Research On Development Pattern Choice Of Hunan Province Tobacco Farmer Professional Cooperatives

As a new type of production structure, tobacco grower professional cooperative has creatively managed the relation between "integrate" and "part" during the procedure of tobacco production, based upon the persist in agricultural household contract management system. Moreover, the professional cooperative has dealt with the problem such as labor waste, technology fail and the complexity of technological procedure; also effectively promoted the advantages of tobacco production, for example, scale plant, intensive management, specialization and cooperation, and infomatization management.This paper demonstrates the development history of tobacco farmer professional cooperative firstly. Three main kind of professional cooperatives in Hunan province will be concretely stated and case study will be provided. Based on the method of SWOT, strengthen, weak, opportunity and threat faced by Hunan tobacco farmer professional cooperative will be analyzed. The critical factors influencing the cooperative model select has been found based upon the field investigation of100tobacco farmers from seven counties such as Ningxiang, Liuyang, Guiyang and so on. The result indicates that comprehensive service center could be the optimal type in current time, through the comparison of present three kind of cooperatives based on the analysis of cost-benefit and transaction cost. On that basis, tobacco production area in Hunan province has been divided into four different kinds according to the influencing factors. The certain tobacco production area needs to select one kind of professional cooperative. This paper proposes targeted suggestions to promote the development of tobacco farmer professional cooperatives in Hunan province.