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Postharvest handling practices for fruit crops

Rodino, Steliana - 2017

The fruit production is a competitive and dynamic sector with many uncertainties coming from fruit biology, diseases and pests that attack them, the climate change, the distribution market and the complexity of logistics activities. Post-harvest handling activities can considerably improve the...

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R&D and private investment: How to conserve indigenous fruit biodiversity of Southern Africa

Waibel, Hermann; Wesseler, Justus; Mithöfer, Dagmar - 2005

Indigenous fruits contribute widely to rural incomes in Southern Africa but their availability is declining. A domestication program aims to increase farm-household income and conserve biodiversity through farmer-led tree planting. Planting domesticated indigenous fruit trees is an uncertain,...

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What is driving the 'African Growth Miracle'?

Harttgen, Kenneth; McMillan, Margaret - 2015

of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This decline has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity … of the labor force, as it has moved from low productivity agriculture to higher productivity manufacturing and services …. These declines have been more rapid in countries where the initial share of the labor force engaged in agriculture is the …

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Public policy for the agro-food industry and economic performances: evidences from Piedmont, Italy

Pagliarino, Elena; Cariola, Monica; Pavone, Sara; … - 2014

The European Union has a common rural development policy, motivated by the fact that more than 90% of the entire European territory can be classified as rural and 56% of European citizens live in rural areas. Each Member State sets out a Rural Development Programme (RDP) focused on three main...

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The Effects of Conflict on the Structure of the Economy

Depetris Chauvin, Nicolas; Rohner, Dominic - 2009

The presence of conflict affects people's economic incentives. Some sectors of activity flourish, while others suffer. For understanding structural problems in developing countries and designing appropriate post-conflict reconstruction policies, it is essential to understand in what ways...

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Agricultural production zoning: Historical and current issues

Lup, Aurel - 2019

This paper brings back to the specialized research circuit, as well as to the political decision makers' attention the zoning work of agricultural production by counties, namely over the period 1980-1985-1990. The author considers it the most important research work carried out by the Institute...

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The study on the main economic activities in Romania

Manolache, Alesandra Marina - 2019

The present paper proposes the analysis of the sectors of the national economy from the point of view of production (Gross Domestic Product) but also from the point of view of consumption (average monthly labor costs). This paper is based on the analysis of the statistical data from a...

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The foundation of the modernization concept of the wine sector

Iatisin, Tatiana - 2024

Agriculture, today, faces a series of challenges, both from climatic conditions and vice versa. To overcome these … challenges and increase the efficiency of operations, maximize crop productivity and reduce the negative impact of agriculture on … the environment, modernization of agriculture is necessary. The modernization of agriculture will open the formation of an …

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The analysis of the main indicators evolution of social and economic development in the Arab republic of Syria, period 1960-2014

Al Mahammad, Jaghayef; Necula, Raluca; Necula, Diana - 2016

indicators that characterizes the evolution of agriculture in the period analyzed. The result of the research shows a country …

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An overview of Romanian agricultural indicators in the last years

Bularca, Elena; Toma, Elena - 2018

agriculture during 2005-2016. The main indicators monitored are the land fund development, area and crop production, livestock and … livestock production, number of agricultural holdings, economic accounts and prices in agriculture and agro …-environmental indicators. It was found that over time in Romanian agriculture were produced important changes both in terms of quantity and …

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