The Impact of Agricultural Cooperatives on Agricultural Marketing: Taiwan's Experience

Chen, Cheng-Wei
ABSTRACT   Original agricultural marketing channel is from farmer through middleman shipping to consumers.  The middleman with market information could influence the market. 1981, Taiwan government passed the Agricultural Products Market Transaction Act (2012.11.28) to help...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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The New Era of Crop Natural Disaster Insurance: The Pilot of Top-grafting Sand Pears

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture http://www.coa.gov.tw/show_news.php?cat=show_news&serial=coa_diamond_20150923185537 　　 The Council of Agriculture (COA) has spent years of planning crop natural disaster insurance in collaboration with domestic non-life insurance corporations in order to...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural risk management
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Tax Refund Program for Food Expenditures

Yoshihisa Godo
Introduction The Japanese tax system employs a general indirect tax known as the Consumption Tax (CT). Currently, a CT of 8% is charged in the sale of all commodities and services. However, the CT rate is scheduled to increase to 10% in April 1, 2017. Citizens are not expected to favor this...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural finance
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Policies Review on Urban and Rural Household Registration System Reform in China

Zhen Zhong
Introduction Historically, China’s urban and rural household registration system is the inevitable choice under the policy of heavy industry priority development strategy .With the completion of primitive accumulation of capital and the deepening of Reform and Opening, a large number of...
Country: China Topic: Rural development
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The Dynamic Evolution of China’s Environment Policy

Zhen Zhong
Introduction Environmental protection has become one of the world’s most heated topics since the 21th century. As the world’s biggest developing country, China’s environmental problem is more eye-catching. The debate between development and environmental production has been...
Country: China Topic: Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
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