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Corporate Concentration and Technological Change in the Global Seed Industry

Bonny, Sylvie - 2017

In the past three decades, the seed sector has experienced, and is now again experiencing, corporate concentration trends. The fallout of this consolidation is the subject of numerous concerns. However, the seed sector is rather poorly understood. Thus, it is useful to understand it better and...

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COVID-19 Impact on Fruit and Vegetable Markets : One Year Later

Chenarides, Lauren; Richards, Timothy J.; Rickard, … - 2021

patterns, and (iii) U.S.-Canada trade patterns for fruits and vegetables. We provide evidence that the fresh produce supply …

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Worsening Food Crisis in Nigeria : A Discourse on Bail-Out Options

Nwachukwu, Ifeanyi Ndubuto - 2015

Food crises triggered by high prices had been experienced in agricultural markets in the past. However, the current state of agricultural markets has raised a lot of concerns to policy makers, media, the public and all stakeholders. This is against the background of the fact that only a selected...

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Assessing Kosovo's horticultural potential : the market for fruit and vegetables on the Balkans

Fischer, Christian - 2004

Kosovo had been a net exporter - at least of some - fruit and vegetables in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia … net trade flows during 1996-2000 for more than 20 individual fruit and vegetables and seven aggregates, demand potentials … demand potentials for locally produced fruit and vegetables clearly exist, the paper concludes that the overall competitive …

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Basic Vegetables and Fruits : Forecast for Production and Prices in Russia in 2012/2013

Karlova, Natalia - 2013

In Russia where the major volumes of vegetables are traditionally produced by household farms, the fruit and vegetable … business started developing quite recently. 2009-2010 were favourable for farm producers: market prices for vegetables were … preliminary data for 2012 indicate the lowering of gross output of vegetables but they are still above the average figures for the …

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Environmental and social sustainability in the fresh fruit and vegetables supply chain : competitiveness' asset

Tecco, Nadia; Giuggioli, Nicole; Girgenti, Vincenzo; … - In: Sustainable supply chain management, (pp. 121-137). 2016

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The Status of Labor-Saving Mechanization in Fruits and Vegetables

Huffman, Wallace E. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2010

The objective of this paper is to examine the status of labor-saving mechanization in U.S. fruit and vegetable harvesting. Fruit and vegetable harvest mechanization has several potential advantages: reduced harvest costs, eliminate problems associated with finding good quality harvest labor,...

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Study of Cost Benefit Analysis of Managing Bt. Cotton Farming with Special Reference to Vidarbha

Timane, Rajesh - 2013

About forty lakh hectare of land is under cotton cultivation in Maharashtra. Once known as the prosperous cotton-belt; today the irony is that the state tops the list when it comes to suicides by farmers. Further, almost all of them are cotton farmers mostly from Vidarbha. At present, Vidarbha...

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Effect of Ozone Treatment on Inactivation of Escherichia coli and Listeria sp. on Spinach

Wani, Shreya; Maker, Jagpreet K.; Thompson, Joseph R.; … - In: Agriculture 5 (2015) 2, pp. 155-169

The efficacy of “gaseous” ozone in reducing numbers and re-growth of food-borne pathogens, (Escherichia coli and Listeria spp.), on leafy salads was investigated using spinach. A preliminary in vivo study showed 1-log reduction in six strains of E. coli and two species of Listeria spp. on...

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Evaluation of Single or Double Hurdle Sanitizer Applications in Simulated Field or Packing Shed Operations for Cantaloupes Contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes

Webb, Cathy C.; Erickson, Marilyn C.; Davey, Lindsey E.; … - In: Agriculture 5 (2015) 2, pp. 231-244

Listeria monocytogenes contamination of cantaloupes has become a serious concern as contaminated cantaloupes led to a deadly outbreak in the United States in 2011. To reduce cross-contamination between cantaloupes and to reduce resident populations on contaminated melons, application of...

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