Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the growth and regional disparities of China's dairy market since 1980, examine urban consumer demand for three major dairy products (fluid milk, yogurt, and milk powder), analyze China's import patterns of major dairy products since 1995, and...

Purpose – The paper aims to measure the effects of market liberalization on Chinese farmers' crop planting decisions. Design/methodology/approach – The effects are measured using a censored, two-stage, least-square regression. Findings – The results show that the effects of market...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of socio-economic variables on households' food demand. This paper derived the indirect utility function in terms of expenditure and price through the use of nonlinear demand quadratic almost ideal demand system (QUAIDS) model to...