“…Cooperatives arose in China in the 1980s and began to grow rapidly after the implementation of the “Law on Farmer Specialized Cooperatives” in 2007, which created new ways for farmers to do business with their buyers (Chen & Scott, ). Cooperatives are expected to provide individual farmers with high‐quality input, market information, and assistance with new technologies to help them address problems of small‐scale production challenges, food safety, pesticide residue testing, and supervision during production (Song, Qi, Zhang, & Vernooy, ; Zheng, Wang, & Awokuse, ). Cooperatives can be effective organization carriers for achieving quality and safe production in agriculture.…”