Do Farmer Professional Cooperatives Improve Technical Efficiency and Income? Evidence from Small Vegetable Farms in China

Ying Dong; Yueying Mu; David Abler

doi:10.1017/aae.2019.22

Do Farmer Professional Cooperatives Improve Technical Efficiency and Income? Evidence from Small Vegetable Farms in China

Ying Dong, Yueying Mu, David Abler

Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Education

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China's small-scale agricultural producers face many challenges to increasing productivity and efficiency. In recent years, the Chinese government has provided support for farmer professional cooperatives (FPCs) to connect small farms with upstream and downstream processes in the food supply chain. This study combines propensity score matching and sample selection-corrected stochastic production frontier analysis to estimate the impacts of FPC participation by greenhouse vegetable producers on technical efficiency and income. Results indicate that FPCs help participants improve returns to scale and marginal returns to land and labor, increase technical efficiency, and obtain ¥4,460 (18%) greater income per greenhouse than nonparticipants.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	591-605
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
Volume	51
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/aae.2019.22
State	Published - Nov 1 2019

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