carried out to estimate the wheat yield response function. The explanatory variables were economic, location and climatic … 1979-2009. Mixed and cotton-wheat zone of Punjab were selected for the analysis and Faisalabad and Bahawalpur were selected … from the above two zones respectively, mainly because of their major share in production of wheat. Dummy variable test and …

, and trade policies on wheat supply, demand, prices, and overall inflation. Analysis of price multipliers indicates that … determination in Pakistan, and that policies that promote the private sector wheat trade can both increase price stability and …This article provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of Pakistan government domestic wheat procurement, sales …

(wheat or dates) in calculating the probability of drought. In furtherance of this aim, the fuzzy function related to the … have been utilized. In this study, the annual data of wheat and dates from 1994 to 2012 have been utilized (sometimes 2013 … in 1999, 2007 and 2009 and the probability of drought for wheat and dates was 64.29 and 57.14 percent respectively in …

This study presents the results from a field survey of the wheat growers in the rice-wheat zone of Punjab. The late … maturing basmati rice varieties and the post paddy-harvest conventional tillage practices to prepare seedbed for wheat sowing … often result in delayed planting of the crop. The late sowing is a major factor responsible for low wheat yields obtained by …

the production and trade of rice the most important food crop in India and the world. … effective competition policy regime in India, has constrained the farm sector gains from trade reforms, and farmer’s capacity to …

This paper studies the integration of rice markets in the mid-west and far-west districts of Nepal. The data were drawn … mainly from the World Food Programme (WFP) database on Nepal. Results indicate that the rice markets of the hinterland are … trade policies with the World Trade Organization, the findings suggest that Nepal would maintain its partnership with India …

of Philippine rice farming. We empirically estimate a model of farmer behavior and then simulate the consequences of … a clear trade-off between the two policy goals of enhancing biodiversity and poverty reduction. Even the totally …. In addition, there is also a clear trade-off between the efficiency of targeted conservation payment and the information …

rice in Malaysia. The findings provide mixed signals which are different from other rice production countries. Hence …

Vietnam and the productivity effect on plot level and whole farm rice growing . We show that land titles are indeed important …

This paper describes how the social capital of rice farmers of the Mekong delta of Vietnam - manifested in the … tradition of collective farming practice, changed from the 1940s to 1990s. The reason this collective rice farming had existed … agrarian reforms which aimed to improve rural livelihood. Land reform resulted in individual rice farming, making mobilization …