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technology and reaping benefits from it. From this analysis it will be concluded that to be be used as development tool …
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practices on their assessment of both risks and benefits. It is argued, therefore, that in order to scale-up adoption of ISFM … significant negative relationship was observed between farmers expectation of benefits associated with soil fertility management …, policy should focus on increasing farmers’ access to information on the benefits associated with the practices while …
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357 growers in 2007. It also estimates the pecuniary and non-pecuniary benefits enjoyed by growers from their RR program … also suggest that if growers were not using residual herbicides with the RR program, their benefits would be 28.4% lower …
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The paper proposes a model in which it is hypothesized that firm characteristics influence both costs and benefits of … costs and benefits on the one hand and perceived actual outcomes on the other, and is tested in a series of regression …. Finally, the study also finds considerable discrepancies between expected and actual costs and benefits. The managerial …
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Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 2012, describes trends in economic, structural, resource, and environmental indicators in the agriculture sector, focusing on changes since the release of Agricultural Resources and Environmental Indicators, 2006. These indicators are useful...
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potential benefits and risks of GE crops. The report finds that, although the pace of research and development (measured by the …
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Acceptance and Use of Technology” konzipierten empirischen Studie zeigte sich, dass die Verhaltensintention der Akteure …’ acceptance of computer- based information systems. An empirical study based on the “Unified Theory of acceptance and Use of …
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Modeling crop yield distributions has been an important topic in agricultural production and risk analysis, and nonparametric methods have gained attention for their flexibility in describing the shapes of yield density functions. In this article, we apply a nonparametric method to model joint...
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Critical factors affecting risk and profitability for cattle owners under contract grazing include cattle weight at purchase and time spent on pasture and feedlot. Buying lighter animals and placing them in pastures before sending them to feedlot is the most profitable as well as least risky...
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