Agricultural cooperatives participating in vegetable supply chain integration: A case study of a trinity cooperative in China.

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...

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Autores principales: Lu Wang, Jianli Luo, Yuxia Liu
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1ea5b45decde4a46bded6a9610d1ecf52021-12-02T20:10:05ZAgricultural cooperatives participating in vegetable supply chain integration: A case study of a trinity cooperative in China.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0253668https://doaj.org/article/1ea5b45decde4a46bded6a9610d1ecf52021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253668https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Supply 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.Lu WangJianli LuoYuxia LiuPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 6, p e0253668 (2021)
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Lu Wang
Jianli Luo
Yuxia Liu
Agricultural cooperatives participating in vegetable supply chain integration: A case study of a trinity cooperative in China.
description 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.
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author Lu Wang
Jianli Luo
Yuxia Liu
author_facet Lu Wang
Jianli Luo
Yuxia Liu
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title Agricultural cooperatives participating in vegetable supply chain integration: A case study of a trinity cooperative in China.
title_short Agricultural cooperatives participating in vegetable supply chain integration: A case study of a trinity cooperative in China.
title_full Agricultural cooperatives participating in vegetable supply chain integration: A case study of a trinity cooperative in China.
title_fullStr Agricultural cooperatives participating in vegetable supply chain integration: A case study of a trinity cooperative in China.
title_full_unstemmed Agricultural cooperatives participating in vegetable supply chain integration: A case study of a trinity cooperative in China.
title_sort agricultural cooperatives participating in vegetable supply chain integration: a case study of a trinity cooperative in china.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/1ea5b45decde4a46bded6a9610d1ecf5
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