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Unit 9: Small Groups Organizations

Notes
members, including men, women, children and elderly members. This Kibbutz has today
a variety of industries of different size economically.

“Rimon” is a food processing industry, and concentrates mainly on the production of
preserves from agriculture produce. It was the first industry in this Kibbutz.
Practically, it conforms to the model which we have presented earlier. This enterprise
employs some hundreds of workers; some of them are not members of the Kibbutz. In
this way the Kibbutz industry contributes to solving the problem of unemployment
among the rural population, who are not members of the Kibbutz. This enterprise has
a production turnover of more than $10 million annually.

“Matar” is a metal industry in the irrigation field. This enterprise is still in the agricultural
sphere, and sells irrigation fittings.
“Kol Gil” is a furniture industry building up house furniture in general, and children’
furniture in particular.
“Gavish Software” is a more recent industry. They sell software destined for agricultural
uses. They began with the development of software necessary to run their irrigation
needs as well as their needs for managing efficiently their dairy milking branch, and
their poultry branch. They succeeded, and decided to sell their products, to develop more.

“Matpera” is a small textile enterprise where clothes are produced for members of the
Kibbutz, and to the public at large. This enterprise has a special shopping center where
customers from nearby towns comes to shop. This shopping center sells to the public,
who like to purchase from the producers directly, and by doing so pay less, also the
furniture made in the Kibbutz.
“Bengali” is the most recent firm and is in effect a SSI. Only 4 members are working
there, producing oriental style Bamboo curtains for commercial and domestic uses.

We cannot end this survey without mentioning a small enterprise where the older
members of the Kibbutz are working from 1-4 hours a day, in this enterprise, assembling
electrical appliances. This enterprise gives employment but mainly occupation to the old
age members of the Kibbutz.
Kibbutz branches such as the kitchen, the laundry, financial services now sell their
services to non-members of the Kibbutz, and this phenomenon connects with our notion
of developing NAE (Non-Agricultural Employment) within the rural community, as a
solution to the underemployment existing among most rural population around the
world.
Questions:

1. Name the organization where clothes for members of the Kibbutz are produced.
2. How many members are working there in Bengali firm?

Self Assessment
Multiple choice questions:
5. The ................ by various promotional agencies involved highlighted the need for
collaborative efforts for reaping the desired developmental goals.
(a) consortia approach (b) government approach
(c) multifarious approach (d) None of these.

6. The major feature in the development of .............. enterprises in India is the conscious
policy and promotional support to the sector by the Government.

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