as a socio-cultural explanation for cooperation. His framework lies on variation, selection and retention of behaviors over time. In essence, variation provides the mutations or traits of behavior that provide for the adaptation of groups to new

situations. Selection involves the process of evaluating one variation over another and selecting the better version.

Retention involves the process of accumulation behaviors and values in a social system. Campbell’s theory functions at the social system level because individuals eventually die, but institutions and conducts are retained within social systems.

Campbell further argued that urban social complexity has come about through social evolution rather than through socio-biological evolution.

Cooperation is also described by Wikipedia (nd) as the process by which the components of a system work together to achieve the global properties. In other words, individual components which appear to be “selfish” and independent work together to create a highly complex, greater-than-the-sum-of-its-part system.

Examples can be found all around us. The components in a cell work together to keep it living. Cells work together and communicate to produce multi-cellular organisms.

Organism form food chains and ecosystems. People form families, tribes, ethnics and nations. Neurons create thought and consciousness. Atoms cooperate in a simple way, by combining to make up molecules. Understanding the mechanisms that creates cooperating agents in a system is one of the most important and least well understood phenomena in nature, though there has not been a lack of effort.

Individual action on behalf of a larger system may be coerced (forced), voluntary (freely chosen),or even unintentional and consequently individuals and groups might act in concert even though they have almost nothing in common as regards interests or goals. Examples of that can be found in market trade, military wars, families, workplaces, schools and prisons and more generally any institution or organization of which individuals are part (out of own choice by law or forced).

RELEVANCE OF THE THEORY TO THE STUDY

This study focuses on the effect of cooperative societies to agricultural production. It is within the premise of the expectations that cooperative arrangements offer the best approach to rural agriculture. Cooperation theory offers enough provisions in explaining the reasons why people come together to tackle socio-economic tasks that would seem insurmountable if not impossible for an individual to accomplish. We can thus deduce from the theory that cooperative institutions are not mere ad hoc arrangements that wind up once tasks are accomplish. Indeed, the antecedents of cooperative societies, starting from the start of modern cooperative movement via the equitable society of Rochdale Pioneers, to founding of International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) have shown the cooperative as veritable institution of change and development.

The implication of the above is that cooperatives are expected to always strive to bring about socio-economic change for which they are established and are expected to maximally bring the cooperative advantage to bear on the development of agricultural production in the study area.

CHAPTER THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY 3.1 Research Design

The research method adopted in this study is the survey method. Thus, this research study, therefore, has been designed to enable the use of personal observation, interviews and questionnaires to gather accurate information. It will as well afford the opportunity of testing and sampling, so as to test validity of results obtained from respondents.