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biogas production. The model implemented is based on a real option approach that includes investment irreversibility and …
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Innovation and new technology adoption represent two central elements for the business and industry development process in agriculture. One of the most relevant innovations in dairy farms is the robotisation of the milking process through the adoption of Automatic Milking Systems (AMS). The...
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DairyNZ funded a two-year study on dairy farm ownership and management structures (June 2005 to May 2007), followed by a study on dairy farm succession in 2007/08. Farm business structures affect wealth creation and distribution, and determine who the dairy industry participants are and will be,...
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The dairy sector in Uganda has been transformed into a more competitive and dynamic sector. Supply-side factors have enabled expansion in milk production. Between 2005 and 2009 –milk production (estimated at 1.5 billion litres in 2010) has been partly an outcome of a 20 percent increase in the...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the social influence that the recent growth of dairying has had in Southland. Over 60 semi-structured and informal interviews were undertaken with a wide cross-section of organisations and individuals. Quantitative data was used to complement the...
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study tries to assess the optimal investment trigger for a new comer into organic dairy sheep farming system and secondly …, to evaluate the investment profitability of an existing organic farmer in his attempt to improve his farm. Results … indicate that the framework of real options analysis is an appropriate form of analysis if the question of investment …
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access to credit increasesTFP up to 1.9% per 1000 EUR of additional credit. The use of variable inputs and capital investment … increases up to 2.3% and 29%, respectively, per 1000 EUR of additionalcredit. Due to credit-financed investment in labour …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse farm strategies and investment behaviour in a sample ofselected Italian farm … households using multi-criteria dynamicprogramming, including investment choice. A total of 24 farms were selected for modelling … investment, though the latter seems more relevant than the former. However,decoupling itself shows minor effects in the majority …
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investment increases up to 2.3% and 29%, respectively, per 1000 EUR of additional credit. Due to credit-financed investment in …
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