Application and Management of Farmer Professional Cooperative Demonstration Project

1. Contents and Channels of Project Application (1) Content of Project Application 1. Pilot Demonstration Project of Farmer Professional Cooperative Economic Organization: Main It is a project to carry out the introduction, testing and demonstration of new technologies and new varieties, as well as pilot projects and typical demonstrations for the development of farmers' professional cooperative economic organizations. 2. Agricultural industrialization construction projects: Industrialization construction is the only way to modernize agriculture. Product bases, product processing, product marketing, and logistics distribution can all be planned and declared by farmers' professional cooperatives. 3. Pollution-free agricultural product base construction project: The identification of the origin of the pollution-free base and the application for product certification will be led by farmers' professional cooperatives. Only farmer cooperatives can undertake a large amount of identification and certification application work. 4. Technological innovation projects: applied technology research and development are important projects implemented by farmer cooperatives in the future, and the science and technology department also recognizes this new carrier. 5. Logistics construction projects: Farmers’ professional cooperatives can apply for logistics and market construction projects. 6. Infrastructure construction projects: Rural infrastructure construction is the main content of the construction of a new socialist countryside, and farmers' professional cooperatives are the main carrier of the construction of a new socialist countryside. In the future, rural water conservancy construction, environmental improvement, and ecological construction will become the main interests of farmers' professional cooperatives. 7. Skills training projects: There are a large number of surplus labor resources in rural areas, and new labor forces are added every year. Participating in vocational skills training and strengthening rural human resource development will become important matters in the construction of new countryside. Farmers' professional cooperatives are an important carrier and bridge organization for organizing skills training. They assist relevant organizations in carrying out skills training and are projects that can be implemented universally. 8. Comprehensive agricultural development projects: The national financial comprehensive agricultural development projects cover a wide range of areas, including projects in the breeding industry and agricultural product processing industry. Farmers' professional cooperatives can actively apply for and directly implement this project. (2) Channels for project application 1. National Development and Reform Commission departments: Mainly include agricultural breeding and promotion projects, pest and disease monitoring projects, ecological environment comprehensive improvement projects, comprehensive grain production capacity protection projects, high-quality and efficient demonstration bases, infrastructure supporting projects, and agricultural product processing Park supporting projects and other support projects. 2. Financial Department: Mainly include supporting farmers’ professional cooperative economic organization projects, agricultural science and technology demonstration projects, comprehensive agricultural development projects, standard farmland construction projects, agricultural industrialization construction projects, etc. 3. Agricultural sector: Mainly include pilot demonstration projects of farmers’ professional cooperative economic organizations, agricultural industrialization construction projects, advantageous industrial belt base construction projects, ecological agriculture construction projects, and agricultural standardization demonstration base projects. 4. Forestry department: mainly including pilot construction demonstration projects of farmers’ forestry cooperative economic organizations, etc. 5. Water conservancy department: mainly includes water conservancy facility construction projects, etc. 6. Science and Technology Department: Mainly includes scientific and technological innovation, scientific and technological development, new technology application and promotion projects, etc. 2. Application conditions, procedures and support content for the Ministry of Agriculture’s demonstration projects (1) Project objectives The Ministry of Agriculture’s demonstration projects focus on supporting professional cooperatives such as grain, oil crops, pigs, dairy cows, poultry, and fruits and vegetables. (2) Application conditions Farmers' professional cooperative organizations applying for projects must meet the following conditions: 1. Farmers' professional cooperatives that have been registered with the industrial and commercial department at or above the county level for more than one year and have obtained the "Farmers' Professional Cooperative Legal Person Business License" will be given priority. 2. The number of members is more than 100, of which more than 80 are farmers. The industry engaged in should be in line with the Ministry of Agriculture’s regional layout plan of superior agricultural products and regional layout plan of characteristic agricultural products, which has led to the formation of local leading industries. The annual net income of members is more than 20% higher than the annual net income of local non-member farmers. 3. The operating mechanism is reasonable. It has standardized articles of association, sound organizational structure, perfect financial management and other systems; it has independent bank accounts and accounting books, and established member accounts; the proportion of distributable surplus returned to members in proportion to the transaction volume (amount) reaches more than 60%. If the industrial and commercial registration is a farmer's professional cooperative, the organization and operation shall comply with the relevant provisions of the Farmers' Professional Cooperative Law. 4. Strong service ability.

Priority support will be given to cooperatives with pollution-free agricultural products, green food, and organic food certification, production quality standards, registered trademarks, product packaging, and award-winning brands, or cooperatives that have been commended by the province or city. 9. Introduce new varieties, promote new technologies, and test new projects, and give priority to farmer cooperatives with great development potential. (4) Project construction content Project funds are used to support farmers' professional cooperatives in providing the following services to members: 1. Education and training on professional cooperation concepts and knowledge. 2. Carry out science, technology and marketing knowledge training, introduce new varieties, promote new technologies, and test new projects. 3. Purchase equipment for the production, processing, transportation, storage, preservation, and testing of agricultural products. 4. Apply for agricultural product quality standard certification, cultivate agricultural product brands, formulate production technical regulations, and build a superior agricultural product base. 5. Carry out market information services, build a marketing network, and organize product recommendations and marketing activities. 6. Improve service methods and improve service levels. (5) Project application requirements 1. The project unit must submit the unified 2009 project implementation plan and application documents, and truthfully fill in the "Basic Information Form of Farmer Professional Cooperatives" 2. Farmer professional cooperatives applying for the project must also submit Copies of the following materials: (1) Articles of association of the cooperative. (2) "Farmers' Professional Cooperative Legal Person Business License". (3) List of investment contributions by members registered in the industrial and commercial registration. (4) Registration certificate from the competent department of agriculture and agricultural economics. (5) Various management systems (including financial management systems). (6) Balance sheet and income distribution statement for 2008. (7) A resolution to declare the project with the approval of the general meeting of members (representatives) and signatures of all members (representatives).

(8) Famous and premium product certificates and brand certificates, organic food, green food, pollution-free agricultural products certificates and other certificates.

(9) Product registration trademark certificate approved by the industrial and commercial administration department.

(10) Relevant certificates obtained from provincial and municipal farmer professional cooperatives.

(11) Relevant documents related to local government’s support for the development of farmers’ professional cooperatives.

(12) "Basic Information Table of Farmers' Professional Cooperatives". (6) The preparation of the project book is based on the preparation format of the 2008 Shanxi Provincial Department of Agriculture Farmers' Professional Cooperative Project Demonstration Implementation Plan as an example. Cover (please do not bind it with a plastic cover): 2009××× Project Implementation Plan Project Application Unit (stamped) Project Responsible person, project preparer, contact person and phone number, preparation time 1. The project summary is filled in a table, which is a summary table of the project implementation plan. 2. The basis for project establishment includes: the reason for establishment of the project; the favorable conditions and feasibility of project construction. The reasons for project establishment can be discussed in terms of production conditions, technical strength, product quality, organizational system, sales network, trading venues, transportation conditions, etc. 3. Project plan design 1. Project objectives: Explain the goals to be achieved by implementing the project, which can be expressed in both qualitative and quantitative aspects. 2. Project implementation location and scale: Clarify the specific location and implementation scale of the project implementation. 3. Technical measures: Clearly define the main technical measures taken to implement the project. 4. Implement content and fund use plan. The specific contents of the preparation include: (1) Support links and funding subsidy standards. It is necessary to clarify the key links and subsidy standards for specific support in the implementation measures, the subsidy quota per unit project volume, and the subsidy basis. Subsidy standards for projects of the same type should be consistent. (2) Implementation content and fund use plan: The implementation content must be objective, specific, detailed and quantitative. It is necessary to list the items in detail and clarify the names, specifications, models, unit prices, origins, etc. of production materials such as instruments, equipment, and materials. The construction of non-productive facilities, such as offices, living quarters, etc., and working capital cannot be disbursed. 5. Total project investment and funding sources: Provincial and party funding arrangements for specific amounts. The allocation amount of city and county funds must be clear (in principle, there are no rigid requirements for city and county matching funds except for individual projects). 4. Organization and management measures In order to strengthen the management, inspection, and supervision of project implementation and ensure the smooth progress and successful completion of the project, measures must be formulated: including establishing an organization, implementing a leadership responsibility system, clarifying responsibilities, assigning responsibilities to people, and establishing special accounts. Manage funds and so on.

5. Project benefit evaluation refers to the economic, social and ecological benefits expected to be achieved after the project is implemented. Economic benefits: It can be evaluated from three aspects: increasing the income of cooperative members, driving surrounding farmers to become rich, and enhancing the economic strength of the cooperative. Specific data must be used to demonstrate it. Social benefits: analyzed from the aspects of promoting local regional industrial development, improving comprehensive agricultural production capacity, promoting rural economic prosperity, sustainable agricultural development and enhancing the awareness of cooperation. Ecological benefits: analyzed from the perspective of ecological environment improvement. For example: through the implementation of chemical-free projects, we can prevent pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and chemical hormone residues from harming the human body, ensuring the safety and health of consumers; we can reduce environmental pollution, improve the ecological environment, promote industrial upgrading, and promote industrial sustainability. sustainable development, etc. 4. The main contents of the inspection of the farmers' professional cooperative demonstration project: (1) Inspection of the basic situation of the cooperative 1. The name of the cooperative and its establishment time. 2. Articles of association of the cooperative. 3. Registration department and registered capital. 4. Registration certificate from the competent department of agriculture and agricultural economics. 5. Personal situation of the initiator or organizer. 6. Number of members and composition structure of members. 7. Scope of cooperative business services. 8. The cooperative’s internal asset ownership structure and management methods. 9. Cooperative income distribution relationship and distribution method. (2) Examine whether the cooperative is independent:

1. Whether the assets are independent.

2. Whether management decisions are independent.

3. Whether financial revenue and expenditure and accounting are independent.

4. Whether the account bookkeeping is independent, whether there is a general ledger of the cooperative and individual accounts of members.

5. Whether it is independent from village committees, township governments, state-owned enterprises and institutions, other companies and enterprises. (3) Examine the degree of standardization of the cooperative: 1. Whether the name matches what it does and whether it matches the nature of the registration. 2. Whether the internal asset share structure, management and rights relationships, and income distribution relationships are consistent with cooperative norms, and what are the differences. 3. Are the differences and adaptations made a kind of innovation and exploration, or are they in the name of cooperation but not in reality? (4) Examine the sustainable development of the cooperative 1. Whether the operation is successful. 2. Whether members receive benefits and whether surplus returns are implemented. 5. Project Fund Management Our province issued the "Interim Measures for the Fund Management of Farmer Professional Cooperative Projects" in the form of Jin Nong (Cai) Fa [2006] document. Article 8 of the Measures stipulates: Agricultural (agricultural economics) authorities at all levels must strengthen inspection, guidance, supervision and management of the use of project funds. The agriculture (agricultural economics) department of the county (city, district) where the project is located must promptly provide in-depth guidance to the project implementation unit, strengthen project management, and conduct auditing and supervision on the use of project funds. Municipal agriculture (agricultural economics) departments must conduct a comprehensive inspection of project implementation, correct problems and deviations in project implementation, and make rectifications within a time limit. Provincial departments should conduct focused spot checks on project implementation. Article 9 of the Measures stipulates that farmers' professional cooperative project funds shall not be used across years, and each project unit shall complete project implementation before the end of October each year. After the project implementation work is completed, a careful summary must be made. The county-level agricultural economics department shall complete the acceptance summary work before November 15 of each year, and form written materials and report the status of the project implementation units. Farmer cooperatives that fail to complete tasks within the project deadline or fail to pass acceptance inspections should make rectifications within a time limit. The municipal agricultural economics department will conduct a comprehensive re-inspection of the project implementation before the end of November. After the re-inspection, a summary of the project work and written materials from each project unit must be submitted to the Economic and Management Bureau of the Provincial Department of Agriculture. The Provincial Department of Agriculture organized random inspections and re-inspections in a timely manner and carefully summarized the project. Article 10 of the Measures stipulates: Project funds must adhere to the principle of earmarked funds, and no unit or department may withhold, embezzle or misappropriate, or spend them indiscriminately under any excuse. For disciplinary violations in the use of project funds, the minor case will be a notice of criticism or the city, county (city, district) farmer professional cooperative project application qualification for the next year will be cancelled; the serious case will be punished in accordance with the regulations on disciplinary penalties for financial fund violations, party discipline, political discipline and the " Article 53 of the Farmers' Professional Cooperatives Law stipulates that relevant units and individuals shall be held legally responsible in accordance with the law.