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China’s Pilot Projects of Information Entering Villages and Households

Zhen Zhong
Background According to the deployment and requirement of No.1 document issued by central government on promoting information entering villages and households, in 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has launched pilot projects in 10 provinces (cities) and 22 counties. In 2015, the MOA has...
Country: China Topic: Rural development
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China Moderate-scale Agriculture Development

Zhen Zhong
BACKGROUND After the general office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council issued the Guiding Opinions of the State Council on the Orderly Circulation of Rural Land Contracted Management Rights and the Development of Moderate scale Agriculture Operations, the...
Country: China Topic: Overview
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Recent Development of Agricultural Products Market System in China

Zhen Zhong
INTRODUCTION At present, the Country has 4 469 agricultural products wholesale markets, about 70 percent of which are at production bases. According to statistics from National Bureau of Statistics, as of end of 2014, there were 999 agricultural products specialized wholesale markets with trading...
Country: China Topic: Agriculture
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Institutional Arrangement of Member Heterogeneous Cooperative and Cooperation Stability: Evidences from Three Dairy Farmer’ Cooperatives

Zhen Zhong
ABSTRACT The institutional arrangements of famer cooperatives influence the stability of cooperatives through contract form, risk sharing, and benefit distribution. Taking three Chinese dairy farmer cooperatives as an example, this paper analyzes the logical relationships between contract form,...
Country: China Topic: Agricultural cooperatives and farmers' organizations
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Potatoes: The Fourth Staple Food of China

Siyu Chen, Zhen Zhong
Introduction As known to us, potatoes are vegetables. However, potatoes can also fill our belly without other foods. Hence, more and more people see potatoes as one kind of food. In response to this trend, China recently planned to launch a potato staple strategy so that the crop could become the...
Country: China Topic: Food security and safety
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