Current Situation and prospects of Cooperatives in Vietnam’s Agricultural Sector

Ngo Thu Hang, Nguyen Thi Tan Loc
ABSTRACT Currently, there are 18,638 existing cooperatives in Vietnam. Of these, 10,204 cooperatives are into agriculture and fishery. The economic cooperation sector and cooperatives have attracted 13 million farmers and small production facilities. The cooperatives have been undergoing a...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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Cooperative Movement in the Supply Chain of Agricultural Products: Way Forwards

Rozhan Abu Dardak
ABSTRACT Agriculture is one of importance sectors in every country. In general, agriculture activities are carried out by small farmers of less than one hectare and they work individually. They rely on middlemen in the agricultural supply chain because it is not worthwhile to market their...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
14,281
312

A new vision of growth for the beef industry and the expected roles of agricultural cooperatives in Hokkaido, Japan

Hiroshi Takahashi
ABSTRACT The livestock producers in Japan continued to be exposed to the wave of the free trade such as TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) and EPA (Economic Partnership Agreement). In the past, livestock producers in Japan was exposed to the competition against the low priced imported beef...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
4,583
158

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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