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Agribusiness Perspectives Papers 2001China's Joining the WTO: Opportunities for the Australian Agribusiness SectorWei-Ming Tian, College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing China and AbstractChina first applied to join the GATT (now the WTO) in July 1986. After almost 16 years of painstaking negotiations, China is very close to joining the WTO. When China gets accepted into the WTO, a market with 1.3 billion consumers will be more widely open to the rest of the world. This market represents enormous opportunities for exporters and investors of many other countries. Undoubtedly, it will also bring opportunities to the agribusiness sectors of both China and other countries. Farm Management Economic Analysis: A Few Disciplines, a Few Perspectives, a Few Figurings, a Few Futures.Bill Malcolm AbstractThe request to write this paper whose working title was ‘Something about Farm Management Economics' – a paper that was first presented to the year 2000 annual conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society - came from the President of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society David Pannell who, by making this request, unwittingly cast himself in the role of the piano player in the brothel: implicated but having no moral responsibility for the goings-on. My riding instructions from David Pannell were as follow:
That is a contract. What follows, properly titled ‘Farm Management Economic Analysis: a Few Disciplines, a Few Perspectives, a Few Figurings, a Few Futures', is intended to be about farm management economic analysis, with farm management economic analysis having both particular and general meaning. Though as is their wont, the deconstructionists will make of it what they want. Evaluating the Export Growth Strategy of the Australian Pork IndustryGlenn Ronan, Jack Langberg and Michael Moore Abstract
A qualitative evaluation of the growth prospects for pork exports from Australia in both the short-term and the longer-term is presented with consideration of key strengths, including Australia's favourable environment for minimal-disease pig farming, product differentiation and freight logistics, weaknesses in small size and domestic feed-grain dependence and threats from imports. “When there is a split in the path ahead always take the hardest route.” Paraphrased quote from Nepalese proverb cited in the film, Himalaya, 1999 (released in Australia in December, 2000) J.H. Kelly RevisitedDr. Glen McLaren Abstract Historians are a capricious lot. Schools of thought wax and wane, sympathies shift and slide, and yesterday's dogma is today excused as naivety. And so it is with assessments of the Northern Territory pastoral industry. For the past several decades Northern Territory cattlemen have been intensely criticised by academics, the media and commentators for a variety of reasons, most notably their alleged mistreatment of Aboriginal employees and dependants. While some of this criticism has been warranted there is now very clear evidence that Territory cattlemen have also been subjected to intemperate, ill-informed and inaccurate charges. Dairy Mergers and the National InterestRobin Johnson Abstract Wheat Economy of India: Development, Nature and Trade ProspectsVasant P. Gandhi, Zhang-Yue Zhou and John Mullen Abstract Wheat production in India has increased by over ten times in the past five decades and India has become the second largest wheat producer in the world. Today wheat plays an increasingly important role in the management of India's food economy. However, studies that research the wheat economy of the country as a whole remain scarce. This present study examines the characteristics and developments of India's evolving wheat economy. Changing Patterns of Feedgrain Production and Marketing in ChinaXian Xin, Wei-Ming Tian and Zhang-Yue Zhou AbstractIncreased disposable income has, in the past two decades, led Chinese consumers to demanding more animal products. China's animal husbandry industry has responded to this demand by producing more animal products. Indeed, not only has this increase in animal products been very impressive in recent years, but it has been achieved with little feedgrain imports. The question as to whether China's domestic resources will be able to continue supplying the animal husbandry industry with the needed feedgrains has attracted much attention from government officials and academics both within and outside China. Many believe that China's future demand for feedgrain will exceed its supply and imports are inevitable. Among the many factors that affect the quantity of feedgrain that China will import are two important ones: China's own capacity to produce and its feedgrain marketing arrangements. It is thus imperative to examine closely the changing patterns of China's feedgrain production and marketing. This paper fulfils this task by providing some important facts and updating information of the latest developments that are related to China's feedgrain production and marketing. Supply Chain Management: Fad, Panacea or Opportunity?Anthony J. Dunne Abstract Supply chain management has certainly been one of the hottest topics in agribusiness management circles over the past five years. But, what is supply chain management? What are its benefits? What, if anything, is its relevance to agribusiness and in particular to farmers? A qualitative description of the benefits and costs associated with agribusiness supply chain management: A producer's perspectivePeter Nicholas AbstractSupply Chain Management is attracting increasing attention in agribusiness worldwide. Growing consumer concerns over food safety and quality together with retailer demands for large volumes of consistent and reliable product are driving the need for closer supply chain integration. By analysing a number of existing case studies this paper seeks to identify some of the supply chain related strategies or tactics available to agribusiness companies, contextual factors related to their use, and the likely types of benefits and costs associated with their implementation. |
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