Purpose – The Chinese Government relies heavily on increasing farming scale to address the new challenges facing China … resulting to debates over large-scale farming in China. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and highlight the debate over … China’s on-going large-scale farming. Design/methodology/approach – This paper contributes to the policy debates over large …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential economic impacts of China’s insect-resistant GM maize and …-resistant GM maize increases crop yield and reduces both pesticide and labor inputs. In national terms, China can increase its GDP … by USD8.6 billion and maize self-sufficiency by about 2 percent given normal insect pest attacks if China commercializes …

Purpose The need for a universal rural pension system has been heightened by demographic changes in rural China …, China’s Government introduced the New Rural Social Pension Program (NRSPP) in 2009, a voluntary and highly subsidized … authors examine whether the NRSPP affects the labor supply of the elderly population in China. Design …

Purpose – At the center of apple production province in China, how to increase apple per unit yield and to improve …

decisions of group borrowers by highlighting the case of rural credit cooperatives (RCCs) in Guizhou province in Southwest China … conditions in rural China. Mechanisms such as threatening to withhold defaulters' future loans from RCCs failed to work. In … an attempt to empirically explore the determinants of repayment performance in group lending programs in China. The …

and waste treatment is developed for a pilot pig farm in China in order to simulate the economic and environmental effects …

from Shanxi Province, China to test the occurrence of eight biases, while demonstrating measures to reduce the risk of ten …

Purpose – China and India have made significant strides in transforming their agricultural sectors to cut hunger and …/methodology/approach – This paper applies different analytical framework to address different research questions using data since 1980. China … with annual TFP growth beyond 2 percent in China and between 1 and 2 percent in India since the 1980s. The TFP growth is …

commercialization in 1996. However, only a few studies have investigated farmers’ attitudes toward adopting GM grain crops in China. The … China and determines the factors that affect farmers’ prospective adoption decisions. Design/methodology/approach The data … implications for future agricultural policy in China.  …

market commercialisation with an empirical study of farmers in Northwest China. Design/methodology/approach The three …