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Study on Chinese farmer cooperative economy organization and agricultural specialization

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  • Dan Yang

    (The Research Centre of Rural Economics and Management, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
    College of Economics and Management, Southwest University, Chongqing, China)

  • Zimin Liu

    (College of Economics and Management, Southwest University, Chongqing, China
    Graduate School, The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China)

Abstract

Under the background of the Chinese Household Contract Responsibility System (HCRS), farmers have to pay higher transaction costs and encounter a huge trading risk if they engage in agricultural production only through the market transaction. Since the special properties of agricultural production limit the formation and development of agricultural enterprises, farmer cooperative economy organizations with the main functional characteristics of transaction coordination begin to flourish. By building a new classical economics model, this paper demonstrates the theoretical assertion that the generation of a farmer cooperative economy organization is accompanied by the evolution of the division of labour, the improvement of farmers' effectiveness and the development of agricultural specialization. Furthermore, this paper does an empirical analysis with the micro-survey data to verify this theoretical assertion. Therefore, this article effectively explains the generation condition of a farmer cooperative economy organization and the internal mechanism of how it promotes the development of agricultural specialization. So this paper provides a strong theoretical and practical evidence for the development of a farmer cooperative economy organization and agricultural specialization.

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  • Dan Yang & Zimin Liu, 2012. "Study on Chinese farmer cooperative economy organization and agricultural specialization," Agricultural Economics, Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences, vol. 58(3), pages 135-146.
    • Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:58:y:2012:i:3:id:17-2011-agricecon
    DOI: 10.17221/17/2011-AGRICECON
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