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The Effect of Export Tax on Indonesia’s Cocoa Export Competitiveness
Rifin, Amzul; Nauly, Dahlia - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013
world demand which is mainly caused by the decrease of competitiveness. Comparing the three cocoa beans producer, Ghana has …The government of Indonesia implemented an export tax policy on cocoa beans since April 2010 in order to develop cocoa … processing industry. The objective of this article is to analyze the effect of export tax on Indonesia’s cocoa export …
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Comparative marketing performance between the Peruvian Cooperatives and the Intermediaries: Acopagro cooperative vs. Intermediaries- a Case Study
Higuchi, Angie; Moritaka, Masahiro; Fukuda, Susumu - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
In the Peruvian jungle, there are two main cocoa marketing channels: the intermediaries and the cooperative. For … alternative crop like cocoa which gives small scale farmers a sustainable welfare. Despite the fact that the Acopagro cooperative … commercializing their cocoa via the intermediaries. A further analysis of cocoa prices was carried out through personal interviews and …
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The Potential of Cacao Agribusiness for Poverty Alleviation in West Sumatra
Hasnah; Fleming, Euan M.; Villano, Renato A.; Patrick, Ian - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011
order to investigate the potential contribution of cacao agribusiness development to poverty alleviation, which is not … covered by other participatory approaches; and (2) can be used to identify stakeholders‟ relationships for cacao agribusiness …
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Estimating Non-Market Environmental Benefits of the Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program: a choice modeling approach
Wang, Xuehong; Bennett, Jeffrey W. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
The non-use values of the environmental benefits derived from the Conversion of Cropland to Forest and Grassland Program in the Loess Plateau region were estimated using a choice modeling survey both on-site in Xi’an and Ansai and off-site in Beijing. Separate choice models were estimated for...
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Measuring Groundwater Irrigation Efficiency in Pakistan: A DEA Approach Using the Sub-vector and Slack-based Models
Watto, Muhammad - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013
We estimate the efficiency of groundwater use in cotton production in the Punjab province of Pakistan. We use a survey data of 189 cotton producers comprising 98 tube-well owners and 91 water buyers in order to get the differential impact of tube-well ownership on groundwater use efficiency. We...
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Hybrid Rice: Economic Assessment of a Promising Technology for Sustainable Food Grain Production in Bangladesh
Azad, Md Abdus Samad; Mustafi, B.A.A.; Hossain, Mahabub - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008
Hybrid rice, one of the viable and proven technologies has been considered as a new frontier to increase rice production for meeting growing demand for staple food in Bangladesh. Using farm survey data this paper examines comparative profitability of hybrid and inbred rice cultivation and...
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Optimal Feed Mill Blending
Tozer, Peter R.; Stokes, Jeffrey R. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
Commercial feed blending is a complex process consisting of many potential raw ingredients and final products. The sheer number of daily orders and final products at a typical feed mill means that raw ingredients cannot be mixed to directly produce final products in an economical fashion. As a...
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FOOD POLICY AND POVERTY: A GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS FOR INDONESIA
Warr, Peter G. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005
The distributional effects of trade policies involving food are always controversial, particularly in countries for which staple foods are net imports. Indonesia is the world’s largest importer of its staple food, rice, and this commodity simultaneously accounts, in its consumption, for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010882131
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Funding and Managing Agricultural Research in a Developing Country: a Papua New Guinea case study
Omuru, Eric; Kingwell, Ross S. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005
Agricultural R&D in many developing countries plays an important economic role. However, to sustain successful agricultural R&D requires adequate, reliable funding and sound management and governance. In many developing countries, generating reliable flows of R&D funds and ensuring their proper...
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DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE SYSTEMS IN VIETNAM
Petersen, Elizabeth H.; Lever, Caroline; Schilizzi, Steven - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005
A bioeconomic model of reservoir aquaculture in northern Vietnam, called BRAVO, is presented. The biological model is based on a conventional von Bertalanffy growth function and the economic model is a net revenue function. The greatest source of costs for the operation are restocking costs (75...
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