scholarly journals Online marketing of agricultural products during COVID pandemic: Farmers and customers perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (Special Issue 6S) ◽  
pp. 94-101
Author(s):  
Ajitha K ◽  
Samuel Joseph C ◽  
Mahila Vasanthi Thangam D
2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 01042
Author(s):  
Chunying Wang

Taking rice, people’s staple food in most areas of China, as an example, this paper has searched relevant evaluation and literature of online stores specializing in geographically indicated agricultural products on those leading e-commerce platforms such as Taobao and Jingdong. The goal is to determine the main attributes considered by online consumers and apply conjoint analysis method to analyzing the significance level of each attribute when they purchase geographically indicated rice. It is indicated that online marketing of geographically indicated agricultural products entails identifying consumer characteristics and the orientation, while product distributors and industry associations should build a sound and traceable system of agricultural products to enhance consumers’ trust.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Li

With the continuous development of network communication technology in recent years, China's socialist market has been continuously improved, and the level and standards of modern science and technology have also achieved a remarkable improvement. Coupled with the gradual integration of economies worldwide, China's Internet technology is also rapid developing. In the meantime, this ushered the development and formation of online marketing market in China. In particular, the business of by-products from the agriculture industry can also be promoted through the new marketing medium of the network, representing a major change in the market economy. The agricultural product marketing model using Internet Plus helps farmers to expand the sales of the agricultural products, and also provides a new opportunity for the further development of the network marketing. The author discusses the Internet Plus-based agricultural product marketing model, encompassing an analysis of the advantages of marketing green agricultural products in the Internet Plus era and the status quo of China's agricultural product marketing activities. Considering the sales demand of green agricultural product in the current market and the development of e-commerce under the Internet Plus model, it will further promote the development of network marketing activities of green agricultural product in China.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 424-446
Author(s):  
Wenhui Tian ◽  
Yanjun Li ◽  
Linzhu Li

PurposeThe paper aims to clarify the influence of different picture contents on consumer's willingness to click pictures when shopping for agricultural products online and examine the intermediary mechanism and boundary conditions of the impact.Design/methodology/approachThe paper opted for an empirical study based on the cue utilization theory and information processing theory, including three experiments to test the existence, intermediary mechanism and boundary conditions of the impact of online picture contents of agricultural products on consumers' clicking intention.FindingsThe paper provides empirical insights about the influence of picture contents on consumer's willingness to click when shopping for agricultural products online. The picture of product's production environment or grower on the search result page can effectively improve consumer's willingness to click the product under dual systemic information processing modes. Compared with product pictures, pictures displaying products and production environment can stimulate more cognitive system processing, and pictures displaying products and its growers can stimulate more emotional system processing, both resulting in higher click intention. However, the above effects only exist in the context of non-branded agricultural products.Originality/valueThe research results not only provide practical guidance for merchants, but also fill the gap in the research on the impact of picture contents on consumers in the field of agricultural products in online marketing.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenhui Tian ◽  
Yanjun Li ◽  
Linzhu Li

PurposeThe paper aims to clarify the influence of different picture contents on consumer's willingness to click pictures when shopping for agricultural products online and examine the intermediary mechanism and boundary conditions of the impact.Design/methodology/approachThe paper opted for an empirical study based on the cue utilization theory and information processing theory, including 3 experiments to test the existence, intermediary mechanism and boundary conditions of the impact of online picture contents of agricultural products on consumers' clicking intention.FindingsThe paper provides empirical insights about the influence of picture contents on consumer's willingness to click when shopping for agricultural products online. The picture of product's production environment or grower on the search result page can effectively improve consumer's willingness to click the product under dual-systemic information processing modes. Compared with product pictures, pictures displaying products and production environment can stimulate more cognitive system processing, and pictures displaying products and its growers can stimulate more emotional system processing, both resulting in higher click intention. However, the above effects only exist in the context of non-branded agricultural products.Originality/valueThe research results can not only provide practical guidance for merchants, but also fill the gap in the research on the impact of picture contents on consumers in the field of agricultural products in online marketing.


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