Policy Articles

Cooperative Movement in the Supply Chain of Agricultural Products: Way Forwards

Rozhan Abu Dardak
2015.10.07
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
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A new vision of growth for the beef industry and the expected roles of agricultural cooperatives in Hokkaido, Japan

Hiroshi Takahashi
2015.10.06
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
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The Impact of Agricultural Cooperatives on Agricultural Marketing: Taiwan's Experience

Chen, Cheng-Wei
2015.10.06
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
2015.09.30
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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
2015.09.30
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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