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price levels. Partial equilibrium analysis of wheat markets suggests that fluctuations in production, rather than market …
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The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and …
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Knowledge of demand structure and consumer behaviour is essential for a wide range of development policy questions like improvement in nutritional status, food subsidy, sectoral and macroeconomic policy analysis, etc. An analysis of food consumption patterns and how they are likely to shift with...
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This paper documents the activities of the National Food Authority (NFA), particularly on rice marketing, in realizing … volume of paddy rice to procure from farmers to be able to defend its support price; how much volume of rice to maintain in … order to achieve stability in the supply and consumer price, and; how much volume of rice, as well as when is the best time …
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timely, accurate, and appropriate intervention in the countrys rice market. If the Philippines is to achieve sustained …Rice has been a pivotal political commodity since the Commonwealth because of its importance as a staple food and … continue as twin priority objectives of the government regimes in the Philippines. Using a political economy perspective, this …
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Rice innovations are technologies and practices extensively adopted so as to change production practices and … productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production …
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the traditional to modern to futuristic - rice becomes all of these while traversing time in the Philippines. There is …This paper introduces rice to the reader and analyzes the changes it has gone through these past 100 years in the …. Landrace rice, pureline selection rice, crossbred rice, semidwarf rice, hybrid rice, new plant type rice, designer rice - from …
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This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its usefulness, and that continuing with the same only stifles growth in foodgrains, with very little welfare...
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Many developing countries are re-orienting their production and marketing systems by linking local agri-producers with organized supply chain networks and supermarkets to meet increasing consumer demands. However, the existing literature is silent on the effects of such integration on relative...
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Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty and emerging threats to food security. While growth can be achieved by expansion of agricultural area and input intensification, growth through improvement in productivity is a...
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