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rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … imported rice and five key rice producing centres in Ghana. In addition, the various policies that affected rice during the …, suggesting that markets for imported rice in Ghana are segmented, and domestic policies have generally not favoured local rice …
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rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … imported rice and five key rice producing centres in Ghana. In addition, the various policies that affected rice during the …, suggesting that markets for imported rice in Ghana are segmented, and domestic policies have generally not favoured local rice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068384
placed communities selected to ensure an even coverage of Plan Ghana activities in the Sissala West District of Ghana. Data …
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and food security. Using data from a recent field survey of rural farm households in northern Ghana and endogenous …
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Why do men and women adopt agricultural technologies at different rates? Evidence from Ghana suggests that gender …
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Economic reform in China helped transform the structure and volume of agricultural production and resulted in significant changes in efficiency and productivity. This paper measures agricultural technical efficiency (TE) and total factor productivity (TFP) in China by allowing producers...
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Brazil now is the largest coffee, sugar, and fruit juice producer, second-largest soybean and beef producer, and third-largest corn and broiler producer. It has overtaken the U.S. in poultry exports, nearly matches the U.S. in soybean exports, and dominates global trade in frozen orange juice....
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A meta-analysis is perfonned to review empirical estimates of technical efficiency (TE) in developing country agriculture. The objective of the study is to contribute to a better understanding of the factors that influence estimates of mean TE. A data set of 51 observations of TE from 32 studies...
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The focus of this paper is the process of adjustment of farm performance to disequilibrium with new technology over time, which has been a subject of speculation till now. It shows that, left to learn from their own experience, farmers will be slow to realise the full technical potential of a...
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In spite of the socio-economic importance of yam, his production is still facing serious constraints as no availability … evaluation. Data used came from 202 yam producers randomly selected in villages pertain to Borgou and Collines’s regions. The … been respectively used to analyze on the one hand yam producers’ perceptions and on the other hand the rate and …
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