Development Characteristics, Problems and Recommendations of Sweet Potato Industry in Fuyang City

Zemin Fan, Xinliang Liu, Yuling Zhu, Xiumei Wang, Xiaolu Jiang and Fengwu Xing

Asian Agricultural Research, 2013, vol. 05, issue 12, 4

Abstract: The development of sweet potato industry in Fuyang City takes on following characteristics: increase in planting area of specialized households and professional cooperatives; increase in production input and yield; constant optimization of planting varieties; diversified planting modes. Sweet potato industry has made significant contribution to Fuyang City: (1) enriching types of agricultural products and promoting healthy diet; (2) driving development of agricultural product processing industry and increasing the employment rate of rural labor; (3) increasing financial revenue and rate of export-making foreign exchange of agricultural products; (4) increasing farmers’ income and promoting new socialist countryside construction. In line with comparative advantages and existing problems of sweet potato industry in Fuyang City, it presents corresponding industrial development recommendations.

Keywords: Agribusiness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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