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| Theodosiou, Giorgos; Michailidis, Anastasios; Loizou, Efstratios; Chatzitheodoridis, Fotis. |
| The main objective of the present paper is to reveal the most important reasons for admitting and supporting a local factor, such as a Union of Agricultural Cooperatives, by the rural residents of a typical Greek region. Moreover, the investigation of the possible dependence relationships among the socioeconomic variables of a market research, which refers to the willingness to purchase dairy products from the Cooperative (the dependent variable) and the independent variables, constitute the intention of the paper. From a methodological point of view, the study extends the employment of categorical multivariate methodologies into rural development issues. Interesting results are revealed from the segmentation of rural populations regarding the drivers of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Cooperative Investment; Market Research; Milk; Rural Region; Community/Rural/Urban Development; C420; D190; R510; H540. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/95308 |
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| Zhu, Jing; Zhu, J.. |
| China's accession to the WTO poses great challenges to the Chinese agricultural sector, especially to the grain producers. Compared with major grain exporters in the world, most grain crops in China are high in production cost and weak in market competitiveness. This can be partly attributed to the fact that Chinese farmers are facing with poorer agricultural production infrastructures and inadequate public investment in agricultural research and extension, which leads to the lower efficiency in private inputs and thus higher private cost per unit of product. After China joining the WTO, protective and administrative measures conflicted with the URAA cannot be utilized as before. Alternative measures should be explored to provide help to farmers to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Public investment; Agricultural research; Grain production; China; WTO; Crop Production/Industries; H540; Q170; Q180. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25825 |
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