Cooperative membership and farmers’ choice of marketing channels – Evidence from apple farmers in Shaanxi and Shandong Provinces, China

Hao, Jinghui; Bijman, Jos; Gardebroek, Cornelis; Heerink, Nico; Heijman, Wim; Huo, Xuexi

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.11.004

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“…Since the lack of capital often stonewalls agribusiness development initiatives, cooperation among farmers is an integral framework for the mobilization and reorganization of resources for economic and social stability [51][52][53]. Hence, further six (6) competency statements related to the establishment and management of farmers' cooperatives were developed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Information dissemination in these concepts is critical in building farmers' competitiveness [49], especially under conditions of market imperfection that deprive smallholder farmers of market price information [50]. Smallholder farmers with reduced market competence often suffer market segregation and fail to penetrate formal markets [52]. This further reduces market participation incentive [28], thereby undermining the shift towards intensive agribusiness farming.…”

Section: Competency Discrepancies Among Beef Cattle Farmersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Towards Intensive Co-operated Agribusiness: A Gender-Based Comparative Borich Needs Assessment Model Analysis of Beef Cattle Farmers in Eswatini

Dlamini

Huang

2020

Agriculture

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Beef cattle farming assumes a pivotal role in economic growth, household food security, and poverty alleviation in Eswatini. However, paucity of information dissemination, and competence are drawbacks that accord a steady annual increase in beef imports and a decline in exports. Therefore, the study conducted a gender-based comparative assessment of training needs for beef cattle farmers. Primary data were collected through personal interviews, guided by a reliability-tested questionnaire, from a sample of 397 farmers. The Borich Needs Assessment Model was adopted for data analysis and inferential statistics were employed to evaluate statistically significant differences between the gender groups. On a scale of 5, farmers were found to be less proficient (M = 1.891, SD = 0.529) in cattle production and agribusiness management practices. Female farmers were significantly less proficient than males (t = −6.004, p = 0.000). Statistically significant differences in mean weighted discrepancy scores (t = 5.280, p = 0.000) revealed a strong training need for females compared to men. It is recommended that dissemination of training information should be prioritized as follows: (1) agribusiness management concepts, (2) feed and feeding concepts, (3) cattle health concepts, (4) farmer-organizational concepts, (5) farm structures, and (6) breeding and rearing concepts.

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Section: Sampling and Data Collectionmentioning

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Section: Competency Discrepancies Among Beef Cattle Farmersmentioning

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Towards Intensive Co-operated Agribusiness: A Gender-Based Comparative Borich Needs Assessment Model Analysis of Beef Cattle Farmers in Eswatini

Dlamini

Huang

2020

Agriculture

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“…And joining cooperatives is beneficial to improving the welfare level of farmers, specifically, joining cooperatives can promote farmers' adoption of green technologies [10] . In addition, joining cooperatives can broaden the sales channels of agricultural products to increase farmers' income [11] . Other studies also point out the importance of cooperative membership in enhancing farmers income and eliminate poverty [12] .…”

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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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“…The apple ( Malus domestica Borkh), a typical climacteric fruit, is the most common fruit in the world. China has achieved 55% of global apple production . Fruit quality has decreased due to respiration, evaporation, cell‐wall degradation, and pathogen invasion during transportation and storage .…”

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“…China has achieved 55% of global apple production. 1 Fruit quality has decreased due to respiration, evaporation, cell-wall degradation, and pathogen invasion during transportation and storage. 2,3 Moreover, fruit are susceptible to postharvest pathogens such as Penicillium expansum, 4 Botrytis cinerea, 4,5 Alternaria alternata, and Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, 2 and the pathogens can produce toxins that are harmful to humans, animals, and plants.…”

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Changes in the sucrose metabolism in apple fruit following postharvest acibenzolar‐S‐methyl treatment

Wei

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J Sci Food Agric

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Cooperative membership and farmers’ choice of marketing channels – Evidence from apple farmers in Shaanxi and Shandong Provinces, China

Cited by 122 publications

References 43 publications

Towards Intensive Co-operated Agribusiness: A Gender-Based Comparative Borich Needs Assessment Model Analysis of Beef Cattle Farmers in Eswatini

Towards Intensive Co-operated Agribusiness: A Gender-Based Comparative Borich Needs Assessment Model Analysis of Beef Cattle Farmers in Eswatini

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

Changes in the sucrose metabolism in apple fruit following postharvest acibenzolar‐S‐methyl treatment

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