The Distribution of Agricultural Enterprises and Increased Specialization of Agriculture

Vasil'ev, N.

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“…Many prior studies on "flexible specialization" and "industrial districts" have pointed out the role of household economies in generating local development, but they have mostly focused on industrial and manufactural systems [14,15]. According to some researchers, agricultural specialization is primarily affected by transportation costs [16][17][18], market transaction costs [19], material and technical resources [20], price risk and market scope [21], and national agricultural policy [22]. Others suggest that rural households with an entrepreneurial spirit are playing a leading role in fostering formation of specialized villages, especially in rural regions dominated by a small-scale "peasant" economy [23].…”

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Specialized Villages in Inland China: Spatial and Developmental Issues

Xiongfei

et al. 2018

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The development of specialized villages in China is an interesting trend. This paper studies specialized villages in China by using the rational small household theory, division of labor and specialization concepts, as well as the distance decay and neighborhood effect theories. We use the census data on specialized villages in Henan Province (the largest agricultural province in China) from 2010 as the basis for a case study, applying dummy variables representing sixteen types of specialized villages, and selecting environmental variables, such as land form, location, arable land area, and labor force characteristics. We find that significant factors related to specialization are location and production factors. Policy implications of this research are discussed.

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Specialized Villages in Inland China: Spatial and Developmental Issues

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Study on Chinese farmer cooperative economy organization and agricultural specialization

Yang¹,

Liu²

2012

Agric. Econ. - Czech

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Under the background of the Chinese Household Contract Responsibility System (HCRS), farmers have to pay higher transaction costs and encounter a huge trading risk if they engage in agricultural production only through the market transaction. Since the special properties of agricultural production limit the formation and development of agricultural enterprises, farmer cooperative economy organizations with the main functional characteristics of transaction coordination begin to flourish. By building a new classical economics model, this paper demonstrates the theoretical assertion that the generation of a farmer cooperative economy organization is accompanied by the evolution of the division of labour, the improvement of farmers' effectiveness and the development of agricultural specialization. Furthermore, this paper does an empirical analysis with the micro-survey data to verify this theoretical assertion. Therefore, this article effectively explains the generation condition of a farmer cooperative economy organization and the internal mechanism of how it promotes the development of agricultural specialization. So this paper provides a strong theoretical and practical evidence for the development of a farmer cooperative economy organization and agricultural specialization.

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The Distribution of Agricultural Enterprises and Increased Specialization of Agriculture

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Specialized Villages in Inland China: Spatial and Developmental Issues

Specialized Villages in Inland China: Spatial and Developmental Issues

Study on Chinese farmer cooperative economy organization and agricultural specialization

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