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Brazil is a continental country, with more than 8 million square kilometers and many biomes, which have permanent … preservation areas and legal reserves protected by the Forest Code. On the other hand, Brazil is an agricultural country, that …
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the first phase, in the weakening of the developmental performances in agriculture. Such tendencies widened the gap … productivity. Unfavorable tendencies in agricultural productivity adversely affected its competitiveness, and, consequently, the … rural economy is determined by the importance of agriculture in the rural economy, which is substantial in the West Balkan …
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Brazil`s rice markets. In response to changes of the agricultural policies during the period of investigation, the presence …
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importance of Brazil’s ethanol policies on world commodity markets and provides insights on how the Brazilian government can …
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Nitrogen is an important input to agricultural production but also detrimentally affects the environmental quality of air, soil and water. Identifying the determinants of nitrate pollution and in turn defining sensible performance indicators to design, enforce and monitor regulatory policies is...
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result in the appropriate use of time and capacity of the agricultural machines. In some sectors, such as agriculture or …
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The paper provides an analysis of the impacts of the biofuel policy on the French arable crop sub-sector. The model used is a biofuel supply model composed of an agricultural module and an industrial biofuel processing module. The agricultural supply model is an aggregation of 1094 farm models,...
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agricultural area producing 13% of the food grains of India. Increased productivity brought economic benefits to farmers and led to … productivity level. This paper compares the economic sustainability of WRCP to that of other alternative cropping patterns in …
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This study contributes to the understanding of behavioural responses to climate change induced extreme weather events. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affected individuals. The method is outlined using the empirical case of agricultural...
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This paper uses representative farm account data for 1985-2007 to estimate stochastic production frontiers in the form of input distance functions for Danish crop, dairy and pig farms. The objective is to study and compare scale economies for the three farm types. The estimated technical...
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