...Di Zeng; Xinjian Chen; Haoqi Meng Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the mechanisms through which agricultural cooperatives promote sustainable technology adoption among farmers in rural China, addressing a key gap in the existing literature. Design/methodology/approach...

... performance across regions in China. It particularly focuses on the moderating role of National High-Tech Zones (NHTZs, which serve as innovation hubs offering infrastructure and policy incentives) in strengthening the impact of CBEC on agricultural exports. Design/methodology/approach Using panel data...

... from the futures market. Design/methodology/approach With weekly settlement price of January corn futures from the second week of January 2009 to the fourth week of April 2020 in China, we assume that corn futures price follows fractional Brownian motion, and apply an improved Black model...

... preferences affect the decision of farmers to utilize storage facilities? This question is important because it is not clear if and how risk preferences affect the tradeoff between consuming today and saving for tomorrow, especially for farmers in developing countries. China Supermarkets Risk attitudes...

.... Although scholars have raised awareness of the development of DHEs in China, there has been little investigation on DHEs in the Chinese wine business. Based on the existing theoretical background on the concept of DHEs, this study aims to identify the structure and operating system of a DHE in the Chinese...

... purpose, an in-depth multiple case study is performed. In this study, three cases in short food supply chain (SFSC) in China are selected, and they are all e-commerce agribusiness companies. They adopted common ways to build up, maintain and reinforce consumers’ trust. Findings It is revealed...

... Province, China. The data were analyzed using multivariate regression. Findings The study suggests two significant predictors of organic tea purchase intentions: perceiving organic tea as a healthier alternative to non-organic tea; perceiving the purchase of organic tea as a status symbol. Younger...

... collection efforts. Farmers are now integrated into rapidly expanding agrifood value chains. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the walnut value chain originating in Yunnan (the dominant producer of walnuts in China). The authors are especially interested in the position of small-scale farmers...

...Assem Abu Hatab Purpose A growing number of studies indicate that the export growth of China’s textiles poses serious threats to many developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to empirically measure the extent to which the export growth of Chinese textiles has come at the expense...

... than definitive. Originality/value Relative to the large attention on the Chinese dairy industry with regard to food safety and industry development, the impacts of dairy specialisation on smallholders especially in western China have been overlooked. The case highlights several issues relevant...

... is utilized to discuss some of the major food safety incidents in China and potential solutions are explored. Findings – The paper finds that food safety issues arise from problems of asymmetric information which leads to the profit seeking behaviour of agents distorting rather than enhancing...

...Ying Xiong; Zhong Chen Lv; Ya Ding Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand farmers’ moral hazard in safe farming in China and quantify the degree to which farmers’ moral hazard is prevented by incentive or constraint means or their combinations. Design/methodology/approach...

...Nicholas E. Rada; Chenggang Wang; Lijian Qin Purpose The present article presents a first‐look into the hired‐labor market in Chinese household farms using data from a national household survey conducted by the Research Center for the Rural Economy (RCRE) at China's Ministry of Agriculture. More...

...Wenge Fu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the development of the processed feed industry in China through the lens of one of its most successful and earliest entrants, the Hope Group's “New Hope” enterprise. With the feed industry in China now facing a transition phase, the paper...

...Calum G. Turvey; Guangwen He; Rong Kong; Jiujie Ma; Patrick Meagher Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the farm and rural credit system in China. To do this the authors use the so‐called “7 Cs” of credit (these include: Credit, Character, Capacity, Capital, Condition...