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Averting a food crisis: private imports and public targeted distribution in Bangladesh after the 1998 flood
Ninno, Carlo del; Dorosh, Paul A. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 25 (2001) 2-3
The 1998 flood in Bangladesh caused a shortfall of 2.2 million tonnes (mill.t) in the rice production and threatened …
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Acreage response in Pakistan: a co-integration approach
Mushtaq, Khalid; Dawson, P.J. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 2
This paper seeks to quantify the acreage responses of wheat, cotton, sugarcane and rice in Pakistan using co …-integration techniques and impulse response analysis. Results indicate that acreages of wheat and basmati rice do not respond significantly … to shocks in own-price while cotton, sugarcane and high yielding variety (HYV) rice do, and that long-run equilibrium is …
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Tank irrigation management as a local common property: the case of Tamil Nadu, India
Sakurai, T.; Palanisami, K. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 25 (2001) 2-3
irrigation), are compared in terms of rice production efficiency. Using farm household data collected by the authors in Tamil … Nadu, India, it is found that the profit of rice production using well water only is low due to the high labour input …
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Technology characteristics, farmers' perceptions and adoption decisions: A Tobit model application in Sierra Leone
Adesina, Akinwumi A.; Zinnah, Moses M. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 09 (1993) 4
mangrove swamp rice farmers in Sierra Leone. The issue investigated is the adoption of improved mangrove swamp rice varieties …
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Farmers' perceptions and adoption of new agricultural technology: evidence from analysis in Burkina Paso and Guinea, West Mrica
Adesina, Akinwumi A.; Baidu-Forson, Jojo - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 13 (1995) 1
sorghum and rice varietal technologies in Burkina Paso and Guinea, respectively, strongly supports this hypothesis. Our …
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Production and uses of subject-matter research in federal service: observations from research on Farmer Mac
Hiemstra, Stephen W. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 05 (1991) 3
Rapid institutional innovation in the 1980's has led to problems that exceed the scope of research normally assumed by individual researchers. During such periods of rapid change, subject-matter research may be particularly useful. This paper reviews research on the Federal Agricultural Mortgage...
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Modelling agricultural production of small-scale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa: A case study in western Kenya
Odulaja, Adedapo; Kiros, Fassil G. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 14 (1996) 2
Small-scale farmers are known to produce the greater proportion of food consumed in the Third World, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The various national and international agricultural research centres located in these parts of the world have developed agricultural packages which have been...
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The Calculation of returns to research In distorted markets: Comment
Voon, Jan P.; Edwards, Geoff W. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 05 (1991) 1
In a recent article, Oehmke reported that a high internal rate of return for investment in research when the interaction between research and price policy costs was disregarded could become very low or even negative when the effects of research on the costs of price policy were considered. In...
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Comment: Measuring research benefits in an imperfect market
Sexton, Richard J. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 13 (1996) 3
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Cost structure and technical change in rural banking
Obben, James - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 08 (1993) 3
Using the multi-product translog cost function, this paper examines the cost structure and technical change occurring within the novel Ghanaian rural banks. The results of the seemingly unrelated error components model indicate substantial unexploited economies of scale in individual products as...
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