China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 11 Issue 2

IPM adoption, cooperative membership and farm economic performance: Insight from apple farmers in China

Wanglin Ma, Awudu Abdulai

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on farmers’ decisions to adopt integrated pest management (IPM) technology and to…

Technology efficiency or allocation efficiency: The inverse relationship in China’s cereal production

Hailong Cai, Tianyao Yan

The emergence of mega-farms in middle-income countries like Brazil and Ukraine and the efforts to consolidate small farms into larger ones in China and elsewhere have suggested…

The academic performance of primary school students from rural China: Distribution and correlates

Hongyan Liu, Hao Xue, Yaojiang Shi, Scott Rozelle

Low levels of human capital in rural China are rooted in the poor schooling outcomes of elementary school students. The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the…

Energy use and rural poverty: empirical evidence from potato farmers in northern China

Zihan Li, Yazhen Gong, Kevin Z. Chen

Rising energy expenditures due to more intensive use of energy in modern agriculture and increasing energy prices may affect rural households’ agricultural incomes, particularly…

Double trigger agricultural insurance products with weather index and yield index

Yugu Xiao, Jing Yao

Agricultural weather index insurance (WII) has been introduced in pilot or experimental form in many countries. However, the effective demand for WII is often limited by the…

The emigration of adult children and smoking behaviors of parents

Tianyuan Luo, Cesar Escalante

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of adult children’s migration on the smoking behavior of rural parents who are left behind and raise the concern that the rural…

Farm size and use of inputs: explanations for the inverse productivity relationship

Shen Cheng, Zhihao Zheng, Shida Henneberry

The relationship between farm size and land productivity is a hotly debated issue in the study of agricultural economics and development economics. The purpose of this paper is to…

Price transmission, reserve regulation and price volatility

Yanwen Tan, Huasheng Zeng

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Chinese pork reserve regulation policy fulfills its function in stabilizing market prices and simultaneously to theoretically and…

The long-run relationship between farm size and productivity: A re-examination based on Chinese household aggregate panel data

Wanjun Yao, Shigeyuki Hamori

The purpose of this paper is to examine the long-term relationship between farm size and productivity in China at the national level.

Does computer usage change farmers’ production and consumption? Evidence from China

Jianyun Hou, Xuexi Huo, Runsheng Yin

The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of using computers to obtain information on the farm household’s production and consumption based on a field survey of farm…

Does the New Rural Pension Scheme crowd out private transfers from children to parents? Empirical evidence from China

Manxiu Ning, Weiping Liu, Jinquan Gong, Xudong Liu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) on the private transfer behavior of the non-co-resident adult children to their elderly…

Assessing the functional efficiency of agricultural futures markets in China

Ju Ronghua, Yang Zhiling

The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively analyse the changes in the functional efficiency of the six Chinese agricultural futures markets and compare the relative behaviour…

Achieving Food Security in China: The Challenges Ahead

Brad W. Gilmour