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Potential Biomass Yields in the South Central US
Basnet, Arjun; Depona, Theo; Hedges, Wesley; Dicks, … - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011
This paper describes research to create a national database of switchgrass supply as part of the biomass program … launched by the Department of Energy. The paper provides an estimate of county level switchgrass yield data for the state of … approach of ratio calculation and estimation is used to predict the switchgrass yield of one soil type by comparing it with the …
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Analysis of Factors Affecting Farmers’ Willingness to Adopt Switchgrass Production
Qualls, D. Joshua; Jensen, Kimberly L.; English, Burton C. - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2011
studies done on factors that determine farmers’ willingness to produce switchgrass, these have been very regional in nature …. This study will provide information regarding potential switchgrass adoption by agricultural producers in twelve … southeastern states. The objectives of this research are 1) to determine the likelihood of farmers growing switchgrass as a biomass …
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Sustainable Biofuels, Marginal Agricultural Lands, and Farm Supply Response: Micro-Evidence for Southwest Wisconsin
Mooney, Daniel F.; Barham, Bradford L.; Lian, Chang - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
’s near-term supply response to corn stover and switchgrass crop technologies. The ex ante supply model identifies …
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Modeling Agricultural Innovation in a Rapidly Developing Country: The Case of Chinese Pesticide Industry
Shi, Guanming; Pray, Carl - 2011
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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Has Imported Rice Crowded-out Domestic Rice Production in Ghana? What has Been the Role of Policy?
Asuming-Brempong, Samuel; Osei-Asare, Yaw Bonsu - 2008
Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the...
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2009
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Modelling Economic Returns to Plant Variety Protection in the UK
Srinivasan, Chittur S. - In: Bio-based and Applied Economics Journal (2012) 2
This paper attempts an empirical assessment of the incentive effects of plant variety protection regimes in the generation of crop variety innovations. A duration model of plant variety protection certificates is used to infer the private appropriability of returns from agricultural crop variety...
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Rural Poverty and Employment Effects of Bt Cotton in India
Subramanian, Arjunan; Qaim, Matin - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
The impact of genetically modified (GM) crops on the poor in developing countries is still the subject of controversy. While previous studies have examined direct productivity effects of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton and other GM crops, little is known about wider socioeconomic outcomes. We...
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Can Bt Technology Reduce Poverty Among African Cotton Growers? An Ex Ante Analysis of the Private and Social Profitability of Bt Cotton Seed in Mozambique.
Pitoro, Raul; Walker, Thomas S.; Tschirley, David L.; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
This paper presents an ex ante analysis of the private and social profitability of the introduction of Bt cotton for a major cotton producing area of northern Mozambique. Cotton is especially relevant to rural poverty reduction because smallholders often have few alternative cash earning...
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Investigation of the factors influencing adoption of GM crops at country level
Hall, Clare; Toma, Luiza; Moran, Dominic - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009
With the possible exception of nuclear technology, few scientific breakthroughs have generated the level of emotive debate that has surrounded the roll-out of agricultural biotechnology. Initial discussion about the environmental impacts of agricultural genetic modification, are now frequently...
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