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The paper attempts to identify the impact of market power in the Hungarian milk chain. Since the conventional conjectural variation approach provides suspicious results the incentives to collude are discussed in an alternative framework. It is argued that the high degree of market transparency,...
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In this paper, we evaluate the role of market power by retailers within the supply chain of Parmigiano Reggiano and Grana Padano, the two most famous Italian quality cheeses. Market power is analysed in the context of an imperfect competition model of the supply chain, in which retailers are...
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In the recent past, the concentration of seed maize processing and marketing in Kenya has raised serious public concerns. The inability of this industry to ensure affordable prices of certified seed maize for the farming community has led policy makers to question its market behaviour. In spite...
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In the paper, we analyze two issues that are important in the U.S. peanut markets: the absence of explicit quality premiums in the crop contracts, and the thinness of the postharvest cash/spot markets, which obstructs the operation of current production support policies. We argue that...
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This paper investigates the roles of industrial cluster on the efficiency of rice milling and the improvement of milled … innovation increases milling efficiency and improves 1 milling quality. Moreover, it is found from the estimation of price …
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This research aims at shedding empirical light on the relative efficiency of small-scale maize producers in Romania … estimated due to the imposition of curvature correctness and the effects on the individual efficiency estimates are shown. The … empirical results show a relative high technical efficiency of the small-scale farmers but relatively poor scores on systematic …
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productivity and efficiency levels in maize production in CA and conventional farming. The analysis is based on a three year panel … technical efficiency between CA and conventional farming. Study results indicate that CA technology is implemented in relatively …. Technical efficiency levels are generally the same (about 68%) for both technologies. Two-thirds of farmers achieve efficiency …
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This paper examines the efficiency and welfare impact of landholdings in rural Vietnam. We utilize panel data set from … hypothesis that small farmers in the north survey area have an advantage of efficiency in rice production. Since, although we …
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economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder … efficiency components and a two-limit Tobit model is used to derive efficiency indices as a function of a vector of socio … efficiency is 0.39 with a range of 0.12 - 0.66. Education, access to extension, access to credit and membership in a farmers …
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The economic analysis of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) vis-à-vis conventional method of rice cultivation was assessed in Bardhaman district of West Bengal during 2009-10. The cost-returns analysis of SRI method revealed that the cost of raising nursery for one ha main field...
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