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Conservation tillage and controlled traffic
Australian Centre for International Agricultural …; … - 1998
increased yields, decreased costs and conserved soil and water on small plots of crop land. Controlled traffic farming in … southern and central Queensland increased cropping intensity, conserved soil and water, and increased yields and returns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325981
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Crop Insurance and Agrochemical Use in the Manasi Watershed, Xinjiang, China
Zhong, Funing - Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia … - 2007
This study investigates the environmental impact of a government subsidy program for crop insurance in China. It looks … at how crop insurance scheme in Xinjiang province affects the way cotton farmers use fertilizers, pesticides and plastic … their over-use is not encouraged. The study finds that crop insurance helps protect farmers from the economic impact of crop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062298
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The definition of the irrigation water rights and it's enforcement efficiency in China
Hu, Jilian - In: Textsammlung zum deutsch-chinesischen Wissenschaftsdialog, (pp. 65-79). 2013
The law definition of the irrigation water rights including ownership, withdrawing right and deliverying right is well in China, but the enforcement of these rights is ill because of the right erosion, which reduces the allocation efficiency of the irrigation water. Farmer rights on the water is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408091
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Implications of alternate irrigation water charging policies for the poor farmers in developing Asia: a comparative analysis
Hussain, Intizar; Wijerathna, Deeptha - International Water Management Institute (IWMI) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010907367
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Schemes for allocation of benefits from contracted water-saving : the case of irrigated field projects in China
Zhu, Jiwei; Wang, Jiangrui; Fang, Wenxing; Yu, Shijia - In: Water Economics and Policy : WEP 09 (2023) 4, pp. 1-33
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014446357
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Does output market development affect irrigation water institutions? Insights from a case study in northern China
Zhang, Lei; Zhu, Xueqin; Heerink, Nico; Shi, Xiaoping - In: Agricultural Water Management 131 (2014) C, pp. 70-78
been established and the local government intervenes in the allocation of water to stimulate farmers to grow a cash crop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719211
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Public investment, agricultural research, and agro-chemicals use in grain production in China
Zhu, Jing; Li, Yousheng - In: Dragons with clay feet? : Transition, sustainable land …, (pp. 251-262). 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003503966
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Chemical fertilizer use efficiency and its determinants in China's farming sector : implications for environmental protection
Wu, Yanrui - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 3 (2011) 2, pp. 117-130
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Does off-farm employment contribute to agriculture-based environmental pollution? : new insights from a village-level analysis in Jiangxi Province, China
Shi, Xiaoping; Heerink, Nico; Qu, Futian - In: China economic review : an international journal 22 (2011) 4, pp. 524-533
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