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How Does the Farmer Cooperatives Operate in Yanbian Area?
SONG, Kebin; WANG, Xuyou; YANG, Xinglong; WANG, Shu - In: Asian Agricultural Research 05 (2013) 11
After six years of development, the number of farmer cooperatives in Yanbian area was increased from 72 in 2007 to 2600 in 2012. It has become an important part of local modern agricultural operation. Through the survey and research of current status of farmer cooperatives in Yanbian area, we...
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Farmer Cooperatives: Commercial Farmer Members and Use
Kraenzle, Charles A.; Wissman, Roger A.; Gray, Thomas W.; … - Rural Development Program, Department of Agriculture - 1989
Seventy-eight percent of commercial farmers were either members or nonmember patrons of marketing/farm supply cooperatives in 1986 compared with more than 76 percent in 1980. From 1980 to 1986, the percentage of commercial farmers who were members of cooperatives increased from 65 to 66 percent....
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Director-generals' human and social capital, and management performance of farmers' cooperatives : evidence from China's Fujian
Liu, Bin; Li, Zhongbin - In: International journal of management and economics 54 (2018) 2, pp. 149-165
human and social capitals of director-generals. Based on China's national conditions, we propose measures to improve …
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Core and Common Members in Chinese Farmer Cooperatives
Liang, Liang, Q.X.; Hendrikse, Hendrikse, G.W.J.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2012
This paper addresses the distinction between core members and common members in farmer cooperatives in China in terms … indicate that the life cycle and the governance characteristics of farmer cooperatives in China differ from cooperatives in the … West world. The genesis of cooperatives in China is due to entrepreneurial farmers and the government, rather than the …
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Impacts of farmer cooperative membership on household income and inequality : evidence from a household survey in China
Zou, Yang; Wang, Qingbin - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 10 (2022), pp. 1-17
cooperative may increase farmer income in rural China, empirically assesses the impacts of such membership on household income …, and examines how the membership may affect income inequality. Data from a large-scale survey of rural households in China … directly to the policy goal of reducing income inequality in rural China. …
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Value added and governance structure: Evidence from the pear industry in China's Zhejiang province
Liang, Qiao; Hendrikse, George W. J.; Huang, Zuhui - 2010
supply chain in Zhejiang province in China indicate that IOFs obtain a higher value added or value added rate than farmer …
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Can differences in benefits affect group investment into irrigation projects? Experimental evidence from Northern Ghana
Asiedu, Edward; Groß, Elena - 2017
Particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture is predominantly rain-fed and, therefore, prone to unstable weather conditions and less productive than in other regions of the world. Increasing the efficiency and sustainability of farmer groups and cooperatives is of primary importance to many...
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Can differences in benefits affect group investment into irrigation projects? : experimental evidence from Northern Ghana
Asiedu, Edward; Groß, Elena - 2017
Particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture is predominantly rain-fed and, therefore, prone to unstable weather conditions and less productive than in other regions of the world. Increasing the efficiency and sustainability of farmer groups and cooperatives is of primary importance to many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623655
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Agricultural Exports By Cooperatives
Hirsch, Donald E. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979
This study is the first to present a broad statistical picture of operations exporting cooperatives. Included are data pertaining to dollar volumes, destinations, and cooperative shares of total U.S. agricultural export volumes, phis information about marketing channels, foreign offices and...
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Statistics of Farmer Cooperatives, 1975-76
Richardson, Ralph M.; Click, Jane H. - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 1979
This report gives results of a 1975-76 survey of marketing, farm supply, and related service cooperatives in the United States. Total gross business volume for cooperatives amounted to $55.9 billion, while total net business amounted to $40.1 billion. Total number of cooperatives and cooperative...
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