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on the Indonesian economy of changes in rice yields given different assumptions about the operations of Bulog (National … in Indonesia. The paper incorporates a specification of the rice market and models the government price-support, stocking …, and trade policies for rice using a mixed complementarity approach. This approach allows the specification of inequalities …
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Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic … rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the share of local rice production in the total quantities of rice …
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Abolishing a nearly 50-year-old policy for rice price support, Korea adopted a new direct payment program in 2005 … nets and the WTO disciplines on domestic support. The program aims to deal with over-supply of rice while guarding against … performed to test the degree of a linkage between rice support and production. The analysis suggests that rice support have only …
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yields, and economic risk of both NT and CT in five rice-based cropping systems (continuous rice, rice-soybean, rice …-corn, rice-wheat, and rice-wheat-soybean-wheat). Yields, crop prices, and key input prices are simulated to create net return … rice producers in Arkansas practice NT. The low adoption rate is most likely due to difficulties in management but also …
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Rice is a major cash crop in eastern Arkansas, but most rice acres are intensively cultivated and grown on rented land … efficiency of no-till management and carbon credits in Arkansas rice production from the prospective if the landlord using … enhance preference for no-till in rice production by risk-averse landlords. …
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In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...
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This study describes the development of bio economic models examining the economic and water quality impact of various proposed policy options in the Upper Waikato catchment. In the first phase nitrogen emissions are determined for representative farming systems using the Overseer nutrient...
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The paper examines empirical returns from holding thirty- and ninety-day call and put positions,and the forecasting performance of implied volatility in the live and feeder cattle optionsmarkets. In both markets, implied volatility is an upwardly biased and inefficient predictor ofrealized...
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The North Carolina (NC) wine industry has grown rapidly over the past decade and is expected to grow even more as the worldwide wine consumption and export of wines rises. In the United States, the wine market has grown by 13.7 percent since 2002 in volume and by more than 15 percent in dollars...
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