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implications on agricultural productivity in India which, in turn, has a bearing on rural poverty. The present study attempts to … analyse the inter-linkages amongst agricultural research investment, agricultural productivity and poverty at the national … level. The results revealed that rural poverty was significantly and negatively influenced by the agricultural productivity …
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inequalities in access to land and the governance of the groups, and their gender-differentiated impacts on farmers' productivity …
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With declining Irish potato production trends in Kenya this paper identifies and analyses factors that influence the economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder farmers from Nyandarua North district. A dual...
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With declining Irish potato production trends in Kenya this paper identifies and analyses factors that influence the economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder farmers from Nyandarua North district. A dual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010913503
The total factor productivity index for u.s. wheat was 1.5% per year between 1974 and 1983. The conservation tillage … productivity index for u.s. wheat was about 1.1% per year during this time period, or about 75% of the T.F.P. North Dakota and …
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This paper examines the impact that publicly funded agricultural research has on productivity in crop production within … production is a significant determinant of total factor productivity (TFP) in the crop sector and, second, that its social rate …
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improved rice varieties and its indirect effect on productivity with focus of the rural radio in Burkina Faso. The econometrics … and increase rice farmer productivity. …
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it inhibits adoption of modern technologies that have the capacity to enhance productivity of smallholder farms. Hence …, farm productivity and agricultural transformation is stifled, leaving smallholder famers in grinding poverty. Improved … productivity in Kenya, using Propensity Score Matching technique. It finds that participation in ICT-based MIS project has a …
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productivity. This necessited this study on innovation adoption, farm productivity and poverty status of rural smallholder farm … households in South-Eastern Nigeria. This was premised on the fact that increasing agricultural productivity can increase food … and positive impact on farm productivity. Also, the study revealed improved livelihood or better welfare for innovation …
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This paper attempts to estimate overall inefficiency of the sample of vegetable farms in Uzbekistan. Using the duality between the directional input distance function (DIDF) and the cost function, the study reports allocative inefficiency scores in addition to technical inefficiency in the...
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