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The paper describes a study of canal and supplemental ground water used by 544 farmers for wheat growing in the Rechna … irrigation and comparing them with conjunctive water use. For econometric analysis, a linear relationship between the wheat …
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The ACIAR-managed project CS1/1996/013, Herbicide-resistant weeds of wheat in India and Australia: integrated … management, was designed to find a long-term method of control of Phalaris minor, a problem weed of the rice–wheat cropping … needed to be combined with changes in wheat-growing techniques that would provide cost savings to help farmers pay for them …
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The goal of the research is to estimate the supply and demand of grain storage for the state of Mato Grosso. This is the first research to employ GPS coordinates to map storage in Mato Grosso. The state has 2,143 registered warehouses. The analysis uses commercial warehouses with capacity...
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International trade in wheat accounts for approximately one third of world grain trade and is expected to double by … 2050.The KRU (Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine) countries account for approximately a quarter of world wheat exports and are … collectively considered one of the key wheat exporting regions. The Ukraine became a member of the WTO only in 2008. Russia became …
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Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and developing countries. We investigate how policy and market factors influence firms’ (or other potential innovators’) decisions on innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual...
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This report sets out some broad ideas about how poverty evaluation could be conducted for ACIAR research projects. As with good benefit–cost analysis, there are good practices that need to be observed when undertaking poverty analysis. While poverty is a broad concept, and can be addressed...
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The study explores a long memory conditional volatility model on international grain markets, demonstrating importance of modeling both temporal effects of volatility and long memory process. This study adopts six different volatility models, nested in an ARMA(p,q)- FIGARCH(P,D,Q), to capture...
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countries and primarily targeted rice and wheat. The 2007-08 policy responses across countries included liberalized import …
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