State and market interaction: cotton variety and seed market development in china
- Literature reference
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- Author
- M. Fok and N. Xu
- English title of the work
- State and market interaction: cotton variety and seed market development in china
- Title of the work
- State and market interaction: cotton variety and seed market development in china
- Year of publication
- 2008
- Author's email
- michel.fok@cirad.fr
- Publisher's address
- Montpellier
- URL Address
- https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00324379v1
- Countries concerned
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China
- Associated thesauruses
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Colire
- Keywords Colire
Competitiveness
Market adaptation
Crop competitiveness
Biotechnology factor of production cost
Technology fee
GM seed use conditions
Quality requirements
Quality requirements
Market adaptation
Market requirements
Price fluctuations and volatility
Market risk management
Trading rules
Trading organisation
Market access
Market niches
Marketing strategy
Crop competitiveness
Crop income competitiveness
Market requirements
Trading requirements
Textile industry requirements
Price fluctuations and volatility
A index
Price volatility
Volatility factor
World stock
NYCE futures
World Price
Market risk management
NYCE Futures
Risk management tools
Futures market
Trading rules
Trading rules changes
Trading rules
ICA rules
Non-ICA rules
Trading organisation
Trading organizations
Cotton traders
Cotton commissioners
Market access
Market exploration
Importation markets
Market negotiation
Market preference
Importation demand
Market access
Marketing
Market niches
Fair-Trade market
Organic cotton market
Coloured cotton market
Market niche
Marketing strategy
Demand elasticities
Income elasticities
Price elasticities
Cross elasticities
Substitution elasticities
Marketing strategy
Measure description
Policy measures
Influence of private sector
Private sector
- Saved on
- 2011-12-14
- Modifed on
- 2011-12-14
- Administrated by
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Fok Michel
- Abstract
- La Chine est premier producteur mondial de coton depuis plus de 20 ans. L'adoption du coton transgénique, dès 1997, à travers de nombreuses variétés, lui a permis de maintenir son rang en surmontant le problème de résistance aux insecticides. La contribution variétale a résulté d'un
changement radical du cadre légal pour promouvoir les marchés des variétés et des semences.
Néanmoins, aujourd'hui, tous les acteurs du secteur coton admettent qu'il y a un gros problème de concurrence excessive à partir d'un grand nombre de variétés, responsable des mélanges de variétés et de semences. Cette situation a conduit le gouvernement chinois à décider une nouvelle politique de soutien à l'utilisation des semences de qualité. L'évolution de la politique chinoise dans le domaine des variétés et des semences offre un cas intéressant d'interaction entre l'Etat et le marché en l'espace de
vingt ans.
Notre papier est une contribution pour analyser le développement des marchés des variétés et des semences en nous penchant sur les interactions entre Etat et marché. Un changement dans la politique cotonnière, consistant à libérer les marchés des variétés et des semences, peut se révéler efficace quand les compétences et les capacités d'investissements existent au moment du changement de politique. Le success qui en résulte serait de courte durée en absence de régulation pour protéger le développement des marches d'une concurrence excessive et déloyale. Le cas étudié est une illustration des limites d'une concurrence non régulée. Il est cependant inefficace de réguler en imposant ce que les paysans
doivent utiliser. Une telle approche induit déjà des effets pervers en menaçant la viabilité des sociétés
semencières. - English abstract
- China is ranking first in cotton production for more than 20 years. The adoption of GM cotton, since 1997, through the marketing of many varieties, has enabled it to maintain its rank by overcoming the
pest resistance to insecticide. The varietal contribution has resulted from a radical change in the legal framework to enhance the variety and seed markets. Nevertheless, today, all cotton sector stakeholders do recognize that there is a big issue of excessive competition from a great number of varieties leading to variety and seed mixture. This situation has led the Chinese Government to decide on a new support policy called "quality seed subsidy policy". The Chinese policy in the areas of varieties and seeds
hence is providing an interesting case of interaction between policy and market within less than twenty years.
Our paper is a contribution to analyse the cotton variety and seed market development of the last twenty years by focussing on the interaction between State intervention and market. A change in the cotton policy, consisting of liberalizing the variety and seed markets, could prove to be quite successful where the capacities for breeding and investment exist prior to the policy change. This success nevertheless will remain a short term one if no regulation is provided to prevent the market development from excessive and unfair competition. The case analysed is a good llustration of the shortfalls of unregulated competition. It is however ineffective to regulate by imposing what farmers should use. Such a direct intervention in the market is showing undesired effects on the viability of
seed companies.