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Wages, Prices, and Agriculture : How Can Indian Agriculture Cope with Rising Wages?

Binswanger-Mkhize, Hans P - 2015

In this paper we study the impact of rising wages on Indian agriculture by measuring the responses to output prices and … wages of output, and of both variable and quasi fixed factors. Raising output prices to compensate for rising wages is an … unattractive policy, because the medium-term elasticity of crop output with respect to wages was larger than the elasticity of crop …

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INTEGRATION OF SEMI-SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURAL FARMS

Matoschi ( Cimpan) Oana; Georgeta, Paun; Paun (Ciobanu) … - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2011) 1, pp. 87-92

Intensive agriculture, industrial type, contributed to environmental degradation and pollution. Thus, on the one hand, makes intensive use of chemicals has led to neglect of duty to maintain the natural fertility of the soil organic matter through proper fattening. On the other hand, organizing...

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Long-Run Structural and Productivity Change in U.S. Agriculture: Effects of Prices and Policies

Evenson, R.E.; Huffman, W.B. - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 1997

This paper presents (1) a conceptual framework for structural change when farms may be multiproduct or specialized and …

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Relevance of management practices for support of Brazilian farming business growth and the regional development

Bliska, Antonio; de Mello Bliska, Flavia Maria; … - 2015

of the product on market. This study analyzes the relationship between the management level of Brazilian farms with land … production. To assess the management level in agricultural organizations ? farms ? we used the Method of Identification of …

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Estimating Ricardian models with panel data

Massetti, Emanuele; Mendelsohn, Robert - 2011

Many nonmarket valuation models, such as the Ricardian model, have been estimated using cross sectional methods with a single year of data. Although multiple years of data should increase the robustness of such methods, repeated cross sections suggest the results are not stable. We argue that...

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The effect of aspirations on agricultural innovations in rural Ethiopia

Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew; Gerber, Nicolas - 2016

This paper identifies the effect of aspirations on the adoption of agricultural innovations in the context of rural Ethiopia. While most studies on agricultural innovations have focused on identifying observable and resource-related deprivations or 'external' constraints, a related stream of...

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Agribusinesses, smallholder tenure security, and plot-level investments: Evidence from rural Tanzania

Sipangule, Kacana - 2017

The last decade has witnessed an increase in the interest in agricultural land in developing countries. While a great deal of attention has been paid to understanding the impacts of this increased interest in agricultural land, very little is known about how local smallholder communities are...

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O mercado de trabalho na fronteira do agronegócio: Quanto a dinâmica no Matopiba difere das regiões mais tradicionais?

Serigati, Felippe; Rodrigues, Raquel Magossi; Possamai, … - 2017

The present study has the main objective to analyze the labor market dynamics in the Matopiba region and to compare it with the evolution of the Brazilian agribusiness labor market as a whole. The paper is part of a broader research project that aims to make a diagnosis of the socioeconomics and...

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Benchmarking technical efficiency of rice farms in Ghana: An empirical application of alternative production frontier approaches

Coffie, Rebecca Owusu - In: The Central European Review of Economics and Management … 2 (2018) 3, pp. 125-154

Aim: In spite of investments in new technologies to improve upon rice production in Ghana, productivity levels are still low. It is therefore important to assess the efficiency of farmers and identify sources of inefficiency to develop policies to reduce inefficiencies. This paper aims to...

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Study on the evolution of the rapeseed market in Romania

Drăcea, Lăcrămioara Alina - 2021

Agriculture occupies an important place in the Romanian economy, helping to provide food to the population from internal sources and facilitating links with secondary sectors. In recent years, the grain sector has seen a trend of growth in areas cultivated with rapeseed among the farm, this...

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