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Scope economies can be used in studies of farming systems to provide a measure of synergies between different farm enterprises and between activities within farm enterprises. In this paper, they are reported for farms in three benchmarking groups in Australia by estimating stochastic input...
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Out migration from rural areas is increasingly becoming a strategy to get out of poverty. While rice–based agriculture … remains to be the backbone in Southeast Asia, majority of the farming households particularly those who produce rice under …-economic factors on household income using data from 1,874 rice sample farming households in Vietnam (north and south), Thailand …
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Out migration from rural areas is increasingly becoming a strategy to get out of poverty. While rice–based agriculture … remains to be the backbone in Southeast Asia, majority of the farming households particularly those who produce rice under …-economic factors on household income using data from 1,874 rice sample farming households in Vietnam (north and south), Thailand …
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Sugarcane farmers in many districts are considering on-farm water storages (OFWS’s) as a means of countering ongoing …
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This study explores the extent to which various factors affect Fijian cane farmers’ adoption of soil conservation measures. The significant factors affecting perception of the soil erosion problem are age, ethnicity, and extension education, while the significant factors affecting soil...
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Sugarcane in a perennial crop harvested annually over a six-month season from June to December. Each crop cycle … consists of a plant crop followed by several ratoon crops. Time of harvest influences both commercial cane sugar (CCS) content …
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livestock numbers and including district-level equilibrium conditions on optimal farm plans in the Qingyang district of Gansu … growing subsidies the total area of lucerne grown by all modelled households falls by 18%. Increasing livestock numbers by 25 … trade in forages is included in the model, total livestock numbers held by all 96 households rise from 502 to 838, this …
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rise in profitability of cereals, oleaginous crops and beef cattle, we seek to identify the main elements that will allow …
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Beef cattle contribute about 7% of national greenhouse gas emissions through the release of methane into the atmosphere. Cattle in northern Australia produce more methane per unit of beef produced because of tropical (C4) grasses and slower average growth rates. In this paper the level of...
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provides empirical evidence of quality responses to government policies for wheat policy implemented in France. Analysis is … multiplication), quality measures, and experimental yields for each wheat variety grown in France between 1973 and 1999. Results show … statistically signi¯cant changes in the distribution of wheat produced across quality classes, and in quality and yield indexes …
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