<p>This dataset is in Microsoft Spreadsheet and seeks to: </p>
<p>i. analyse the socio-economic characteristics of cooperatives. </p>
<p>ii. determine the perceptions of farmers of the effectiveness of skills training programmes offered and identify possible challenges. </p>
<p>iii. identify changes in business orientation of co-operatives and farmers, after skills training, regarding entrepreneurial ship, farming practices, production levels, marketing practices, income and benefits to communities around co-operatives.</p>
<p>Accompanying the dataset are the codes in the codebook that are used to identify the various sets of data. </p>