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Economic Competitiveness and the Sudanese Agricultural Commodities
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - 2011
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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The Potential of Farmer Producer Organizations in India
Tagat, Venkatesh - 2017
The Government of India recently announced $34 million for setting up a “Producers Development and Upliftment Corpus (PRODUCE)” under the National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD). This article studies the potential role of Farmer Producer Organisations (POs; and more...
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Agricultural Commercialization and Diversification in Jammu and Kashmir : Causes and Impacts
Shah, Mohd Asif - 2021
The paper has examined trends and patterns in crop diversification in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir for the period 2007-08 to 2013-14 using Simpson Index of Diversification (SID) and estimated the determinants of crop diversification by using multiple regression analysis. The cropping...
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State of Agricultural Production and Food Security in Russia in 2022
Shagaida, Natalia; Ternovskiy, Denis - 2023
In 2022, index of physical volume of agricultural output in agricultural organizations, peasant (private) farms and household farms grew by 10.2% as compared to the previous year. In monetary terms growth was 14.8% due to rising prices on agricultural products (+4.2%, i.e. much lower as compared...
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Do Income Support Programs Impact Producer Hedging Decisions? Evidence from a Cross-Country Comparative
Woolverton, Andrea - 2009
This paper provides a unique perspective to the question of why U.S. producers' hedging practices are not consistent with the price-risk management literature. We conduct a formal test of income support program impacts with unique producer survey data from South Africa and the United States,...
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Agricultural Credits and Agricultural Productivity : Cross-Country Evidence
Seven, Unal - 2020
We present cross-country evidence suggesting that agricultural credits have a positive impact on agricultural productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural productivity. We use two different agricultural production...
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Off-Farm Participation, Agricultural Production and Farmers’ Welfare in Tanzania and Uganda
Kinuthia, Bethuel - 2019
analyzed to investigate the impact of off-farm participation on agricultural production and farmers' welfare. Using strategies … random effects Tobit model, could tackle censoring bias. Our results reveal that off-farm participation had a negative impact … desirable outcomes from off-farm participation. In that effort, policies that minimize the trade-off between agricultural …
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Agricultural financing to guarantee food safety in an emerging nation : a case study of Nigeria
Omodero, Cordelia Onyinyechi; Ehikioya, Benjamin - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 23 (2022) 1, pp. 53-59
Investment in agriculture is very crucial in the present situation of Nigeria. The effort to overcome food insecurity can only be efficacious if steps in the right direction will be taken. At this juncture in the Nigerian economic history, the right step to take is to adequately finance...
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External Finance and Agricultural Productivity Growth
Khafagy, Amr; Vigani, Mauro - 2022
, size of farms, and farm types. In the 2004-2018 period, land, labour and capital complemented each other but had a …
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Public Expenditure and Agricultural Production in Meghalaya, India : An Application of Bounds Testing Approach to Co-Integration and Error Correction Model
De, U. K. - 2020
An attempt is made in this paper to examine the short and long run relationship between government expenditure on agriculture and its allied sector and agricultural output of Meghalaya. The study is based on a time series data of 30 years from 1984-85 to 2013-14. During this period, the state...
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