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