E-commerce has been developing rapidly in rural areas, and has a big influence on people’s life especially in villages and towns in recent years. The popularization of Taobao Villages is the best example.In this paper, we conduct a literature review on rural e-commerce (REC) in China from three aspects: the research status, research contents, and research tendency firstly. We then taking farmer...

The impact of the introduction of EU Single Area Payments (SAP) on farm expansion strategy in Lithuania is investigated, utilizing farm accounting and survey data. The introduction of the SAP has a positive influence on farmers’ intentions to expand their area compared to a baseline scenario of the hypothetical continuation of pre-accession policy. The switch in policy has a more pronounced eff...

In the United States, bighead are polycultured with channel catfish in approximately 5,100 acres of earthen ponds, including an estimated 4,000 acres in Arkansas, 500 in Mississippi, and 600 in Alabama. Bighead are an important source of additional income that, at times of low catfish prices, has kept some fish farmers in business. The primary market is to live-haulers who sell to specialty mar...

The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influence earned income of organic farmers explicitly incorporating farmer decisions to engage in local selling. The stochastic frontier model identifies role model producers who are the most technically efficient in achieving the maximum output that is feasible with a given set of inputs along with farm and demographic factors th...

1128 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 13, No. 7, July 2007 Failure to report poultry deaths should be addressed and has several possible explanations. Farmers are accustomed to common yearly poultry deaths, which are not reported. In the absence of an offi cial compensation statement, farmers may fear income loss from massive poultry culling. Our results emphasize the need ...

Indemnifying smallholder farmers against crop loss is thought to be infeasible due to information problems. Consequently there is interest in developing alternative, partial, insurance products. Examples include rainfall insurance and the limited liability inherent in credit contracts. I argue that while these products may reduce information asymmetry, ambiguity averse farmers struggle to asses...

the main objective of this study is analysis of effective factors on production risk management among orange farmers. statistical population of research included all orange farmers of jiroft (kerman province). using the cochran formula were selected 25 cases, but to increase the validity of the research findings, by class random sampling the number of 125 questionnaire distribution among the me...

the aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting timely repayment of agricultural loans in fars province. the necessary data was obtained from agricultural bank as well as through 163 questionnaires, filled out in fars-province. the farmers were divided in to timely repayment and defaulter groups while standard tobit model being used for the study. the dependent variable in this m...

Namibia hosts the worldwide largest free-ranging cheetah population (Marker-Kraus et al. 1996) with 95% of this population roaming outside of protected areas on commercial farmland (Morsbach 1987, Marker-Kraus & Schumann 1998). Commercial livestock farming and trophy hunting have a large economic importance in Namibia and generate substantial income (Marker-Kraus et al. 1996, Barnes et al. 2001...

The purpose of this study was to survey impacts of drought on Socio-economic conditions of Guilan Paddy farmers. Besides recognizing these impacts, it ranked them according to the viewpoint of the Paddy farmers. It was of the descriptive- correlation type. Questionnaire was the main tool of this study. To determine the validity of questionnaire used of comments of panel experts and reliability ...