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Tobacco crop substitution: Pilot effort in China

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  • Li, V.C.
  • Wang, Q.
  • Xia, N.
  • Tang, S.
  • Wang, C.C.

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In China, approximately 20 million farmers produce the world's largest share of tobacco. Showing that income from crop substitution can exceed that from tobacco growth is essential to persuading farm families to stop planting tobacco, grown abundantly in Yunnan Province. In the Yuxi Municipality, collaborators from the Yuxi Bureau of Agriculture and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health initiated a tobacco crop substitution project. At 3 sites, 458 farm families volunteered to participate in a new, for-profit cooperative model. This project successfully identified an approach engaging farmers in cooperatives to substitute food crops for tobacco, thereby increasing farmers' annual income between 21% and 110% per acre.

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  • Li, V.C. & Wang, Q. & Xia, N. & Tang, S. & Wang, C.C., 2012. "Tobacco crop substitution: Pilot effort in China," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 102(9), pages 1660-1663.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2012.300733_4
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300733
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    1. Michael Rubens, 2023. "Market Structure, Oligopsony Power, and Productivity," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 113(9), pages 2382-2410, September.
    2. Julia Smith & Jennifer Fang, 2020. "‘If you kill tobacco, you kill Malawi’: Structural barriers to tobacco diversification for sustainable development," Sustainable Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(6), pages 1575-1583, November.

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