Journal
FOOD POLICY
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages 94-102Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2015.12.002
Keywords
Agricultural cooperatives; Impact assessment; Apple farmers; China
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This paper examines the impact of cooperative membership on farm performance indicators such as apple yields, net returns and household income, using cross-sectional data from a survey of farmers in China. An endogenous switching regression model that accounts for selection bias is employed in the analysis. The empirical results reveal that cooperative membership exerts a positive and statistically significant impact on apple yields, farm net returns and household income. A disaggregated analysis also reveals that small-scale farms tend to benefit more from cooperatives than medium and large farms. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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