In Cooperatives, evaluation of cooperatives performance is a tool for enhancing the performance of the societies and improving overall efficiency of the cooperatives and its management. This study was conducted with the objective of assessing the factors influencing evaluation on the performance of primary agricultural Cooperative societies with reference to study area. To conduct the study, from the total forty five primary agricultural cooperative societies, four primary agricultural cooperative societies were selected by purposive sampling technique. Population size consists of 985 individual members. The sample involves 169 of the cooperatives members which forms the target population of the study. Both primary and secondary data was used. The data collected by the use of questionnaires, focus group discussion and key informant interview and then descriptive analysis and inferential analysis was used for quantitative data. The result of this study reveals that, evaluation of the cooperatives performance was influenced by; educational level, skill of management committee, knowledge of management committee, training, experience, income, dividend, capital, share capital, interest and reserve fund. The binary logistic model results indicated that educational level, skill of management committee, knowledge of management committee, experience, dividend, share capital and interest were significantly influence evaluation on the performance of selected primary agricultural cooperatives societies. Finally the study suggested that more emphasis should be given to evaluation on the performance of cooperatives societies to ensure sustainability, continuity and better structures within the evaluation units as well as the overall structure of the cooperative society to enhance the development of cooperatives.

Keywords : Agricultural Cooperative, Binary Logistic, Evaluation, Performance Of Cooperatives, Primary Cooperatives, Study Area.