AgribusinessPub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1002/agr.21932
Aymeric Ricome, Amy Faye, Cheickh S. Fall, Sergio Gomez-y-Paloma
{"title":"The impact of access to agricultural advisory services on input use and farm performance: Evidence from Senegal","authors":"Aymeric Ricome, Amy Faye, Cheickh S. Fall, Sergio Gomez-y-Paloma","doi":"10.1002/agr.21932","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21932","url":null,"abstract":"Performant agricultural advisory services (AAS) in Africa are crucial for improving the agricultural productivity and food security of the farm households. Yet, evidence-based study on the impacts of AAS on farm performance are scarce, especially in West African countries. This study evaluates the impact of access to AAS on input use and farm performance in Senegal, employing the instrumental variable and control function approaches accounting for selection bias. The approaches are also employed to several sub-samples to see if the impacts are heterogeneous across crop types and fertilizer use, and matching techniques are applied to test the robustness of the results. Results show that the highest positive impact of AAS is on yield, while the impacts on gross margin and improved seeds uptake are very modest. Access to AAS has no effect on fertilizer uptake. It also finds that AAS impacts positively cereal production and farmers using no fertilizer but has no effect on the legume and horticultural crop production and on farmers using fertilizer. Given the Senegalese government and donors have put a lot of effort into developing an efficient AAS system, a consideration of the identified weaknesses is required to improve its efficiency. [EconLit Citations: Q12, Q16]","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140128223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AgribusinessPub Date : 2024-03-12DOI: 10.1002/agr.21930
Yuchen Liu, Yinguo Dong, Hui Zhou
{"title":"The impact of the agricultural digital economy on China's agricultural export growth: Examining mechanisms from supply- and demand-side path perspectives","authors":"Yuchen Liu, Yinguo Dong, Hui Zhou","doi":"10.1002/agr.21930","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21930","url":null,"abstract":"The deep integration of the agricultural digital economy and foreign trade is an important driving force for promoting high–quality economic development. Based on a theoretical analysis of the impact mechanisms of the agricultural digital economy on agricultural exports, this study empirically examines the impact and mechanism of the agricultural digital economy on agricultural exports using Chinese agricultural export data from 2011 to 2016. The relevant findings are threefold. (1) The agricultural digital economy significantly enhances the growth of China's agricultural exports, and the result remains robust after a series of robustness tests. (2) The heterogeneity analysis reveals that the agricultural digital economy has a greater role in promoting exports from quality frontier firms, primary agricultural products and exports to developed countries. (3) The mechanism analysis demonstrates that the agricultural digital economy promotes exports of agricultural products on the supply side most strongly through quality–enhancing and the information cost effects, improving product quality and reducing information expenditure to achieve export growth. On the demand side, domestic demand traction and external–demand creation effects exert a local market effect and stimulate import market demand to promote export growth. [EconLit Citations: F746.12].","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140107123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AgribusinessPub Date : 2024-03-08DOI: 10.1002/agr.21928
Daum Kim, Kohya Takahashi, Koshi Maeda
{"title":"Effects of health claims on demand structure and market power: The case of the yogurt market in Japan","authors":"Daum Kim, Kohya Takahashi, Koshi Maeda","doi":"10.1002/agr.21928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21928","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to clarify the effects of health claims on consumer purchasing behavior and market power, using the Japanese yogurt market as a case study. For the analysis, the Berry, Levinsohn, and Pakes model was applied for estimations using product-level purchasing data. The main analysis results are as follows. First, consumers prefer brands with lower prices, higher protein, lower fat, lower carbohydrates, and foods for specified health uses (FOSHU). Second, from the value of own-price elasticity of market shares, the higher the price of a brand, the more sensitively consumers respond to price. From the value of the cross-price elasticity of market shares, strong competition exists among FOSHU brands, and the price of R-1 drink types tends to significantly impact the market shares of brands other than FOSHU brands. Third, the market power of each brand tends to be higher for lower-priced brands and lower for higher-priced brands. In terms of market power by manufacturer, Meiji has the highest both the weighted average and median values. However, both the weighted average and median values of Danone Japan are relatively lower than those of other manufacturers. Fourth, in terms of each brand's market power, brands with low prices and FOSHU labeling have high market power. These findings suggest that the acquisition of FOSHU brands in the Japanese yogurt market does not lead to a decline in market power (increase in price) and has positive effects for manufacturers, such as an increased market share.","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140070976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AgribusinessPub Date : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1002/agr.21927
Yessica C. Y. Chung, Motoi Kusadokoro, Hung‐Hao Chang, Yukinobu Kitamura
{"title":"Rural tourism promotion policy and rural hospitality enterprises performance: Empirical evidence from Japan","authors":"Yessica C. Y. Chung, Motoi Kusadokoro, Hung‐Hao Chang, Yukinobu Kitamura","doi":"10.1002/agr.21927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21927","url":null,"abstract":"Increased tourism demand provides an opportunity to boost rural development. This paper examines the impact of rural tourism policy reform on hospitality and restaurant enterprises in rural areas in Japan. In early 2016, the Japanese government introduced a policy to encourage the participation of nonfarm enterprises in the rural hospitality industry. Using a nationally representative dataset of rural hospitality enterprises in Japan, we employ the difference‐in‐differences method to assess the causal effects of the policy on the sales value, number of business days, and labor productivity of hospitality enterprises and restaurants in rural areas. We find that this reform resulted in a 15.6% increase and a 5.1% decrease in the sales value of nonfarm‐owned and farm‐owned homestay enterprises, respectively. Moreover, changes in the number of business days and labor productivity can be associated with the policy effect. We also find a significant policy effect on nonfarm‐owned restaurants. [EconLit Citations: Q12, Q13].","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140057357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AgribusinessPub Date : 2024-03-01Epub Date: 2022-11-15DOI: 10.1177/17585732221139795
Peter Sutton, Marie Lund Ohlsson, Ulrik Röijezon
{"title":"Reduced shoulder proprioception due to fatigue after repeated handball throws and evaluation of test-retest reliability of a clinical shoulder joint position test.","authors":"Peter Sutton, Marie Lund Ohlsson, Ulrik Röijezon","doi":"10.1177/17585732221139795","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17585732221139795","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Proprioception is vital for motor control and can be disturbed, for example, due to fatigue or injury. Clinical feasible, reliable and valid tests of shoulder proprioception are warranted. The aim was to investigate the effects of local fatigue on shoulder proprioception and the reliability of a feasible joint position sense test using an experimental repeated measures design.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Forty participants repeated a shoulder joint position sense test to assess test-retest reliability. The test was then utilized on a subgroup of handball players who were subjected to five bouts of a repeated throwing task with the dominant hand. The effect of local fatigue was investigated by comparing the fatigued with the non-fatigued shoulder.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>There was a significant interaction for the arm × bout (<i>p</i> = 0.028, <i>η<sub>p</sub></i><sup>2</sup> = 0.20) and a significant effect for the arm (<i>p</i> = 0.034, <i>η<sub>p</sub></i><sup>2</sup> = 0.35) with a significant decrease in joint position sense for the throwing arm compared to the non-throwing arm. The intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.78 (95% CI = [0.57; 0.89]). The standard error of measurement between trials was 0.70° (range: 0.57°-0.90°).</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>The results indicate that repeated throwing to fatigue disturbs shoulder joint position sense. Assessment with the modified test showed acceptable reliability and can be a valuable assessment tool in the clinic.</p>","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"21 1","pages":"100-109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10901175/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72968019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AgribusinessPub Date : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1002/agr.21926
Madhav Regmi, Allen M. Featherstone
{"title":"Differential taxation in agricultural credit market","authors":"Madhav Regmi, Allen M. Featherstone","doi":"10.1002/agr.21926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21926","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines whether the market competitiveness of farm loan suppliers is affected by the US tax policy for the farm credit system (FCS) and its potential spillover on the farmers' cost of borrowing. We exploit the variation in the corporate income tax rate to estimate its relationship with the farm debt share of the FCS and the potential spillover effect on the estimated cost of borrowing for agricultural loans. Results suggest that a 10% rise in the state (federal) tax rate is associated with an increase in FCS's total farm debt market share by 1.76% (3.76%). A 10% rise in the FCS total farm debt market share tends to increase the cost of borrowing on agricultural loans by 0.06%. Overall, the findings imply that favorable tax treatment could increase FCS' competitiveness in the agricultural lending market. Also, an increase in the interest rate on farm debt is correlated with the increasing market share of FCS in the agricultural credit market. [EconLit Citations: Q14, N22, H2, H7, G21].","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139979044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AgribusinessPub Date : 2024-02-21DOI: 10.1002/agr.21911
Marie Abbey, Alan G. Smith, Chengyan Yue, Corissa Marson, Yufeng Lai, Carrie Stowers
{"title":"Measuring specialty crop grower willingness to pay for genetic modification and genetic editing","authors":"Marie Abbey, Alan G. Smith, Chengyan Yue, Corissa Marson, Yufeng Lai, Carrie Stowers","doi":"10.1002/agr.21911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21911","url":null,"abstract":"In contrast to the widespread adoption of agricultural commodities modified using biotechnology, the adoption rate of bioengineered specialty crops by growers remains low. The use of bioengineered crops has been controversial since their introduction in the 1990s due to concerns about their potentially harmful effects to human health, the environment, and other socioeconomic issues. To identify grower preferences, perceived opportunities, and barriers to growing bioengineered crops, we surveyed Minnesota specialty crop growers using a web-based survey. The survey measured whether adoption rates are influenced by the specific trait of the modification, the method of bioengineering (genetically modified [GM] vs. genetically edited [GE]), or the end use of the crop being grown (ornamental vs food). Overall willingness-to-pay for both GM and GE potatoes was significantly lower than for conventional potatoes, and nearly a quarter (25%) of our respondents never chose a bioengineered option no matter the benefits. Results were similar for petunias, but fewer respondents (18%) refused to consider the bioengineering option. The type of bioengineering did not have as significant an impact on adoption rate as price or end use. The bioengineered ornamental crop had a higher willingness to adopt than the bioengineered food crop. [EconLit Citations: Q160 Agricultural R & D; Agricultural Technology; Biofuels; Agricultural Extension Services. O330 Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes].","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"177 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139920547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AgribusinessPub Date : 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1002/agr.21925
Aristide Bonsdaouêndé Valea, Lota D. Tamini, Damien Rousselière
{"title":"Agri-food trade liberalization, export prices, and quality upgrading: Evidence from the meat and chocolate sectors in OECD countries","authors":"Aristide Bonsdaouêndé Valea, Lota D. Tamini, Damien Rousselière","doi":"10.1002/agr.21925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21925","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the impact of trade liberalization on export prices and quality. The article is innovative in two respects. First, unlike previous studies, it considers both input and output tariffs simultaneously in a theoretical model. Second, it empirically tests the effects of a combination of specific and ad-valorem tariffs on quality improvement. The theoretical analysis suggests that when firms face reduced output and input tariffs, they tend to improve their export quality and increase export prices. Using export data from 33 OECD countries, the empirical analysis demonstrates that output tariff reduction increases export quality but decreases prices. However, the effects of input tariff reduction on price and quality depend on product differentiation. The results also indicate that the presence of specific tariffs increase product quality while amplifying the positive effects of the reduction of ad-valorem tariffs on quality. This implies that to improve export quality, reducing ad-valorem tariffs is more efficient than a specific tariff. [EconLit Citations: F12, F14, Q17].","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139920548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AgribusinessPub Date : 2024-02-17DOI: 10.1002/agr.21916
Lingxiao Wang, Wenying Li, Yuqing Zheng
{"title":"Does the advertising of plant-based burgers attract meat consumers? The influence of new product advertising on consumer responses","authors":"Lingxiao Wang, Wenying Li, Yuqing Zheng","doi":"10.1002/agr.21916","DOIUrl":"10.1002/agr.21916","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The “meat” marketing of new plant-based burgers distinguished them from traditional vegan burgers, yet it is still unknown if and to what extent this advertising appeals to meat consumers. We employ a novel digital advertisement dataset from Nielsen Ad Intel to investigate the market entry and advertising patterns of the Impossible Burger, one of the leading brands in the plant-based meat market. By merging weekly ad views at the DMA market level with Nielsen Homescan Panel, we find that prior purchases of meat burgers reduce the likelihood of consumers buying the new plant-based burger, whereas past vegan burger purchases elevate this probability. While advertising did boost the average purchasing likelihood for the Impossible Burger, the enhancement in purchase probability for meat burger consumers is approximately one fifth of that observed for vegan burger consumers. These findings have implications to effectively marketing plant-based meat products to different consumer groups [EconLit Citations: D12, M37, M31, L66].</p>","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"40 3","pages":"680-698"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/agr.21916","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139920662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AgribusinessPub Date : 2024-02-17DOI: 10.1002/agr.21924
Xiaoke Zhu, Qiyun Deng
{"title":"The impacts of extreme heat on wage losses: Evidence from the Chinese agri-food industry","authors":"Xiaoke Zhu, Qiyun Deng","doi":"10.1002/agr.21924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/agr.21924","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the effects of extremely high temperatures on wage losses for workers in the Chinese agri-food industry. Our estimated results suggest extreme heat is associated with a decrease in worker wages, and that these welfare losses could be attributed to the adverse impacts of extremely hot days on worker productivity. We also observe that, compared to male workers, female workers are more likely to bear wage losses when exposed to extremely hot weather. Furthermore, workers in private firms may experience more wage losses due to extremely hot days than those in other ownership types. Regarding the industry-level heterogeneity analysis, we find that wage losses in the agri-food manufacturing industry are more severe than those in the agri-food processing industry, while no significant wage losses are observed in the beverages and alcohol industry. In the long term, wage losses induced by climate change are projected to rise by 10.93% under RCP8.5, if no extra adaptation actions are implemented. [EconLit Citations: O13, P46, Q54]","PeriodicalId":55544,"journal":{"name":"Agribusiness","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139920529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}