THE struggle of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to conclude the Doha round of multilateral trade negotiations brought again to the forefront the important role that agricultural policy continues to play in international trade relations. The sector is subject to heavy-handed governmental interventions throughout the world. Despite decades (even centuries) of economists’ arguments against agri...

The circulation of agricultural products is more complex and uncertainty than that of industrial products. The distribution channels of agricultural products are quite unique. The agricultural products logistics directly affect the efficiency of china’s economy since agriculture is still main part of the economy. At the same time, with the development of information technology, e-business has a...

The rapid development of agricultural economy exacerbates the competition that the agricultural and animal husbandry enterprises compete for high-skilled talents. The contradiction of the agricultural talent supply and demand is increasingly outstanding. The cultivation model of school-enterprise cooperation high-skilled talents can solve this problem effectively. The article can highlight adva...

China is a large agricultural country, yet the development environment of E-business in China is not mature. E-Commerce of agricultural products is a revolutionary change of traditional agricultural economy. This paper focuses on agricultural products’ electronic commerce in China. Firstly, the paper describes the current situation of electronic commerce. Afterwards, the paper uses Fuzzy Analyt...

This paper has examined three features of the rural economy in the context of transition of Indian economy: (a) shift in rural employment pattern, (b) trends in rural wages and agricultural growth, and (c) relationships between agricultural wages, productivity and rural non-farm employment (RNFE) in India. The change over of farm employment to non-farm employment has been found higher for male ...

Global market economy and the growing concern about environment have been moving agricultural production into the area of conflict between economy and ecology. Increased efficiency in agricultural productivity via plant breeding, mechanization, and management techniques have all been important factors in maintaining the balance between food supply and world demand. Necessary improvements in the...

This paper presents a model of industrialization through rural–urban interdependence. It shows how an economy with a low cost share of industrial inputs in agricultural production and a low expenditure share of manufactured goods, together with a limited variety of industrial inputs, can be caught in a low development trap. By escaping from the trap the economy moves toward more roundabout meth...

This paper examines the apparent conflict between the classical assumption of a bargaining agricultural sector wage and the neo-classical assumption of a competitive wage in the context of a labor surplus developing economy. It concludes that the relatively inelastic supply of labor hours offered by low income small or landless farmers in the static microeconomic leisure/work context is perfect...

In the process of traditional economy transforming into modern economy in china, farmer’s diversification phenomena has arisen and developed and will continue a long time in the future. Accordingly, the general economic type of farmer diversification will effect on the rural source allocation. The land use behavior characteristics of diversification farmer are the aims of the study. Theoretic a...

This paper assesses and quantifies the consequences of world trade liberalization in agriculture on trade and food security of Sudan. Sudan, with the agricultural sector as the main sector of economy, is characterized by its small open economy, and is classified as one of the least developed countries. Thus, Sudan becomes more vulnerable to any changes in international agricultural markets. The...