A STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN MEIKTILA TOWNSHIP, MANDALAY REGION

Co-operatives play significant and important roles in economic development in many developing countries; but the experience has been mixed. Myanmar has had a relatively long history of Co-operative development, having marked its century celebration of Co-operatives in January 2005. Credit Co-operatives have therefore played a key role in broadening financial access to rural community. The objectives of the study are to identity the growth of co-operative societies in Meiktila Township and to analyse the performance of co-operative societies in Meiktila Township. Descriptive Method and cluster random sampling were used for studying. The growth was identified on the increasing numbers of co-operative societies, membership and share capitals. The performance of selected co-operative societies was analysed on the ratio of profit on capital, on working capital and on capital plus working capital with the ratio analysis. The growth of the co-operative society was found in increasing number of societies, membership and share capital. The development of co-operative can be found in which the development of the amount of capital, working capital on net profit. The co-operative societies in Meiktila Township had been developing within the study period from 2009-2018