, wheat and rice domestic agricultural markets and the international markets out to the year 2050. The study provides a brief …

We seek to quantify and evaluate the supply (yield) response of wheat and cotton in Pakistan using cointegration … analysis and annual data for 1960-96. The results reveal that wheat supply is significantly influenced by the prices of wheat …, cotton, and fertilizer, the percentage area under high yielding wheat varieties, and the rabi season (winter) water …

The Punjab of India is an historical source of key wheat genetic resources in national and global plant breeding, and a … focus of concerns about the abandonment of local varieties during the Green Revolution. Much of the wheat area in Punjab was … more genetically similar and less productive than the semi-dwarf wheat varieties that succeeded them. We define, summarize …

China has made a major investment in biotechnology research. Genetically modified (GM) cotton is widely adopted and the …, our results indicate that the development of biotechnology has an important impact on China's production, trade and … welfare. Welfare gains far outweigh the public biotechnology research expenditures. Most gains occur inside China. Policy …

decisions of an individual risk averse farmer facing variability in both prices and yields. A set of stylised risk market … between government payments and the farmers’ use of risk market instruments in terms of the potential crowding out of such … of production and the use of risk market instruments that are endogenous. Single farm payment mitigates farmer’s efforts …

include adverse changes in both input and output prices, Agricultural risk can be categorized as production risk, price or … management strategies to overcome risk to greater extent. It is regarded as an essential part of well rounded agricultural … natural hazards. Compared to other traditional risk reducing strategies, such as crop diversification, inter-cropping, mixed …