This proposed project is designed to assist farm.­ fresh market growers, farm retail direct-market operators, and agri-tourism businesses in learning to connect with each other and the consumer by fully utilizing the options available to them for e­-commerce on the Internet. In doing so we...

Pesticides efficiency decreases with their global application by farmers. Within a strategic dynamic framework, this results in a classic intertemporal production externality. We analyze tax and subsidy schemes that can be used in order to internalize this externality. We show that they are able...

Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture implies changes in farm management practices. Knowledge on farmers’ current adoption of management practices aimed at reducing emissions, and their preferences regarding these, is important to inform the development of robust climate change mitigation...

A program of estimates covering eight classes of nursery products and four selected out flowers grown in 5 States was undertaken in late 1956 by the Fruit and Vegetable Statistics Branch of the Agricultural Estimates Division, AMS. The initial survey was an almost complete enumeration with...

The extent to which the tenure status of farm operators affects agricultural e ffciency has interested economists for decades. Different theories dealing with the subject have evolved; but only a few empirical studies have been made to test their validity. This deficiency in agricultural economics...