The role of agricultural cooperatives in serving as a marketing channel: evidence from low-income regions of Sichuan province in China

Liu, Yuying; Ma, Wanglin; Renwick, Alan; Fu, Xinhong

doi:10.22434/ifamr2018.0058

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“…Cooperative membership was also found to be significant for informal retailer and formal wholesale market channels in this study. Cooperatives are considered as a marketing channel used by members (Liu et al, 2018), and this study agrees with Hao et al (2018) who reported a positive influence of cooperative membership in farmers decision to participate in wholesale market channels. Membership of a cooperative is universally understood to provide market access, improve bargaining power and reduce transaction costs for members (Alho, 2015), which are essential to obtain benefits from formal wholesale market channels.…”

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The Market Channel Preference Among Smallholder Cocoyam Farmers in South Africa: A Food Security Perspective

Nwafor¹

2020

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Market channel choice makes important contributions to the incomes and other livelihood attributes among smallholder farmers in developing countries. Often considered from a number of perspectives, the dominant view articulated suggests an advantageous integration into formal market channels. This position is questioned as it has implications for smallholder farmers’ food security and rural incomes. Using a mixed methods approach, the study collected primary data from 174 smallholder farmers and applied both a descriptive and multinomial logit regression model to analyze factors contributing to cocoyam production and market channel choices among respondents in the study area. Findings indicate that financial returns and available markets were key factors in cocoyam production, while amount received was a driver of market channel choice among 89% of respondents who sold directly at farm-gate. Farmers’ age (p=0.044), household size (p=0.043), distance to market (p=0.021), additional income (p=0.017) and amount received (p=0.014) were significant variables (p<.05) in the determinants of market channel choice. The study recommended improving market information provision and strengthening farmer associations which will enable smallholder farmers in rural communities to make informed choices with respect to produce price, access other markets and consolidate their collective market bargaining position.

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Section: Farmer and Farm Specific Factors Influencing Market Channel supporting

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The Market Channel Preference Among Smallholder Cocoyam Farmers in South Africa: A Food Security Perspective

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2020

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“…The bulk of family income is made up of off-farm sources. This is in line with the findings of another survey recently carried out in Sichuan Province where the share of farm income just made up about 20% (Liu et al, 2019).…”

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Is there a role for agricultural production cooperatives in agricultural development? Evidence from China

2020

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In recent years, China witnessed a boom in the formation of agricultural cooperatives. While most of them have been set up as agricultural service cooperatives, there is also the option of forming agricultural production cooperatives (APCs). Although both models stem from a similar long tradition, it was argued that production cooperatives were not competitive, thus having no role in agricultural development. Historically, these cooperatives were formed under specific conditions only. However, in recent years, they have been observed in villages characterised by family agriculture. Taking the example of Chongzhou County (Sichuan Province, China), this exploratory study investigates the salient conditions under which farmers voluntarily join such cooperatives. The results show that APCs still have a role to play in agricultural development after all. Certain conditions have to be met, like government support and recruitment of professional farm managers, but particularly a homogeneous membership and transparent decision-making processes.

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“…2014; Liu et al . 2019). Membership variable in the fourth column of Table 6 has a positive and statistically significant coefficient, suggesting that for households who are cooperative members, the increase in farm income at the 75th quantile is around 154% (

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Internet Use, Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Rural Incomes: Evidence from China

Wang

2020

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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Relatively little is known about the association between Internet use and environmentally-friendly agricultural innovation adoption. To fill this void, this study examines the impact of Internet use on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) and their heterogeneous effects on farm income and household income. Unlike previous studies that analyse the dichotomous decision of agricultural innovation adoption, this study captures the number of SAPs adopted. We apply both endogenous-treatment Poisson regression model and unconditional quantile regression model to analyse unique farm-level data collected from China. The empirical results show that Internet use exerts a positive and statistically significant impact on the number of SAPs adopted, and the joint effects of Internet use and SAP adoption on farm income and household income are heterogeneous. In particular, we show that Internet use has a larger impact at the upper tail of household income but it has no significant impact on farm income. SAP adoption is negatively associated with farm income and household income across the selected quantiles.

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The role of agricultural cooperatives in serving as a marketing channel: evidence from low-income regions of Sichuan province in China

Cited by 71 publications

References 34 publications

The Market Channel Preference Among Smallholder Cocoyam Farmers in South Africa: A Food Security Perspective

The Market Channel Preference Among Smallholder Cocoyam Farmers in South Africa: A Food Security Perspective

Is there a role for agricultural production cooperatives in agricultural development? Evidence from China

Internet Use, Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Rural Incomes: Evidence from China

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