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Agricultural Commercialization and Diversification in Jammu and Kashmir : Causes and Impacts
Shah, Mohd Asif - 2021
The paper has examined trends and patterns in crop diversification in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir for the … period 2007-08 to 2013-14 using Simpson Index of Diversification (SID) and estimated the determinants of crop diversification … replacing the food crops, either via specialization or diversification for reaping the higher benefits from the horticulture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217270
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Can a Repeated Opt-Out Reminder remove hypothetical bias in discrete choice experiments? An application to consumer valuation of novel food products
Alemu, Mohammed H.; Olsen, Søren Bøye - 2017
Recent papers have suggested that use of a so-called Repeated Opt-Out Reminder (ROOR) might mitigate hypothetical bias in stated Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE), but evidence so far has only been circumstantial. We provide the first comprehensive test of whether a ROOR can actually mitigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101054
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Intra-Industry Trade in Horizontally and Vertically Differentiated Agri-Food Products between Hungary and the EU
Ferto, Imre; Hubbard, Lionel James - 2002
Intra-industry trade in agri-food products between Hungary and the EU is shown to be low and dominated by vertically rather than horizontally differentiated products, suggesting higher economic adjustment costs. Following recent empirical studies, we then test econometrically for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014114585
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Diversification of income sources for cocoa farm households : a case study of the Central West of Côte d'Ivoire
Iritié, Bi Goli Jean Jacques; Djaléga, Fabrice Soukou - 2015
discuss the opportunity to combine horizontal diversification and vertical diversification (especially, cocoa processing) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346017
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Diversification and its Determinants : A Search for Alternative Income and Agricultural Development in Eastern India
Ahmad, Nasim - 2020
group and over 75% of their earnings are utilized to ensure their food security. Issues related to diversification have been … discussed by researchers for a long period and they have been trying to relate diversification to the developmental prospects … attempt has been made to measure diversification using Herfindahl- Hirschman index, known as the most popular method, it was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844280
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Crop diversification and technical efficiency in Afghanistan : stochastic frontier analysis
Ahmadzai, Hayatullah - 2017
Using Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), this paper centered on analysing the impact of Crop Diversification (CD) on … investigated for potential endogeneity in crop diversification. Instrumental Variable (IV) method was employed to correct for … endogeneity in crop diversification. The results of the IV estimation reveal that failing to account for endogeneity in the basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638217
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Using Energy Resources to Diversify the Economy : Agricultural Price Distortions in Kazakhstan
Pomfret, Richard - 2014
The agricultural sector in Kazakhstan experienced declining output throughout the 1990s, partly because relative prices shifted from being distorted in favor of farmers to being distorted against them. After the end of the decade public policy shifted towards support for (or less discrimination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206137
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Doubling Farmers Income by 2022 : Trends, Challenges, Pathway and Strategies
R, Sendhil; SJ, Balaji; Ramasundaram, P.; Kumar, Anuj; … - 2020
conservation technologies, diversification / intensification / relay cropping, pest and disease management in vulnerable regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014092527
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Modelling Indian wheat and rice sector policies
Kozicka, Marta; Kalkuhl, Matthias; Saini, Shweta; … - 2015
This paper serves to disentangle the complex system of Indian food policies related to wheat and rice procurement, storage, distribution and trade. Using nationally aggregated time series data, these policies are econometrically analysed. Based on the estimation results, their market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011327316
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Can Crop Purchase Programs Reduce Poverty and Improve Welfare in Rural Communities? Evidence from the Food Reserve Agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Saweda; Mason, Nicole; … - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401632