export shares of processed coffee and cotton textiles. We modify the standard GTAP (global trade analysis project) model to … and cotton are agricultural products that face the problem of TE in developing countries, where we observe low global … coffee product export shares but high global cotton textile export shares, posing a question on TE's impact on …

been introduced. The model includes assumptions about the productivity gains of GM crops, possible consumer responses and …

solutions to the challenges confronting China in engaging smallholders in higher value, specialty, agricultural product markets … (operational efficiency). The marketing experiment/trial was conducted in three fine-wool-growing counties in Western China in 2008 …/value – Engaging smallholders in specialty agricultural product markets poses significant challenges for China. The market efficiency …

large number of low-efficiency, small-scale farms, and productivity inequality between small and large farms keeps … between backyard, small-scale, medium-scale and large-scale dairy farms in China over the period between 2004 and 2008 … in productivity, and the productivity difference is explained by technology and technical efficiency. Practical …

. This paper identified factors motivating adoption and abandonment of precision soils sampling in cotton. Younger producers … who farmed more cotton area, owned more of their cropland, planted more non-cotton area, or used a computer were more … likely to adopt precision soil sampling. Those with more cotton area or who owned livestock were more likely to abandon …

This article describes an expert system, COT-XPERT, developed for controlling pests and diseases affecting cotton crop … and dispersal pattern, etc. The second part is an expert system for the management of cotton pests which diagnoses the …

regional agriculture, (iii) possibilities for advancement and (iv) contribution to the future growth. Hence, productivity … creating presumptions for its accrued productivity. …