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Farmer specialized cooperatives can unite farmers together and increase the farmers’ organization level. Cooperatives can also reduce the cost of production and transaction, promote the position of the farmers in the negotiation, improve the ability to withstand risks, and enhance the competitiveness in agriculture market. With the implement of "the Law of farmer specialized cooperatives in Zhejiang Province", the external environment becomes better, and farmer specialized cooperatives develop rapidly in Wenzhou. However, there still exist some problems that block the development, such as the farmers’low participation ratio, the weak comprehension and satisfaction to cooperatives. Therefore, it is both theoretical and practical significance to analyze the desire to participate and the satisfaction of farmers. It can help us to grasp the inherent law and reveal the restraining factors of the development of farmer specialized cooperatives; meanwhile, it can provide suggestions for government to the further development.By using the methods of sociology, economics and statistics, this paper tries to find the factors that affect the desire of participation and the degree of satisfactions by the farmers to cooperatives while analyzing the statistical and survey data of Wenzhou. This paper pays more attention to the method of the bivariate logistic regression model to get the results. There are many factors which affect the desire obviously, including the age and the education of the head of a household, the price fluctuation, the agricultural acreage, the degree of awareness to cooperatives, the degree of support by the government, the shortcutting of the funding and the technology, and the quality of services by the agro-technical branches. The satisfaction of participation depends on whether having a good leader or not, whether reducing the cost of capital goods or not, whether raising the prices of products or not. At the same time, the degree of the members’ degree of cognitive level and understanding the support policy, and the degree of supporting by the government should not be overlooked.According to the research of this paper, the following suggestions are given. Firstly, the government should take more resources in the education in rural areas and pay more attentions to the personal training. Secondly, the government should intensify publicize to strengthen the awareness of farmers to farmer specialized cooperatives. Thirdly, the government should assist farmer specialized cooperatives to improve the quality of services and introduce the building of farmer specialized cooperatives’ normative. Fourthly, the government should intensify the building of farmers’ specialized cooperatives. The last but not the least, the government should complete the policy of circulation of cultivated land to promote the flow of the cultivated land.
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