China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 13 Issue 4

Short supply chain participation, and agrochemicals' use intensity and efficiency: evidence from vegetable farms in China

Xiaoheng Zhang, Xiaohua Yu

Overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is a major policy concern for many countries. Chinese government has adopted many technologies and management practices to reduce…

Does cooperative membership impact the yield and efficiency of smallholder farmers? Evidence from potato farmers in Mongolia

Samuel Ahado, Jiří Hejkrlík, Anudari Enkhtur, Tserendavaa Tseren, Tomáš Ratinger

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on potato production and technical efficiency.

The effect of China's domestic public storage on world market prices: the case of cotton

Wenshou Yan, Kaixing Huang

During world price spike periods, the government is more likely to apply trade distortions to stabilize domestic prices, but the trade distortions would amplify fluctuations of…

Migration patterns and migrant workers' consumption

Xiaofeng Li, Li Luo

The purpose of this paper is to exam the relationship between migration patterns and migrant workers' consumption and study how to upgrade the consumption of migrant workers.

Farmland lease, high-rent threat and contract instability: evidence from China

Wenjue Zhu, Krishna P. Paudel, Sean Inoue, Biliang Luo

The purpose is to understand why contract instability occurs when small landowners lease their land to large landholders.

Does broadband infrastructure really affect consumption of rural households? – A quasi-natural experiment evidence from China

Jianxiang Wan, Changteng Nie, Fan Zhang

As an important public infrastructure, broadband has absorbed a large amount of investment in China. However, how and to what extent these investments affect economic and social…

Impact of multiple soil conservation practices on rice yields and chemical fertiliser use in China

Zhihai Yang, Ning Yin, Amin William Mugera, Yumeng Wang

This paper analysed survey data of 715 rice-producing households in China to assess the determinants of adoption of five mutually exclusive soil conservation practices (SCPs) and…

Rural credit input, labor transfer and urban–rural income gap: evidence from China

Guohua Yu, Zheng Lu

The purpose of this study is to elaborate the theoretical mechanism of rural credit input affecting the urban–rural income gap from the perspective of labor transfer, and use a…

Does the risk aversion of crude oil market investors have directional predictability for the precious metal and agricultural markets?

Yue-Jun Zhang, Xu Pan

Risk aversion is considered as an important factor in predicting asset prices. Many studies have proved that there exists important price information spillover among crude oil…

Farm size and pesticide use: evidence from agricultural production in China

Jingjing Gao, Qingen Gai, Binbin Liu, Qinghua Shi

China is the world's largest consumer of pesticides. To increase the use efficiency and achieve more sustainable and environmentally friendly use of pesticides in China, it is…

From prosperity to decline: the world tea market and Chinese tea industry since modern times from the perspective of economics

Jiajin Chen, Yong Lu