In Nepal, agriculture is commercializing day by day and levels of agro-chemical use are growing. This is beginning to raise concerns about the health and environmental impacts of farm chemicals such as pesticides.The brief looks at the effectiveness of pesticides in reducing crop losses amongst...

In field vegetable production pesticide a levels are very high although pest control technologies are known, which require much less pesticides than the commonly applied control technologies. A stochastic bio-economic simulation model is used to determine the net return derived from the...

Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV) wurden am Thünen-Institut für Betriebswirtschaft verschiedene Analysen durchgeführt, die als Grundlage für die Ausarbeitung einer BMELV-Zukunftsstrategie Gartenbau genutzt werden sollen. Die...

Pulse production in the United States has become geographically specific and concentrated, and the marketing channels for pulses have changed dramatically over the past 30 years. The most marked change has be~n the growth of large proprietary marketing firms which are vertically integrated as...