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Milk Supply Chain and Efficiency of Smallholder Dairy Producers in Pakistan
Burki, Abid A.; Khan, Mushtaq A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
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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Scenarios and Options for Productivity Growth in Philippine Agriculture An Application of the AMPLE
2010, February - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
Sustaining and accelerating agricultural growth remains a development imperative in view of persistent rural poverty … making domestic investments targeted at productivity growth. Scenarios for Philippine agriculture under these policy options … liberalization alone has a contractionary effect on agriculture; and production support is a costly instrument for promoting …
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Improving the Business Climate in NTT : The Case of Agriculture Trade in West Timor
Suharyo, Widjajanti Isdijoso; Sumarto, Sudarno; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Efforts to improve the business climate in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province are still facing significant obstacles. Moreover, a healthy business climate is needed to create conditions conducive to hastening development, increasing the employment field, and adding to local revenue. In...
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The Limited Promise of Agricultural Trade Liberalization
Wise, Timothy A. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
agro-fuels, may keep prices high for a few years, it is unlikely to fundamentally alter the structure of global agriculture …
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Climate Variability, SCF, and Corn Farming in Isabela, Philippines : a Farm and Household Level Analysis
Reyes, Celia M.; Domingo, Sonny N.; Mina, Christian D.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Seasonal Climate Forecast (SCF) is one of the tools, which could help farmers and decision makers better prepare for seasonal variability. Using probabilistic principles in projecting climatic deviations, SCF allows farmers to make informed decisions on the proper choice of crop, cropping...
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Assessing the Value of SCFs on Farm-level Corn Production through Simulation Modeling
Reyes, Celia M.; Gonzales, Kathrina G.; Predo, Canesio D.; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Rainfall variability greatly influences corn production. Thus, an accurate forecast is potentially of value to the farmers because it could help them decide whether to grow their corn now or to delay it for the next cropping opportunity. A decision tree analysis was applied in estimating the...
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Assessing the Impact of International Natural Resource Management Research - The Case of Zero Tillage in India’s Rice-Wheat Systems
Laxmi, Vijay; Erenstein, Olaf - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
A conservative ex-ante assessment of supply-shift gains alone (excluding social and environmental gains), shows that the investment in zero tillage (ZT) R&D by the Rice-Wheat Consortium and CIMMYT was highly beneficial with a benefit-cost ratio of 39, a net present value of US$ 94 million and an...
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The State of Pakistan’s Dairy Sector : An Assessment
Burki, Abid A.; Khan, Mushtaq A.; Bari, Faisal - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
While there is a plethora of research documenting a multitude of dimensions of the crop sector of Pakistan, there is virtual absence of meaningful economic analysis of the dairy economy that is surprising. No serious attempt has been made in the past to clarify the micro-level potential of this...
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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Himalayas
Micevska, Maja; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households incomes in the Himalayas. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us...
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Technical Efficiency of Major Food and Cash Crops in Karnataka (India)
Kalirajan, K P; Bhende, M J - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Among the important issues debated in the current phase pertaining to the agricultural sector include the expectations about the next technological phase and the efficiency parameters during the current phase. Growing population as well as income enhances the demand for agricultural products and...
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