Project for Promoting Korea’s Rural Tourism Utilizing International Students

Jeong-bin Im
On September 4th, 2015, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) and the Korea Rural Community Corporation (KRC) announced that they are going to operate the rural tourism supporters group by international students in Korea. This is a part of the project of expanding Korea’s...
Country: Korea Topic: Rural development
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The Launch of Taiwan's First Crop Disaster Insurance Policy

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
  Source: Council of Agriculture The first crop natural insurance policy has just been recently launched after years of efforts by Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture (COA). This is because of the probability of more frequent natural disasters in the future.  The purpose is to...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural risk management
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242

The Treatment of Agricultural Cooperatives in the Antimonopoly Act in Japan

Yoshihisa Godo
Introduction The Japanese government provides various forms of legal support for agricultural cooperatives. One of the most substantial considerations is the special treatment in the anti-monopoly policy, whereby agricultural cooperatives are allowed to escape from certain regulations of the...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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225

Agro-processing Industry in China

Zhen Zhong
INTRODUCTION   China’s agro-processing industry saw a sound momentum of rapid development despite a tough progress in global economic recovery, greater downturn pressure on domestic economy and frequent occurrence of natural disasters. Both of the added industrial value of agro-products and its...
Country: China Topic: Overview
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277

Industrialized Operations of China’s Agriculture

Zhen Zhong
Recently, China’s agricultural industrialization maintained a sound momentum of rapid development, with accelerating industrial transition and continuous institutional innovation, making a positive contribution to economic stability and growth, structural upgrading and reforms in rural areas. By...
Country: China Topic: Overview
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