A Preliminary Study on Efficient Agricultural Short Chain Practices in Urban Agriculture Environment of China

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10.2991/ssemse-15.2015.399How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Short Chain; Urban Agriculture; "Pick Your Own"; Efficiency; DEA

Abstract

In developing countries, Urban Agriculture (UA) mainly focuses on providing sufficient safe food to cities. “Pick Your Own” fresh produce supply chain is one of the most popular short supply chain models in cities of China. A pilot research on fresh vegetables has been conducted in presenting situations and finding out relationship of vegetable farm households, vegetable supply chains and in calculating supply chain efficiency (DEA model has be tried). It presents the possibility of using DEA model in calculating supply chain efficiency, to guide farmer in improving practices.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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