Impact of farmer organization forms on agricultural product quality from the perspective of technology adoption

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Chen ◽  
Xiaoming Ou ◽  
Xiaoling Dong ◽  
Hongmei Yang ◽  
Comite Ubaldo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Agricultural Product ◽  
Farmer Organization

The effect of export tax rebates on product quality: evidence from China's agricultural product processing industry

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yue Liang ◽  
Jingqi Dang ◽  
Shuai Chen
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Agricultural Product ◽  
Firm Innovation ◽  
Processing Industry ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Export Tax

PurposeThis study aims to establish the linkage among export tax rebate (ETR), firm innovation and product quality of Chinese agricultural product processing industry (APPI), so that more targeted policy implications can be discussed.Design/methodology/approachUsing highly disaggregated firm-product-destination-level data through 2001 to 2013 of Chinese APPI, this study employs a two-way fixed effects specification to establish the linkage between ETR and product quality, while the mediational model is adopted to examine potential mechanisms.FindingsBaseline estimates show that a 1% increase in ETR rate leads to a significant increase in the product quality of APPI by 0.12% on the whole. However, there is a nonlinear, inverse-U shaped relationship between ETR and product quality, and the optimal inflection point occurs when ERT rate equals 0.15. Mechanism analyses show that firm innovation is an important impact channel, which explains 9.8% of quality improvement induced by raising ETR. Further heterogeneous analyses reveal both the total effects of ETR on product quality and the mediation effects of innovation are dominated by young SMEs (small and medium-size enterprises).Practical implicationsAuthorities can promote the innovation and then product quality improvement of young SMEs by moderately increasing ETR rate. To ensure ETR more effective in improving quality, it is necessary for the government to encourage innovation. Authorities can reduce the risk of innovation failure for low-tech firms by increasing R&D subsidies, while ensuring innovation returns for high-tech firms in combination with stronger intellectual property protection.Originality/valueFirst, this is one of the earlier studies to explore the relationship between ETR and product quality specifically for Chinese APPI. Second, we show firm innovation as an important mediator so that policies aim at raising ETR rates are eventually beneficial to product quality. Third, using the highly disaggregated data, we allow ETR rate to vary across different products, which is an improvement in the accuracy of previous literature. Finally, our research provides additional empirical evidence for revealing the micro-mechanism of ETR affecting firm behaviors.

scholarly journals Intelligent Web Information Extraction Model for Agricultural Product Quality and Safety System

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-110
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ali Tofigh ◽  
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Zhendong Mu
Keyword(s):  
Information Extraction ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Hot Spot ◽  
Safety System ◽  
Agricultural Product ◽  
Quality And Safety ◽  
Web Information Extraction ◽  
Web Information ◽  
Product Quality And Safety ◽  
The Web

With the development of society, people pay more and more attention to the safety of food, and relevant laws and policies are gradually introduced and being improved. The research and development of agricultural product quality and safety system has become a research hot spot, and how to obtain the Web information of the system effectively and quickly is the focus of the research, so it is essential to carry out the intelligent extraction of Web information for agricultural product quality and safety system. The purpose of this paper is to solve the problem of how to efficiently extract the Web information of the agricultural product quality and safety system. By studying the Web information extraction methods of various systems, the paper makes a detailed analysis and research on how to realize the efficient and intelligent extraction of the Web information of the agricultural product quality and safety system. This paper analyzes in detail all kinds of template information extraction algorithms used at present, and systematically discusses a set of schemes that can automatically extract the Web information of agricultural product quality and safety system according to the template. The research results show that the proposed scheme is a dynamically extensible information extraction system, which can independently implement dynamic configuration templates according to different requirements without changing the code. Compared with the general way, the Web information extraction speed of agricultural product quality safety system is increased by 25%, the accuracy is increased by 12%, and the recall rate is increased by 30%.

scholarly journals STRATEGI PENGEMBANGAN KELEMBAGAAN KOPERASI PERTANIAN BERBASIS JAGUNG DI PROVINSI GORONTALO

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukman M Baga
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Sustainable Production ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Farmer Organization

success of an integrate agribusiness system of a commodity must be followed by the increase of farmers’ bargain position, especially the small scale agribusiness runs by farmers. Otherwise, farmer will continue to be marginalized, and sustainable production is hard to be achieved. Farmer organization in Indonesia is relatively has weak position and cannot improve farmers’ bargain position since it is still in social institution form (i.e. farmer group), and yet become a socio-economic institution (cooperative). In many countries, farmers’ cooperative not only improves the production, productivity and product quality, but also lead to increase in welfare and life quality of its members. This study specifically aimed to develop corn farmer co-operative in Gorontalo Province. SWOT analysis was being used to formulate the strategy, followed by strategy mapping in road-map as guidance for local government to develop corn farmer co-operative that suitable with its character.Keyword: agribusiness, corn, farmer group, farmer co-operative, Gorontalo.

Misaligned Market

2011 ◽  
pp. 441-457
Author(s):  
Ruey-Lin Hsiao
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Product Quality ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Market Exchange ◽  
Agricultural Market ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Contextual Features ◽  
Product Specification

This article examines e-marketplace adoption difficulties from a contextualist perspective. The analysis of industrial characteristics will unearth the adopter’s supply chain practices and the contextual features which are unfavorable for e-marketplace deployment. To gain a deeper understanding, this research examines an unsuccessful e-marketplace adoption for agricultural industry in China. The tension created by the these two incongruent contexts results in a misaligned market, as a free-market principle (assumed to be an integral part of the e-marketplace) is imposed on an agricultural market exchange which is characterized by a regulated business environment and a monopolistic market, and which emphasizes variances in product quality, tacit product specification, exclusive suppliers, and spotty purchasing. Practical and theoretical implications of the findings are discussed with reference to technology adoption and technology-organization alignment literature.

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