Policy Articles

Changing Economic Performance of Japan’s Agricultural Cooperatives

Yoshihisa Godo
2015.10.08
ABSTRACT Japan has a unique system of agricultural cooperatives, known as JA. This study presents the updated estimates of JA’s share in the agricultural input and output markets. This study also calculates indicators for the economic solidarity of JA’s network. The estimation results show that...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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Successful Cases of Agricultural Cooperatives Marketing Activities for Improving Marketing Efficiency in Thailand

Borworn Tanrattanaphong
2015.10.08
ABSTRACT The cooperative movement has played a major role as the growth engine of the agricultural sector in Thailand. However, Thai cooperatives in the sector are now faced with new needs and challenges from farmer-members and consumers. Farmer-members consider high economic returns, while,...
Country: Thailand Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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Roles of Cooperative Movement as Middlemen to Increase the Efficiency of Agricultural Marketing in Malaysia

Rozhan Abu Dardak, Mohd Hafizudin Zakaria, Mohd Syauqi Nazmi, Noorlidawati Ab Halim, Rawaida Rusli, Syahrin Suhaimee
2015.10.08
ABSTRACT This paper aims to illustrate the participation of farmers and fishermen associations in substituting the role of middlemen in Malaysia. “War” against the manipulated middlemen program was launched to establish and support farmers and fishermen associations to reduce dependency of them...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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The Role of Farmers Owned Enterprises to Promote an Efficient Marketing of Agricultural products in Indonesia

Kurnia Suci Indraningsih
2015.10.08
ABSTRACT The goal of Indonesian agricultural development is to increase the welfare of farmers and their family shown by their purchasing power and the quality of their livelihood. Agricultural industry in Indonesia is still underdeveloped.  It caused added value and job opportunity not able...
Country: Indonesia Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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Agricultural Cooperatives’ Pooling Operations to Improve Marketing Efficiency in Korea

Chun-Kwon Yoo
2015.10.08
ABSTRACT Agricultural cooperatives’ marketing business, especially on a pool basis, becomes more important as the agricultural market is increasingly globalized and concentrated by a few large-scale supermarkets. If agricultural cooperatives’ pooling is operated sufficiently in large...
Country: Korea Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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