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 …

the farm-level panel data from Hubei province in China from 1999 to 2003, this paper employs the two-way fixed effect …. Practical implications – Because different agricultural efficiency indicators have different policy implications for China …, the Chinese household responsibility system has played a critical role in its agriculture and will continue to play a …

survey is confined only to the counties investigated. China is very diverse in its agricultural economies and many RCCs …, may not hold global appeal for Chinese farmers. In the future RCCs may want to consider alternative approaches to loan …

nutrition intake in rural China. Design/methodology/approach – Using a system of simultaneous equations in a three-stage least … the long term, all households in rural China appear able to deal with changing climatic conditions through adaptation …. Second, the authors do not find evidences to prove the existence of a poverty nutrition trap in rural China. Third, the …