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Diversifikation und Wachstum landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen
Thiele, Holger D.; Weiss, Christoph R. - 2002
Trotz der vielfach betonten Bedeutung von Diversifikationsstrategien vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender Liberalisierung vieler Agrarmärkte existieren nur wenige empirische Arbeiten zum Zusammenhang zwischen Diversifikation und dem Erfolg landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmen. Der vorliegende Beitrag...
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Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies
Evenson, Robert E.; Huffman, Wallace B. - 1997
Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies by Wallace E. Huffman … U.S. agriculture. Farm size, farm specialization, and part-time farming are the structural dimension emphasized, and …
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Self-selection into credit markets: Evidence from agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
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Immigrant workers and farm performance: Evidence from matched employer-employee data
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Aastrup … - 2013
Many developed countries have recently experienced a significant inflow of immigrants in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the sector is still in a process of structural transformation resulting in fewer but bigger and presumably more efficient farms. In this paper, we exploit detailed...
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The adoption of mechanization, labour productivity and household income: Evidence from rice production in Thailand
Srisompun, Orawan; Athipanyakul, Thanaporn - 2019
The planning of mechanization requires the quantitative assessment of a mechanization index and the impact of this index on agricultural yield and economic factors. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the adoption of agricultural mechanization and scale production on labour...
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Family farm: Solution for sustainable development of rural area
Dumitru, Eduard Alexandru; Petre, Laurenţiu Ionuţ - 2021
At present, in Romania there is no clear definition of the concept of family farm, and at the level of the European Union, the definition of family farms differs significantly depending on the characteristics of each country. At the same time, there is no classification of these types of farms,...
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What Can We Learn from the Formal Agricultural Sector? Trends, Scale, and Governance of Agriculture and Fishery Establishments in the Philippines
Briones, Roehlano M. - 2022
The Philippines' Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA) identifies one of the modernization objectives as … "to encourage horizontal and vertical integration, consolidation, and expansion of agriculture and fisheries activities … the Philippines, where agriculture is dominated by small family farms. Consolidation will also entail formal recognition …
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Determinations of the area needed for the family farm to reach a viable economic size
Dumitru, Eduard Alexandru; Sterie, Cristina Maria - 2022
The high number of subsistence and semi-subsistence farms is due to their small economic size, mainly due to the low efficiency of the crops grown in relation to the small area they cultivate. Using the Simplex method, the areas that family farms would need to farm in order to ensure a normal...
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Are small farms really more productive than large farms?
Aragon, Fernando M.; Restuccia, Diego; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2021
This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result,...
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Brazil's Agricultural Total Factor Productivity Growth by Farm Size
Helfand, Steven M.; Magalhães, Marcelo M.; Rada, … - 2015
country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture …
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