This paper examines the likely e¤ect of government subsidy payments on the future participation rate of farmers in the "Grain for Green " conser-vation program in China. In this paper I develop a model of the strategic interactions between governments and farmers. Each period, the local

By applying the co-integration approach, this paper tests the market integration for the main agricultural products in China. Both long-run market integration and short-run market integration for the main agricultural products are tested and analysed. The study also calculates the Index of Market

IPM practice and attempt in last several years in China grain storage

Regional grain flows in China have been expanding with the growth of grain production and the development of grain markets. However, is the current pattern of regional grain flows consistent with regional comparative advantage in grain production in China? This paper examines this question by using

Grain is China’s most significant agricultural product, its output being the most watched indicator by government officials, traders and researchers inside and outside China. This paper looks into China’s grain production trends in the recent decade, both before and after China’s WTO accession

Abstract Adopting Pope (1978, 1979) style yield functions, this paper proposes a new method to analyze the impacts of regional climate change on grain production in China. We find that changes in climate will affect grain production in North and South China differently. Specifically, it emerges

The paper is aimed to analyse the impact of grain policy on the structure and growth of grain sector in China. The study applied econometric analysis to test empirically the impact of grain policy on the structure and growth of grain sector in China. The study revealed that agricultural policy

and among local interests, selective state interventions are inevitable and necessary for a successful market transition. This paper examined the evolution of market pattern in the new market transition economies based on the emergence of an internal grain market under market reform in China. I found

Mullen (2004,2005) conducted an impact assessment of two ACIAR funded economics research projects enquiring into domestic grain market reform in China. The benefit cost ratio to ACIAR was estimated to be in the range 5:1 to 33:1. The impact assessment was conducted when grain policy was viewed

Abstract In economics comparative analysis plays the same role as experimental research in physics. In this paper we closely examine several methodological problems related to comparative analysis by investigating the specific example of grain markets in China and France respectively. This enables