Abstract:

The National Model Society of Specialized Farmers' Cooperatives is a model organization established at the national level to promote and demonstrate the good experience and practices of specialized farmers' cooperatives. It is supported and guided by the government, enjoys the support of special policies and resources, and assumes the responsibility of leading by example. The construction of basic information data set of national model cooperatives can provide data basis for evaluating the effect of cooperative support policies, and on this basis can provide decision-making reference for the government to formulate high-quality development policies for new agricultural business entities. Based on the Interim Measures for the Assessment and Monitoring of National Demonstration Cooperatives for Specialized Farmers (Agricultural Economic Development (2013) No. 10, hereinafter referred to as the Measures), this data set collects and collates the list of National Demonstration Cooperatives for Specialized Farmers published by relevant ministries and commissions from 2014 to 2020, and matches the years when they were selected and removed from the list of National Demonstration Cooperatives. As well as the year of establishment, the year of withdrawal (note cancellation), and the county-level administrative division of the location, the panel data including the information of more than 10,000 national model cooperatives are finally formed. Through this data set, we can better understand the life cycle and survival of high-quality farmer cooperatives in different regions, and deeply analyze the regional differences in the high-quality development of cooperatives and the driving factors behind them.

Key words: The National Model Society of Specialized Farmers' Cooperatives, panel data, new agricultural business entities, high-quality development of cooperatives