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Abstract
Georgia is a country with high agricultural potential, which is not fully utilized due to the
deterioration of conditions for agriculture after the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Because
of insufficient access to input supply, credits and markets, the productivity of the Georgian
agriculture is very low. The small agricultural land surfaces lead, moreover, to high transaction
costs with regard to the marketing of agricultural products that each farmer sells individually on
local markets. Service cooperatives have been identified as a suitable institution for sustainable
agricultural development. Despite their advantages they are not widespread in Georgia. This
article analyses on the basis of an empirical study (n=406) attitudes of Georgian farmers
towards cooperatives and identifies prospects for their implementation.