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Adding value to spatially managed inputs by understanding site-specific yield response

Bullock, David S.; Lowenberg-DeBoer, Jess; Swinton, Scott M. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 3

Many mechanized crop producers and agribusinesses are fascinated with precision agriculture technology, but adoption … has lagged behind the expectations. Among the reasons for slow adoption of precision agriculture technology is that … variable rate input application recommendations. Precision agriculture is spatial information technology applied to agriculture …

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Food demand in rural China: evidence from rural household survey

Fan, Shenggen; Cramer, Gail; Wailes, Eric - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 11 (1994) 1

The recent rural reforms in China have had great effects on agricultural production and productivity as well as rural household consumption. While much has been written on production and productivity effects of these reforms, very few Chinese studies have attempted to analyze the changes in...

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Impact of eliminating government interventions on China's rice sector

Fan, Shenggen; Wailes, Eric; Cramer, Gail - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 11 (1994) 1

China's economy has undergone fundamental changes since 1978. Agriculture, industry and services are being transformed …

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Induced technical change in centrally planned economies

Fan, Shenggen; Ruttan, Vernon W. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 06 (1992) 4

It has generally been assumed that the inferences of the induced technical change model with respect to the direction of technical change could not be expected to hold for the centrally planned economies. In this paper we test three hypotheses generated from the induced technical change...

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Capturing household-level spatial influence in agricultural management using random effects regression

Swinton, Scott M. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 3

Data on agricultural and natural resource management typically have spatial patterns related to the landscapes from which they came. Consequently, econometric models designed to explain the determinants of humans' natural resource management practices or their outcomes often have spatial...

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Investment in soil conservation in northern Ethiopia: the role of land tenure security and public programs

Gebremedhin, Berhanu; Swinton, Scott M. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 29 (2003) 1

A double hurdle statistical analysis of 250 farms in the Tigray region of Ethiopia reveals different causal factors for soil conservation adoption versus intensity of use. Farmers' reasons for adopting soil conservation measures vary sharply between stone terraces and soil bunds. Long-term...

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