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Evaluation of drought management in irrigated areas
Iglesias, Eva; Garrido, Alberto; Gomez-Ramos, Almudena - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 29 (2003) 2
future water availability. The model is calibrated to 12 representative farms belonging to three irrigation communities of …This paper focuses on the economic consequences of droughts for the irrigation sector. We develop a dynamic …. Results indicate that the drought imposed significant costs on farmers, but show also that water managers partly exacerbated …
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Cost-effectiveness of alternative green payment policies for conservation technology adoption with heterogeneous land quality
Khanna, Madhu; Isik, Murat; Zilberman, David - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 2
compared using a simulation model for controlling drainage from irrigated cotton production in California, with drip irrigation …
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Wheat and Maize Price Policies in Hungary: Tradeoffs between Foreign Exchange and Government Revenue
Braverman, Avishay; Hammer, Jeffrey S.; Morduch, Jonathan J. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 01 (1987) 3
This paper reports on a methodology designed to examine the effects of selected agricultural policies in Hungary. The purpose of the paper is twofold. The first is to explain the methodology, dubbed multi-market analysis in previous work, which is implemented on personal computers to support...
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Effect of Sugar Price Policy on U.S. Imports of Processed Sugar-containing Foods
Jabara, Cathy L. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 03 (1989) 2
The relationship between U.S. and world sugar prices, and U.S. import demand for four categories of sugar-containing products is examined. Results from econometric estimation indicate that U.S. intervention in the sugar market has helped to increase U.S. imports of some sugarcontaining products,...
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Grain price stabilization in India: Evaluation of policy alternatives
Jha, Shikha; Srinivasan, P.V. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 21 (1999) 1
Stabilization of prices is an important element of food policy in India as in most other countries - both developing and developed. However, since the magnitude of grain stocks held for this purpose as well as the costs of physical storage have become prohibitively high, there is now a need for...
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Development of agriculture in Ethiopia since the 1975 land reform
Belete, Abenet; Dillon, John L.; Anderson, Frank M. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 06 (1991) 2
A stated objective of the Ethiopian Government since it came to power in 1975 has been to increase the production of crops for both domestic consumption and export. Consequently, a number of plans and programs have been proposed and implemented to bring about such development in Ethiopian...
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Productivity of Agricultural Labour and Land: An International Comparison
Sharma, Kailash C.; Rao, D. S. Prasada; Shepherd, W. F. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 04 (1990) 1
This paper examines partial agricultural land and labour productivity in 1975 and 1980, for different world regions. The results suggest that land and labour productivity are higher in developed countries relative to developing countries. However, agricultural labour productivity differences are...
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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
evolution for resource management, focusing on irrigation water, a traditional local common property resource. Two management … schemes for inigation water, a community management regime (tank irrigation) and an individualised management regime (well … irrigation), are compared in terms of rice production efficiency. Using farm household data collected by the authors in Tamil …
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Dynamic relationships between US and Thai rice prices
Taylor, Earl L.; Bessler, David A.; Waller, Mark L.; … - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 14 (1996) 2
Relationships between the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) estimated World Market Price, the Thai milled rice price, US transportation-adjusted cash rough rice price, and the Chicago Rice and Cotton Exchange rough rice futures price are examined for the 1987-1991 marketing years....
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The law of one price: a test based on prices for selected inputs in New Zealand agriculture
Delpachitra, S. B.; Hill, R. L. St - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 10 (1994) 3
The law of one price (LOOP) is an essential foundation of both the pure theory of trade and monetary theory. Strictly speaking, the law relates to prices of individual commodities. However, empirical tests of LOOP have often relied on aggregated data. In this paper, a model is derived and...
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