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This study analyzes the potential impact of climate change and the uncertainty of CO2 fertilization on China's corn …, wheat and rice domestic agricultural markets and the international markets out to the year 2050. The study provides a brief …
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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 …
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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 …
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The only commercial genetically modified (GM) subsistence food crop is white maize in South Africa, which was released in 2001/2. This paper reports on the performance of insect resistant (Bt) white maize grown by smallholders in Hlabisa, KwaZulu Natal, where the other development is minimum...
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The grain sector plays a crucial role in China's agriculture. The government has intervened heavily in grain marketing, markets, and price formation. The objectives of market and price intervention are to secure farmer incomesa nd ensure consumer food supply at low prices. The economic reform...
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moderate import tariff on the most highly protected commodities: soyabeans, sugar, and wheat. Full trade liberalization … generates larger net welfare gains than free trade with moderate tariffs. However, a moderate tariff on soyabeans, wheat, and …
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This paper measures the impact of US monetary policy on prices and trade in the workd coarse grains market. A long-run, nonlinear, nonspatial price equilibrium world model of the coarse grains market was constructed that endogenizes the US exchange rate while implicity accounting for the pricing...
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Based on a case study, this paper analyses China's current price and subsidy policy for grain and discusses some questions relating to the reorientation of this policy. First, the pricing system for the grain market, especially that for the state-run grain marketing agencies, is illustrated....
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The impact of an ad valorem export tax on Pakistan's Basmati rice trade is analysed in a partial equilibrium framework. Results suggest that producers of Basmati rice lost a considerable amount of their producer surplus while consumers gained in terms of their consumer surplus. The national...
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