Tobacco Crop Substitution

Pilot Effort in China

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ID11037271
AutoresVirginia C Li (0000-0002-8678-3493, Virginia C. Li is with the Fielding School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles. Qiongli Wang and Ning Xia are with the Yuxi Municipality Bureau of Agriculture, Yunnan, China. Songyuan Tang is with Kunming Medical College, Yunnan. Caroline C. Wang is a consultant and writer.), Qiongli Wang (0000-0003-3561-0274, Virginia C. Li is with the Fielding School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles. Qiongli Wang and Ning Xia are with the Yuxi Municipality Bureau of Agriculture, Yunnan, China. Songyuan Tang is with Kunming Medical College, Yunnan. Caroline C. Wang is a consultant and writer.), Ning Xia (0000-0002-5553-1752, Virginia C. Li is with the Fielding School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles. Qiongli Wang and Ning Xia are with the Yuxi Municipality Bureau of Agriculture, Yunnan, China. Songyuan Tang is with Kunming Medical College, Yunnan. Caroline C. Wang is a consultant and writer.), Songyuan Tang (0000-0002-2324-1726, Virginia C. Li is with the Fielding School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles. Qiongli Wang and Ning Xia are with the Yuxi Municipality Bureau of Agriculture, Yunnan, China. Songyuan Tang is with Kunming Medical College, Yunnan. Caroline C. Wang is a consultant and writer.), Caroline C Wang (Virginia C. Li is with the Fielding School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles. Qiongli Wang and Ning Xia are with the Yuxi Municipality Bureau of Agriculture, Yunnan, China. Songyuan Tang is with Kunming Medical College, Yunnan. Caroline C. Wang is a consultant and writer.)
Ano2012
Volume102
Fascículo9
Páginas1660-1663
Data de publicação2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditoraAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2012.300733
PMID22813422
PMCIDPMC3482040
OpenAlexW2104579383
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas1

In China, approximately 20 million farmers produce the world's largest share of tobacco. Showing that income from crop substitution can exceed that from tobacco growth is essential to persuading farm families to stop planting tobacco, grown abundantly in Yunnan Province. In the Yuxi Municipality, collaborators from the Yuxi Bureau of Agriculture and the University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health initiated a tobacco crop substitution project. At 3 sites, 458 farm families volunteered to participate in a new, for-profit cooperative model. This project successfully identified an approach engaging farmers in cooperatives to substitute food crops for tobacco, thereby increasing farmers’ annual income between 21% and 110% per acre

Acre · Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Agriculture · Business · China · Crop · Cultivation of tobacco · Economics · Environmental health · Geography · Public health · Substitution (logic) · Agricultural Development and Management · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Environmental Science · Forestry · Medicine