Adoption of food safety and quality standards by China's agricultural cooperatives
Adoption of food safety and quality standards by China's agricultural cooperatives
复制标题
中国农业合作社采用食品安全和质量标准
DOI:
10.1016/j.foodcont.2010.06.021
复制
发表时间:
2011-02-01
期刊:
影响因子:
6
通讯作者:
Zhou, Jiehong
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Jin, Shaosheng;Zhou, Jiehong
The Chinese government is encouraging the adoption of food safety and quality standards by agricultural cooperatives to ensure improved quality of the foods produced Based on the survey data from 124 vegetable cooperatives in Zhejiang Province this study is designed to analyze the factors that affect adoption of food safety and quality standards by agricultural cooperatives in China Our qualitative analysis suggests that cooperative size perception and attitude toward standards reputation expected cost and benefit and the destination market have a positive and statistically significant relationship with the decision of the cooperatives to adopt the standards We were unable to confirm the positive and significant effects of other factors such as innovativeness price premium customer attraction and availability of support The policy implications of encouraging the adoption of food safety and quality standards by agricultural cooperatives are also discussed (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved