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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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ethanol plant established in an area with a beef feeding industry. The study concludes that corn transportation costs are less … calculated for the ethanol plant, corn producers and beef producers under different market situations and changes. …
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Systemic weather risk is a major obstacle for the formation of private (nonsubsidized) crop insurance. This paper explores the possibility of spatial diversification of insurance by estimating the joint occurrence of unfavorable weather conditions in different locations. For that purpose copula...
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Groundnut is an important component of the national food supply. It does not only have nutritional and dietary value, groundnut also provides cash to farmers; enrich the soil with nitrogen through biological nitrogen fixation; and its haulms can be used as fodder and fuel. Groundnut production...
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The purpose of this study is to assess the potential of clustering in the development of agriculture and rural communities in China. We shall examine in detail the food industry, which is the link in the food chain that propels the industrialization of agriculture, and identify instances of...
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these models is presented and critical aspects are discussed. Optimal strategies are then applied to the wheat market in …
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The deregulation of Ghana’s domestic cocoa supply chain that took place in the early 1990s was expected to bring competition among different private buyers and to generate a number of production incentives to the farmers. Most notably, it was expected that competition would emerge by means of...
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