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In recent decades, the off-site transport of sediment and nutrients from agricultural land into the neighbouring natural and built environment has become a more pressing environmental sustainability issue than the on-site threats of soil erosion in many of the world’s temperate regions. In the...
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belong to agriculture. However, financial support to agricultural production is insufficient and incommensurate to the role … and importance of agriculture in domestic economy in comparison with the practice in advanced economies and those in the … region. If high interest rates, along with current credit conditions, remain, agriculture will not be able to advance and …
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, financial institutions perceive agriculture as highly risky to be financed. In fact there are seven major risks immanent for … agriculture: production, market, legal, human, technical, financial and political risks. Anyway, young farmers should not be … farmers because of their courage, entrepreneurship and ability to understand modern agriculture and finance. …
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Nevertheless the share of agriculture sector in the GDP has declined in the recent past; agriculture is the backbone … and engine of the Indian economy. Agriculture continues play a vital role in the development of India. More than 60 per … cent of the people, especially rural Indians, still depends agriculture sector for their subsistence and most of the …
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We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
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leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …
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We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
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weather data from the weather station in Ashland, Kansas which has similarities to the wheat growing regions of China. While …
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This study seeks to establish the relationship between carbon emissions, agricultural output and industrial output in South Africa. It uses data from 1960 to 2017 based on an annual frequency, giving a total of 58 annual observations. The Autoregressive Distributed Lag technique is employed to...
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This article undertakes a comparative analysis to investigate the distinctive determinants of capital structure in agricultural businesses located in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western Europe (WE). Given the unique financing characteristics inherent to agricultural enterprises and the...
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