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seed. If she maximizes her present-value profits, optimal farming is shown to depend on the prices of pesticide or to apply … state mice populations only, it may be optimal to eradicate mice or to use no or a moderate amount of pesticide depending on …
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farming is shown to depend on the prices of pesticide and grain. It is either optimal to use no pesticide or a moderate amount … of pesticide or to apply a chattering control. Pest eradication is never optimal. On the other hand, if the farmer takes … pesticide depending on prices as well as on the shape of the grain production function which is determined by micro parameters …
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augmenting the role of capital, in combination with productivity gains, as a driver of agricultural growth. The results indicate … that total factor productivity increased at an average rate of 3.2 percent, accounting for 59 percent of overall growth …
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negatively. The study also shows the effect of farm size on productivity. …
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Throughout the past years, agricultural technological inputs have been actively evolving with a moderate rate of technology adoption. The adoption of agricultural technological inputs has been encouraged by, among others, escalating demand in the food sector in both developed and developing...
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impact of inorganic pesticide and fertiliser use on agricultural productivity and the economy at the national and European … that will estimate the correlation between a possible 50% decrease in pesticide use and a 20% decrease in fertiliser use …, and the level of agricultural productivity in European countries and, implicitly, Romania. The originality of the paper …
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Pesticides are important materials for agricultural production, and increasing the output efficiency of pesticide use … capital to form a virtuous development circle. By creating the indicator that the output added value per unit pesticide use … and collecting large amounts of data to account the efficiency of agricultural pesticide application in provinces and …
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investigate how organic cultivation techniques contribute to productivity of non-subsidized local maize and what to expect from … techniques for estimating impacts. Productivity of local maize-bean, local maize-groundnut and local maize-nkhwana, each combined … with livestock and chemical fertilizer, is shown to be statistically similar to productivity of fertilized maize mono …
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