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, as farmers are unable to get remunerative prices for their crop produce due to the inability of the programme to cover …
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The purpose of this paper is to address two basic performance questions for market advisory services: 1) Do market advisory services, on average, outperform an appropriate market benchmark? and 2) Do market advisory services exhibit persistence in their performance from year-to-year? Data on...
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The purpose of this paper is to address two basic performance questions for market advisory services: 1) Do market advisory services, on average, outperform an appropriate market benchmark? and 2) Do market advisory services exhibit persistence in their performance from year-to-year? Data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145157
We examine how media coverage of fluctuations in the price of agricultural commodities affects these prices and their … from the literature. We use daily prices of futures contracts for soybeans, hard wheat, soft wheat, rice, and maize … that these effects are important in periods of both high and low prices. Across commodities, the price effects are …
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We examine the effect of financial investments on the futures market of seventeen agriculture commodities during 2006 … correlation between individual commodity prices. Our analysis indicates that in order to avoid financial interests affecting …
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The fund allocation in agricultural sector in India is heavily tilted toward input subsidies provision; however, researchers seem to favor investment expenditure instead. The present paper seeks to compare the usefulness of input subsidies as compared to investment with regard to agricultural...
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This paper assesses impacts of EU CAP implementation on Bulgarian farms of different type and specialization. First, a … framework for assessing the CAP effects on farms is presented. Next, an evaluation is made of the impacts of CAP on: economic …, social, and environmental sustainability of farms. Finally, factors for improvement of CAP impact on farms in the country are …
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Since independence in 1956, the structure of domestic production and export sectors, the level of capacities to absorb economic shocks, and the historically market-oriented nature of the economy, when taken collectively, they constitutes distinguishing characteristics of Sudan economy at...
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Bulgarian; evaluates the impacts of EU CAP on environmental sustainability of Bulgarian farms; specifies major environmental … environment, and identifies major eco-challenges, conflicts and risks. Forth, it evaluates the impacts of EU CAP implementation on …
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About forty lakh hectare of land is under cotton cultivation in Maharashtra. Once known as the prosperous cotton-belt; today the irony is that the state tops the list when it comes to suicides by farmers. Further, almost all of them are cotton farmers mostly from Vidarbha. At present, Vidarbha...
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