assignment problem. The problem consists of assigning drivers to harvesters, which will then be assigned to harvest sugarcane in … harvest sugarcane leads to a range of daily wages. Each harvester has different operating years and engine size, which affects … its fuel consumption rate and capacity to harvest sugarcane, respectively. Assigning a worker to a harvester can improve …

A German-Brazilian research project investigates sugarcane as an energy plant in anaerobic digestion for biogas … production. The aim of the project is a continuous, efficient, and stable biogas process with sugarcane as the substrate. Tests … substrate sugarcane has been varied. Analyses of the digester content were conducted twice per week to monitor the process: The …

This study was undertaken to identify the factors affecting sugarcane production in Pakistan. Data were collected from … 387 sugarcane growers from Sindh, Punjab and NWFP province. Data were collected during the period 2007-08. The study … reveals that the costs of inputs of sugarcane i.e. urea, DAP, FYM, land preparation, seed and its application, weeding and …

whether cooperatives could not be used as tools for dismantling this dualism. …

of agricultural cooperatives and informal farmer groups. In two reported case studies, these organizations have been … agribusiness agents, who normally oppose farmers’ countervailing power, promote, support, and even initiate cooperatives and farmer …

literature to make the case for the tendency of social capital resources of agricultural cooperatives in the Western world to …-making calculus. Cooperatives are shown to present one of the channels through which this codification may be possible; namely, the … codification effect of cooperatives enables the incorporation of a multitude of mutual self-help activities into the economic …

number of cooperatives has not been able to provide a maximum contribution in improving welfare. The purpose of this research … is to: 1) analyze the influence of social capital and the empowerment of cooperatives on the welfare of community members … of cooperatives in Denpasar City, 2). analyzing social capital that moderates and strengthens the influence of …

, which lead to changes in the market environment and intensity of competition in the wine markets. Overall, wine cooperatives …. The decreasing number of wine cooperatives and their members leads to the assumption that wine cooperatives have … of this paper is to identify and develop competitive strategies for wine cooperatives in the German wine industry …

All over the globe, cooperatives are plagued by pervasive member heterogeneity problems that are induced by the radical … scholarship, the paper views cooperatives as operationally closed systems maintaining a precarious relationship to their outer … environment, which includes cooperative members. In view of their operational closure, cooperatives tend to overstrain the …