Agricultural cooperative membership and technical efficiency of apple farmers in China: An analysis accounting for selectivity bias

Ma, Wanglin; Renwick, Alan; Yuan, Peng; Ratna, Nazmun N.

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.10.009

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“…The positive influence of farm size on adopting the overall milk safety measures and subset components (except the cow health component) was significant at the statistical level of 1%. This is supported by the findings of previous studies (e.g., Jin et al 2011;Kumar et al 2017;Ma et al 2018). However, we can only make a conclusion in the precondition that the biggest farm size in our study is 246.…”

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Factors affecting the adoption of on-farm milk safety measures in Northern China — An examination from the perspective of farm size and production type

Yang

Chen

Kong

2019

Journal of Integrative Agriculture

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The cow stock of smallholder farmers with less than 100 cows still accounted for nearly 50% of total cows in China. Since the milk scandal occurred in 2008, raw milk safety has become focus for the sound development of the Chinese dairy industry. Adoption of on-farm milk safety measures by smallholders is a key for ensuring milk safety, and these measures are largely voluntary in nature. The recent survey conducted in northern China reveals that an overall adoption rate of various milk safety measures by smallholders is close to 48% with wide variations across the dairy farmers. We employ the Poisson regression model to study the determinants of farmers' adoption of voluntary milk safety measures. Compared with backyard dairy farmers, dairy complex and scaled dairy farms adopted more milk safety measures. Moreover, the empirical result indicates that farmers' adoption of raw milk safety measures is positively affected by farm size. These findings suggest that the changing dairy production structure towards larger farms and away from backyard dairy farming prompts smallholder dairy farmers to adopt more raw milk safety measures. This lends some support to the role of recent policy initiatives towards larger farms and away from backyard dairy farming on increasing the farmers' milk safety practices and reducing on-farm incidence of milk safety.

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Factors affecting the adoption of on-farm milk safety measures in Northern China — An examination from the perspective of farm size and production type

Yang

Chen

Kong

2019

Journal of Integrative Agriculture

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“…Jak wykazują wcześniejsze badania, powierzchnia użytkowanej przez gospodarstwa ziemi była najważniejszym czynnikiem wpływającym na efektywność ekonomiczną i konkurencyjność gospodarstw rolnych (Sass, 2019). Chińskie badania wskazują, że na efektywność gospodarowania wpływa również zrzeszanie się rolników w organizacjach producenckich, co przekłada się na wzrost efektywności technicznej o kilka procent (Ma i in., 2018). Wskazuje się również, że w rolnictwie wydajność pracy rośnie wraz z rozwojem gospodarczym.…”

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Competitive position of apples and concentrated apple juice on foreign markets

Kraciński

Wicki

2020

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“…The study by Ma and Awudu(2016) shows that cooperative memberships exert a positive and significant effect on rural household welfare [7] . Ma et al(2018) has also attempted to explore the impact of cooperative membership on technical efficiency, and find that farmers who are members of cooperative membership have enhanced technical efficiency [8] , and cooperative memberships have significant and positive influence on farmers' propensity to adopt safe production practices [9] .…”

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Can Cooperation Memberships Ease Farmers’ Credit Constraints?—Evidence from Sichuan Province

Li¹,

Huang²,

Qiu³

2020

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2020)

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In developing countries, credit constraints are often perceived as one of the most important market frictions hampering agricultural productivity growth in rural areas. In this context, it is important to study the causes of farmers' credit constraints and the corresponding solutions. This paper examines the effects of farmer cooperatives in rural areas on income and poverty by applying Probit method on survey data from 8 counties in the main grain areas in Sichuan province, it finds that farmer cooperatives can significantly ease farmers' credit constraints. It also found that the use of Internet has significantly reduced the credit constraints of farmers. Therefore it is necessary to promote the healthy development of farmers' cooperatives.

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Agricultural cooperative membership and technical efficiency of apple farmers in China: An analysis accounting for selectivity bias

Cited by 178 publications

References 28 publications

Factors affecting the adoption of on-farm milk safety measures in Northern China — An examination from the perspective of farm size and production type

Factors affecting the adoption of on-farm milk safety measures in Northern China — An examination from the perspective of farm size and production type

Competitive position of apples and concentrated apple juice on foreign markets

Can Cooperation Memberships Ease Farmers’ Credit Constraints?—Evidence from Sichuan Province

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