...Yang Ge; Yongbing Yang; Fujin Yi; Hao Hu; XiaoBai Xiong Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of surface ozone pollution on rice profit, output and variable inputs in China. Design/methodology/approach This study estimates the rice profit function using county-level...

...Huaiyu Wang; Xi Hu; Shuangquan Yang; Guoquan Xu Purpose The study aims to examine the impact of farmers’ actual adaptations on rice yields in the upland areas of Yunnan province, China. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs the simultaneous equations model with endogenous switching...

...Linhai Wu; Qipeng Hu; Jianhua Wang; Dian Zhu Purpose In China, a major grain producer, rice losses during harvest cannot be ignored. The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent of rice harvest losses in major grain-producing areas in China by a sampling survey, and to further analyze...

...Wen‐Ge Fu; Sizhong Sun; Zhang‐Yue Zhou Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the technical efficiency of wheat and paddy rice processing in China. Understanding the level of technical efficiency of food processing helps to decide whether efforts are warranted to improve this efficiency...

...Muhammad Khalid Bashir; Yasir Mehmood Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze how institutional credit affected the productivity of rice crop in District Lahore, Punjab Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach For this purpose, stratified random sampling technique was adopted to select...

...Dongmei Li; Mingming Liu; Guoyan Deng Purpose This paper aims to investigate farmers' willingness to adopt new rice varieties and the factors influencing their seed‐selection behaviors. Design/methodology/approach The Logit model was used to analyze farmers' willingness and the determinants...

...K. Ogundari; T.T. Amos; S.O. Ojo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the technical efficiency (TE) of the rainfed rice farming system in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach Special attention is directed to the construction of confidence interval (CI) for individual efficiency...

...Chung‐Huang Huang; Ping‐Yi Huang; Yuan‐Yun Ling Purpose In light of the global concern about the impact of trade liberalization on environment, this paper intends to measure, theoretically as well as empirically, the impact of freer rice trade on environmental quality in terms of chemical...