The effect of cooperative membership on agricultural technology adoption in Sichuan, China

Zhang, Shemei; Sun, Zhanli; Ma, Wanglin; Valentinov, Vladislav

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2019.101334

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“…In particular, IRRs are obtained by exponentiating the count model regression coefficients, that is IRR = exp (coefficient) (Erdogdu 2013; Zhang et al . 2019). For comparison, we also estimated the impact of Internet use on SAP adoption using a Poisson regression model and presented the coefficients and IRR results in the last two columns of Table 4.…”

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“…2019; Zhang et al . 2019), and farmers with cooperative membership may choose not to use other channels for information acquisition. Thus, we expect membership in agricultural cooperatives negatively affects rural farmers’ decision to use the Internet.…”

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“…Because the interpretation of coefficients estimated from a count model regression is not straightforward, we calculate and present the incidence rate ratios (IRRs) in the fourth column of Table 4 to ease our interpretation. In particular, IRRs are obtained by exponentiating the count model regression coefficients, that is IRR = exp (coefficient) (Erdogdu 2013;Zhang et al 2019). 1 For comparison, we also estimated the impact of Internet use on SAP adoption using a Poisson regression model and presented the coefficients and IRR results in the last two columns of Table 4.…”

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Relatively little is known about the association between Internet use and environmentally-friendly agricultural innovation adoption. To fill this void, this study examines the impact of Internet use on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) and their heterogeneous effects on farm income and household income. Unlike previous studies that analyse the dichotomous decision of agricultural innovation adoption, this study captures the number of SAPs adopted. We apply both endogenous-treatment Poisson regression model and unconditional quantile regression model to analyse unique farm-level data collected from China. The empirical results show that Internet use exerts a positive and statistically significant impact on the number of SAPs adopted, and the joint effects of Internet use and SAP adoption on farm income and household income are heterogeneous. In particular, we show that Internet use has a larger impact at the upper tail of household income but it has no significant impact on farm income. SAP adoption is negatively associated with farm income and household income across the selected quantiles.

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“…This leads to higher transaction costs, which may negatively affect famers' participation in credit markets. Transaction costs caused by information asymmetry can be economized by farmer cooperatives [10] , because members can share their own information to each other. Therefore, the participation of farmers in cooperatives can reduce the transaction costs caused by the problem of information asymmetry.…”

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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] .…”

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

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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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Multiple roles of agricultural cooperatives in improving farm technical efficiency: A case study of rural Gansu, China

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The establishment of agricultural cooperatives is widely viewed as an institutional arrangement to remove constraints that prevent smallholders from accessing profitable business opportunities in agriculture. Agricultural cooperatives in China offer a wide range of services within the framework of contract farming and vertical integration. This study empirically examines the multiple roles of China's cooperatives in improving farm production efficiency and conserving the agricultural environment. Considering that agricultural cooperatives' services can be broadly divided into biological and machinery services, we specify a stochastic frontier production function in a special form, called the separated Cobb–Douglas. The empirical results present clear evidence that Chinese agricultural cooperatives play essential roles in increasing biochemical technical efficiency and protecting the agroecological environment. However, the involvement of cooperatives as vertical integrators is demonstrated to have a detrimental effect on biochemical technical efficiency. The pressing challenge for agricultural cooperative development in China is to accommodate the conflicting consequences that their entry into farming has on biochemical and machinery technical efficiencies. This has strong policy implications, although our study has certain limitations in terms of the narrow focus on a single specific region. [EconLit Citations: C26, Q12, Q13, Q15, Q18].

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The effect of cooperative membership on agricultural technology adoption in Sichuan, China

Cited by 144 publications

References 42 publications

Internet Use, Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Rural Incomes: Evidence from China

Internet Use, Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Rural Incomes: Evidence from China

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

Multiple roles of agricultural cooperatives in improving farm technical efficiency: A case study of rural Gansu, China

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