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Food crises triggered by high prices had been experienced in agricultural markets in the past. However, the current state of agricultural markets has raised a lot of concerns to policy makers, media, the public and all stakeholders. This is against the background of the fact that only a selected...
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Since independence in 1956, the structure of domestic production and export sectors, the level of capacities to absorb economic shocks, and the historically market-oriented nature of the economy, when taken collectively, they constitutes distinguishing characteristics of Sudan economy at...
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The study presents a comparative analysis of eight Vegetation Indices (VIs) used to examine vegetation greenness over the northern coasts of Iceland. The geographical extent of the study area is set by the coordinates of the two fjords, Eyjafjörður and Skagafjörður, notable for their...
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The paper enumerates several physiological processes that take place at the Campion corn hybrid and the interaction between the hybrid in the irrigated and un-irrigated culture, as well as the appliance of NP fertilizers. To obtain performances at this type of corn culture, soil analyses were...
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Conventional input intensive agriculture practised over the last century has been a major contributor to climate change, second only to energy sector. The communities engaged in pesticide and synthetic input rich agriculture is most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Many emerging...
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We assess 47 peer-reviewed articles that have applied stated economics methods to measure the farm-level impacts of Bt cotton in developing agriculture from 1996. We focus on methods, although findings are also contrasted and compared in qualitative terms. The central research question assessed...
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Pulses are major source of protein and an integral part to Indian's diet. But, there has been consistent demand-supply gap. Barring last 5 years, total production of pulses remained stagnant at 12-14 million tonnes over past five decades. Over the last 20 years, more than 550 improved varieties...
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This paper investigates a number of factors influencing technical efficiency of Greek farms participating in the 1994 European Union farm credit program. Technical efficiency measures are obtained within the framework of a parametric stochastic frontier. Factors showing a positive effect on...
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The rest of the world knows Afghanistan for civil war, terrorism and opium cultivation but for the government and the common people the real big and important issues are development, peace and prosperity. From the conditions under which Afghanistan finds it self at present, to take the country...
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About forty lakh hectare of land is under cotton cultivation in Maharashtra. Once known as the prosperous cotton-belt; today the irony is that the state tops the list when it comes to suicides by farmers. Further, almost all of them are cotton farmers mostly from Vidarbha. At present, Vidarbha...
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