The Roles Of Cooperative Societies In Production And Marketing Of Cocoa In Jle-oluji/ Okeigbo Local Government Areas Of Ondo State

 ABSTRACTMulti-stage sampling procedure was used to select 120 respondents out of which 113 responded. The respondents were made up of 70 cocoa cooperators and 43 cocoa non-cooperators from five communities in the study area. A well designed questionnaire was used to collect data. The collected data were analyzed using frequency counts, percentages, means and I-test analysis. The study showed that that the mean ages of cooperators and non- cooperators were 58 years and 64 years respectively. The distributions of the respondents based on their age group indicate that majority 84.3% and 65.…