date:Feb 20, 2014
China should focus on agricultural cooperatives to ensure better food safety and quality, industry experts said at a meeting on Wednesday.
Partnerships between farmers and firms can ensure product safety and quality via agricultural cooperatives, said Yin Chengjie, head of the Chinese Association of Agricultural Economics.
China has more than 980,000 agricultural cooperatives involving more than 74 million farming households, or around 28.5 percent of the country's total.
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