Farmer Cooperatives as the Mainstay on Safety of Agricultural Products in China

Guo-Ming Han () and He Wang
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Guo-Ming Han: Lanzhou University
He Wang: Lanzhou University

Chapter Chapter 95 in The 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2013, pp 891-901 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The safety of agricultural products is a source of food security, and safety of agricultural products is directly related with the use of pesticides. This article first briefly review our current research situation on food security and put forward the importance of farm management; then, from the Micro-economics of information to explain the reasons of market failure and government failure; and then from the perspective of farmer cooperatives to put forward ideas; finally, we propose that the co-operatives as the main part with governments and other social organizations to participate in the management of multi-center safety of agricultural products to solve the problem.

Keywords: Farmer cooperative; Government failure; Market failure; Pesticide misuse; Safety of agricultural products (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-38442-4_95

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