Identifying critical factors influencing the safety and quality related behaviors of pig farmers in China

Yingqi, Zhong; Huang, Zuhui; Wu, Linhai

doi:10.1016/j.foodcont.2016.11.016

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“…While the direct distribution of farm goods to the consumer has been an organized human behavior since medieval times, the academic community has been slow to recognize this market's commercial and sociological importance today. However, the types of foods, farms, and consumers have changed (Zhong et al, 2017), and it is necessary to identify these trends and product positioning in order to maintain the competitiveness of products. Farm markets are very much a commercial business today, and are not just local farmers with the day's crop meeting the locals at an agreed upon convenient transaction destination (Oñederra-Aramend et al, 2018).…”

Section: Practical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Customer Experience with Organic Food: Global View

2018

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In recent years, organic food production has been rising dramatically both in the EU and the USA. Previous research on consumer perception of organic food has mainly employed questionnaire survey methods. However, in the current age of the social network phenomenon, social media could prove to be a rich source of data. Increasingly, consumers are using social networks to share personal attitudes and experiences. This shared content could inform us about consumer opinions. Social network analysis and related sentiment analysis could allow identification of consumers’ experience and feelings about organic food. We investigated the perception of organic food using 1,325,435 Instagram interactions by 313,883 users worldwide. The data were recorded between July 4, 2016, and April 19, 2017. We identified three major hashtag areas (healthy, vegan, and clean food). The sentiment analysis revealed three dominant areas related to the #organicfood hashtag (feelings, taste, and appearance). Cluster analysis extracted four areas, as follows: Healthy living, Vegetarian, vegan, and raw diets, Clean eating, and Active healthy living. The mentioned communities are significant and useful at identification of customers values for farmers organic food product management and marketing communication in terms of product positioning.

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Section: Practical Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2018

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“…There was a good separation among the three aging times. The first two principal components (PCs) Taste threshold of organic acids were obtained from Lou et al [28] , Zhong et al [35] and Weng [36] . -: No taste threshold parameters were found in previous report.…”

Section: Electronic Tonguementioning

confidence: 99%

Effect of postmortem aging time on flavor profile of stewed pork rib broth

Hou

Liu

2018

International Journal of Food Properties

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The objective of this study was to investigate changes in flavor components in broth prepared by pork ribs that were aged for 1 d, 3 d, and 7 d. The contents of free amino acids (FAAs), nucleic acid-related compounds, organic acids, and volatile compounds in broth were measured. The overall taste and aroma profiles were evaluated by electronic tongue, electronic nose, and sensory panelists. The results showed that the FAAs and succinic acid contents increased, while the 5ʹ-guanosine monophosphate, 5ʹ-inosine monophosphate, and 5ʹ-adenosine monophosphate contents decreased as the aging time increased. These changes led to the taste characteristics of broth being more savory. However, the results of gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, electronic nose, and sensory test all showed that there were no significant differences in aroma among the samples, where the main volatile compounds of broth were aldehydes, including hexanal, nonanal, octanal, heptanal, (Z)-2-heptanal, and (E)-2-decenal. Hence, postmortem aging affected the taste rather than the aroma of pork rib broth, and extending aging time can improve the taste of broth.

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“…Relative researches indicate that age, education level and farm size have impacts on farmers' safety producing behaviors to some degree (Baumgart-Getz et al 2012;Zhong et al 2013). Meanwhile, farmers' cognition, attitude and perception towards food safety, perception of expected income, attention to government regulations and satisfaction with veterinary services were found to have significant impacts on adoption intensity of food safety measures (Feng and Li 2007;Young and Hendrick 2010;Jin and Zhou 2011;Zhong et al 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In addition, farm size may influence smallholders' adoption of food safety measures (Kumar et al 2017). One study on the adoption of food safety measures by pig farmers of Anhui and Jiangsu found that, the influence was complex for different farming size, and relevant government departments should avoid blindly expanding the farming scale (Zhong et al 2017). While other studies found no significant relationship between the adoption of food safety measures and farm size (Kleinwechter and Grethe 2006;Asfaw et al 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

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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Identifying critical factors influencing the safety and quality related behaviors of pig farmers in China

Cited by 28 publications

References 17 publications

Customer Experience with Organic Food: Global View

Customer Experience with Organic Food: Global View

Effect of postmortem aging time on flavor profile of stewed pork rib broth

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

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