China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 6 Issue 4

Rural domestic waste disposal: an empirical analysis in five provinces of China

Ying Liu, Jikun Huang

– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the different types of domestic waste disposal in rural China and the major factors that affect rural household waste disposal behavior.

Impacts of the cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement on the grouper fish markets in Taiwan and mainland China : A stochastic simulation analysis

Byeong-il Ahn, Pei-An Liao, Hanho Kim

– The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) on the grouper fish markets in Taiwan and mainland China.

Economic and environmental effects of nutrient budgeting strategies in animal excreta treatment: A case study from rural China

Yongxi Ma, Wencong Lu, Holger Bergmann

The purpose of this paper is to optimize manure allocation through nutrient budgeting strategy to meet crop nutrient requirements under maximizing economic returns and…

Yield and economic performance of the use of GM cotton worldwide over time : A review and meta-analysis

Julian Witjaksono, Xiaowen Wei, Suchun Mao, Wankui Gong, Yabing Li, Youlu Yuan

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge on the economic performance of genetically modified (GM) cotton worldwide based on a wide…

Is China's dairy processing industry oligopolistic and/or oligopsonistic?

Jiawu Dai, Xiuqing Wang

Complaints about lower agricultural farm-gate price and higher consumer price have emerged in China in recent years. The large gap between dairy farm-gate price and consumer price…

Effects of credit constraints on rural household technical efficiency: Evidence from a city in northern China

Jianmei Zhao, Peter J. Barry

– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effects of access to formal credit on rural household technical efficiency in China.

Adoption of genetically-modified seeds in Taiwan : The role of information acquisition and knowledge accumulation

Yir-Hueih Luh, Wun-Ji Jiang, Yu-Ning Chien

The purpose of this paper is to present an integrated analysis of determining factors of farmers’ genetically modified (GM) technology adoption behavior, with a special emphasis…

Communal dining system and the puzzle of the Great Leap Famine : Re-examine the causality between communal dining and the famine

Yuan Liu, James G. Wen, Xiahai Wei

The purpose of this paper is to explain the puzzle of Chinese Great Leap Famine, which started with a good harvest in the end of 1958 and ended with lowest rural grain consumption…

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