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Agricultural cooperatives participating in vegetable supply chain integration: A case study of a trinity cooperative in China
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0253668 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021.
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Abstract
- Supply chain integration plays an important role in the development of the vegetable industry in terms of vegetable quality, vegetable safety, and vegetable security in rural China. This paper explores how agricultural cooperatives integrate the vegetable supply chain by taking a trinity cooperative as an example in China. It explains the translation concatenation of supply chain integration for this cooperative by constructing actor networks in four development stages, including the seed stage, start-up stage, development stage, and mature stage. The findings show that supply chain integration in production cooperation, supply & sales cooperation, and credit cooperation is a useful trinity cooperative model of supply chain integration for investigating vegetable supply chain integration through internal integration and external integration. This paper suggests that cooperatives in the vegetable supply chain should facilitate close coordination among different shareholders and further improve the efficiency of supply chain integration. The government should provide training opportunities and funding to encourage cooperatives to participate in supply chain integration within the vegetable industry.
- Subjects :
- Rural Population
Economics
Social Sciences
Plant Science
Geographical Locations
Shareholder
Vegetables
Industrial organization
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Farmers
Multidisciplinary
Plant Anatomy
05 social sciences
Eukaryota
Plants
Crop Production
Professions
Seeds
Medicine
Agricultural Workers
Engineering and Technology
Management Engineering
Network Analysis
Research Article
Computer and Information Sciences
China
Asia
Supply chain integration
Science
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Supply chain
Insurance
0502 economics and business
Humans
Production (economics)
Quality (business)
Risk Management
Government
business.industry
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
Public Finance
Agriculture
People and Places
Money Supply and Banking
Population Groupings
050211 marketing
Network Theory
business
Finance
050203 business & management
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLOS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....68d963fad1efc5f2e43cd68fcf139d3c