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An Opportune Time to Strengthen Indian Agricultural Marketing System
Lingareddy, Tulsi - 2021
, as farmers are unable to get remunerative prices for their crop produce due to the inability of the programme to cover …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247117
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Do Agricultural Market Advisory Services Beat the Market? Evidence from the Corn and Soybean Markets Over 1995-1998
Irwin, Scott H.; Good, Darrel L.; Martines-Filho, João; … - 2001
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/10014140981
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Do Agricultural Market Advisory Services Beat the Market? Evidence from the Corn and Soybean Markets Over 1995-1997
Irwin, Scott H.; Jackson, Thomas E.; Good, Darrel L. - 2000
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
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Media coverage and food commodities : agricultural futures prices and volatility effects
Almánzar, Miguel; Torero, Máximo - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011763674
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Are Agriculture Markets Driven by Investors’ Allocation? Evidence from the Co-Movement of Commodity Prices
Luebbers, Johannes - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966794
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Short-term acreage forecasting and supply elasticities for staple food commodities in major producer countries
Haile, Mekbib Gebretsadik; Brockhaus, Jan; Kalkuhl, Matthias - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 4 (2016) 17, pp. 1-23
Forecasting food production is important to identify possible shortages in supply and, thus, food security risks. Such forecasts may improve input allocation decisions that affect agribusiness and the input supply industry. This paper explains methods and data used to forecast acreage of four...
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Power, Fairness and Constrained Choice in Agricultural Markets : A Synthesizing Framework
Hendrickson, Mary; James, Jr., Harvey S. - 2016
The (un)fairness of agricultural markets is frequently invoked, especially by farmers. But fairness is difficult to define and measure. In this paper we link fairness and power with the concept of constrained choice to develop a framework for assessing fairness in agricultural markets. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129509
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The Nature and Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China and Implications of WTO Accession
Huang, Jikun; Rozelle, Scott - 2002
discussing our data and way of collecting information for calculating the gap in prices between international and domestic … to it. The fourth section of the paper then analyzes the transmission of prices through the economy. The final section …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108827
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Impact of E-Nam (Electronic-National Agriculture Market) in Doubling Farmers Income
SINGH, NITISH KUMAR; V, Pnaduranga; ALAGAWADI, M - 2021
that farmers are getting remunerative prices through e-NAM mandi, and transparency has been increased, but technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309969
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The impact of infrastructure shocks on agricultural markets : evidence from the Zambezi river in Mozambique
Salazar-Espinoza, César; Jones, Sam - 2017
Prior to 2009, there was no direct road connection between the southern regions of Mozambique - where the capital city is located - and the more agriculturally-productive central and northern regions. In this paper, we leverage the opening of a major road bridge to identify the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776440