Notice of RetractionPromotion effect and its determinants of agricultural flagship enterprise on farmers implementing agriculture standards: A case study in Zhejiang, China

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Agricultural flagship enterprises have become one of most important elements and backbone in process of agricultural standardization in China, for the reason that they allow farmers to cultivar more efficiency and higher their agrarian product´s incomes. This paper presents an index of forward flagship enterprises and farmers´ integration, which also proposes a framework whereby authors use an econometric analysis to examine the promotion effect and its determinants on agricultural enterprises´ choices among scales of promoting farmers´ implementation of agricultural standards. Empirical results indicated that coefficients between demonstration effect and brand, market channel and government support are significant. Suggestions on current development of agribusiness in Zhejiang province are also discussed in the paper.