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agriculture. Also the paper extracts consensus message about MTE and its drivers in Nigerian agriculture based on studies covering … eighty six observations for the econometric analysis. The regression results show that MTE in Nigerian agriculture increased … agriculture over the years. …
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In the northern part of Bangladesh a large proportion of land is medium and low-lying which are subjected to the risk of flooding from heavy rains during the month of August and September. Consecutive days of heavy rains after the crop establishment causes flash floods leading to death of...
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for three typical marketing chains in Nanjing area, P.R. China. The impacts of the transaction costs to the supply chain …
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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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A serious concern has been raised recently on the long run sustainability of the productivity effects of Green … ecosystem. However, the changes in physical yield are not true measures of productivity from efficiency perspective. Total … factor productivity (TFP) is a true measure of economic efficiency of any technology impact. The paper addresses the crucial …
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China has embarked on a major program to modernise agricultural and agribusiness structures with far reaching … in high-value agrifood chains, China should pursue a more incremental and facilitative approach based around developing …
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This study analyzed relationship between techn ical efficiency and socio-economic variables of cassava farmers in Nigeria. Data were collected from randomly sampled 360 cassava farmers in Nigeria using a structured questionnaire. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics comprising...
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A household-level switching regression model is implemented to examine potential selectivity bias for rural households under high and low levels of investments in soil conservation in El Salvador and Honduras. In the presence of selectivity bias, separate stochastic production frontiers are...
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There has been a decline in crop productivity in Kenya, a situation that has contributed to the raising food insecurity … 2005), there is need to examine crop productivity in male and female managed farms and do a diagnosis of factors that lead … to low productivity in female headed households and hence their higher vulnerability to food insecurity. This paper aims …
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