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This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm pro duction in Bangladesh using a large dataset on … ascertain the effect of education on productivity and efficiency. A full set of proxies for farm education stock variables are … context of rural neighborhoods. Our analysis reveals that in addition to raising rice productivity and boosting potential …
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affordability of food in Bangladesh, threatening to reverse the progress made in poverty reduction and hunger elimination achieved … in the past decade. In this paper, we examine the direct and indirect linkages between agriculture and nutrition in … Bangladeshi households, with a focus on rice. We first investigate the factors of rice productivity at plot, household, and …
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productivity and its impacts on production, trade and prices of primary agriculture, and ultimately, food processing sectors. We … impacts that changes in agricultural productivity might have for seven food industry sectors, namely meat, vegetable oils and …
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agricultural production, consumption and trade, and resulted in significant agricultural productivity improvements. However, there … of this study is to measure and compare the levels and trends in agricultural productivity in transition countries with … those of the European Union (EU) countries making use of the most recent data available from the Food and Agriculture …
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This paper investigates the contribution of the Brazilian agriculture to economic growth of the Brazilian economy. It …
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In order to evaluate food security, technology potential and the environmental impacts of production in a strategic and regional context, it is critical to have reliable information on the spatial distribution and coincidence of people, agricultural production, and environmental services. This...
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Based on the “growth drag” conceptual model of Romer, this paper computes the growth drag of water resource on agricultural development through using panel data(1997~2006) of China’s all provinces. The result shows the growth rate of agricultural production value fell 0.1121% per year on...
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This study analyses the impact of income inequality on agricultural production among sample of farm households in rural and urban areas of Ekiti-state, Nigeria. The study used primary and secondary data. Descriptive analysis, Gini coefficient and Regression analysis were used to analyzed the...
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Traditional irrigation water management systems in China are increasingly replaced by user-based, participatory management through water users associations (WUAs) with the purpose to promote more efficient water use and higher farm incomes. Existing research shows that significant differences...
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factors influencing agriculture technical efficiency include regional industrial structure, mechanical intensity, the quality …
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