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Towards sustainable, productive and profitable agriculture: Case of rice and sugarcane
Gulati, Ashok; Mohan, Gayathri - 2018
Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the country. Yet, more than half of the gross cropped area is still dependent on rains. Extremely skewed allocation of scarce irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the...
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Towards sustainable, productive and profitable agriculture : case of rice and sugarcane
Gulati, Ashok; Mohan, Gayathri - 2018
Indian agriculture is estimated to be consuming about 78 percent of total fresh water resources available in the country. Yet, more than half of the gross cropped area is still dependent on rains. Extremely skewed allocation of scarce irrigation water amongst crops and inefficient use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844300
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Does energy diversification cause an economic slowdown? : evidence from a newly constructed energy diversification index
Gozgor, Giray; Paramati, Sudharshan Reddy - 2021
system. Given this backdrop, this study introduces a new measure of energy diversification. It explores its impact on … economic growth with increasing long-run energy diversification. However, some countries (OECD and G20) experience negative … economic growth due to energy diversification in the short term. The results also disclosed that energy diversification does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603093
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Does Energy Diversification Cause an Economic Slowdown? Evidence from a Newly Constructed Energy Diversification Index
Gozgor, Giray; Paramati, Sudharshan Reddy - 2021
system. Given this backdrop, this study introduces a new measure of energy diversification. It explores its impact on … economic growth with increasing long-run energy diversification. However, some countries (OECD and G20) experience negative … economic growth due to energy diversification in the short term. The results also disclosed that energy diversification does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215675
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Climate Change and Crop Diversification : Evidence from Bangladesh
Matsuura, Masanori - 2021
Climate shocks in Bangladesh have become much more variable as a result of global climate change. Using national representative panel data in three waves in Bangladesh, I find that farmers tend to diversify their crops in response to climate shocks. Farmers are more likely to diversify their...
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Effects of Socio-Economic Changes in the Post-Soviet Estonia on the Landscapes Diversification and Tourism Development
Lemenkova, Polina - 2019
The focus on this paper is south-west part of Estonia located in the surroundings of Pärnu County, on the coast of Baltic Sea. The end of the USSR epoch caused great economical and socio-political reformation of Estonia. Like other post-soviet countries, this caused considerable changes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014109005
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The Research Networks – A Necessity for Rural Area Development
Radulescu, Carmen; Constantin, Florentina; Bontoi, Teodora - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 5 (2008) 1-2, pp. 76-83
It should be emphasized that the network concept has become widely used in the socio-economic studies of the economic life. Following the debates around research development, the networks may also have particular utility in making understandable the different forms of rural development. This...
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General Considerations on Villages Development and Rural Economy Diversification in Romania
Mateoc Sirb, Nicoleta; Otiman, Paun Ion - In: Agricultural Economics and Rural Development 8 (2011) 1, pp. 3-12
smaller scale, so we consider that more attention needs to be paid on village development and rural economy diversification in …
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Irrigation, Productivity and Poverty Linkages in Irrigation Systems in Java, Indonesia
Hussain, Intizar; Wijerathna, Deeptha; Arif, Sigit; … - In: Water Resources Management 20 (2006) 3, pp. 313-336
This paper analyzes irrigation-poverty linkages, and determines how and to what extent irrigation contributes to poverty alleviation, and whether there are any spatial patterns in poverty in irrigation systems. It also identifies conditions under which irrigation has greater anti-poverty...
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Analyzing Spatio-temporal Pattern of Crop Diversification in Jalandhar District of Punjab, India
Sajjad, Haroon; Prasad, Sandip - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 04 (2014) 03
This paper analyzed dynamics of crop diversification in one of the agriculturally prosperous districts of Indian Punjab … using Gibbs Martin Index. Spatio-temporal analysis of crop diversification in the district shows decline in crop … diversification in most of the blocks (administrative sub divisions). The cropping pattern in most of the blocks of the district has …
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