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This book addresses numerous issues related to agricultural prices, land-use planning, farm size, the role of trade, agricultural organizations, human capital, and rural poverty. It discusses the great technological achievements on crop research in both Taiwan and the Mainland.
List of contents
List of: Tables and lllustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Walter P. Falcon -- PART ONE OVERVIEW AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 1. Overview / Peter Calkins, Wen S. Chern, and Francis C. Tuan -- 2. Chinese Rural Development: Historical Parallels and Recent Hypotheses / Peter Calkins -- 3. Economic vs. Noneconomic Factors in Chinese Rural Development / D. Gale /ohnson -- PART TWO INSTITUTIONS -- Introduction to Part Two / Francis C. Tuan -- 4. Technological Choice in Chinese Agriculture / Justin Yifu Lin Discussion: Wen-Fu Hsu -- 5. Institutional Organizations in Taiwan's Agricultural Development / Yu-Kang Mao Discussion: Liu Zhicheng -- PART THREE PRICES, COSTS, AND INCOMES -- Introduction to Part Three / Peter Calkins -- 6. Prices, Income, and Farm Policy in Taiwan / Tso-Kwei Peng Discussion: Guangsen Wang -- 7. Prices, Costs, and Farm Income in Mainland China: Rules of Farmer Behavior in a Uniquely Mixed Economy / An Xi-Ji Discussion: Carson Kung-Hsien Wu -- PART FOUR TRADE AND COMPETITION -- Introduction to Part Four / WenS.Chern -- 8. China's Agricultural Trade and Prospects in Foreign Competition / NiuRuofeng Discussion: Shin-Hsing Yeh -- 9. Taiwan's Agricultural Trade and Prospects in Foreign Competition / Hsi-huang Chen Discussion: Zhu Daohua -- PART FIVE GRAIN AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT -- 10. The Growing Grain Deficit and Its Implications for China's Developmental Strategy / Dwight H. Perkins -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index.
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Peter Calkin, Wen S. Chern and Francis C. Tuan
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This book addresses numerous issues related to agricultural prices, land-use planning, farm size, the role of trade, agricultural organizations, human capital, and rural poverty. It discusses the great technological achievements on crop research in both Taiwan and the Mainland.
