Grain is China’s most significant agricultural product, its output being the most watched indicator by government officials, traders and researchers inside and outside China. This paper looks into China’s grain production trends in the recent decade, both before and after...

Firstly, the basic core of judgment and analysis on the success and failure of modern sericultural industry development is introduced. The cocoon silk is the original reference to judge the success and failure of modern sericultural industry development. And the cocoon weight of per unit...

Traditional irrigation water management systems in China are increasingly replaced by user-based, participatory management through water users associations (WUAs) with the purpose to promote more efficient water use and higher farm incomes. Existing research shows that significant differences...

A growth accounting method is used to analyze the sources of growth in China's rice, wheat, corn and soybeans, the four most important crops in China's grain sector, during 1978-97. A large TFP contribution to growth in grain production is found in the period immediately following China's rural...

This statistical bulletin consists of 285 tables of agricultural statistics for the People's Republic of China. The statistics cover land use, population, labor force, gross value of agricultural output, agricultural investment, crop production, crop sown area, state procurement, livestock...

The authors analyze the existing problems and macroscopic influencing factors in grain production of Henan Province, and then carry out an empirical study on the correlation between grain production and eight influencing factors in Henan Province of China by using the gray correlation analysis...

We define the category of agricultural products, and introduce the demand standard of population for agricultural products. Furthermore, we adopt the mathematical model to forecast the future population of Zhengzhou City, as well as the demand of agricultural products, the logistics demand and...

The objective of this research is to estimate the economic impact of climate change on tea production in China. We use historical weather and production data from 1980 to 2011 to construct a yield response model from panel data that estimates the partial effect of specific weather factors on tea...

Economic reform in China helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production and resulted in significant changes in efficiency and productivity. This paper measures agricultural technical efficiency (TE) and total factor productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers...