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China's agriculture and rural development and points out the new issues during the rural reform. The impact of the financial …Purpose – China's economic and social structure are changing quickly since the start of the new century and how to …/methodology/approach – The paper reviews the framework of China's rural policy since 2000 in the first section. Then, the impact of the financial …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to summarize the China Agricultural Economic Review ( CAER )'s second annual …/methodology/approach – The conference theme was “Agriculture and the Wealth of Nations”, aiming to explore the importance of agriculture as well … as the relationship and interaction between agriculture and the whole economy. The attendees from 14 countries discussed …
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the 2011 CAER‐IFPRI International Conference held under the theme “Is China entering a high food price era?” Design … the increases in the prices of industrial commodities. Thus, expert views remain divided on whether China is entering an …' curiosities for further studies into understanding the current level of food prices in China.  …
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Purpose – To obtain an understanding of the disposition of Chinese agriculture. Design/methodology/approach – By … applying econometric methods to make a narrow assessment on several productive factors in Chinese agriculture covering most of … society, which has so far practically made China tread a path different from that in western society. Research limitations …
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Purpose – The poor performance of public agricultural extension systems in developing countries engendered interest in pluralistic concepts of extension involving a variety of service providers. Within the reform agenda, modalities relying on private‐sector providers were perceived as a path...
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Reports on the first ever automatic milking system, known as VMS, or voluntary milking system, which has been unveiled on a farm in Sweden. The article goes on to outline the history and development of VMS, and its current operating processes.
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agriculture. Developing countries will face a major challenge over the next decade as they attempt to develop policies and …
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Accounting historians have long recognised accounting’s international scope but have typically concentrated their research endeavours on region‐ or country‐specific studies, or on investigating the diffusion of accounting ideas, techniques and institutions from one country to others. Much...
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agriculture and discusses the scheme as a means of improving the health and safety performance of the small enterprises typical of …
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This paper describes the field of biotechnology and likely advances in health care, agricultural and other applications in industry, environmental science and energy over the next 15 years. The intent is to give those without a background in the life sciences a perspective of the broad scope of...
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