Strength in numbers: farmer associations
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Cooperation between farmers is mutually beneficial
The vast majority of farmers around the world belong to some kind of industry association through which they are able to engage in collective marketing, share information and achieve economies of scale in purchasing raw materials and equipment.
Not so China. According to Professor Huang Jikun, director of the Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, only 3% of the country's farmers participate in professional associations.
"Most of them ...
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