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Animal Breeding and Productivity Growth of Dairy Farms
Atsbeha, Daniel Muluwork; Kristofersson, Dadi; … - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2012
Breeding can result in more output per unit of inputs as well as improved quality of outputs. A genetic-based technical change component is introduced into the Malmquist index, and productivity growth due to genetic and nongenetic factors is estimated for Icelandic dairy farms with quality...
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Productivity Change in the Australian Sheep Industry Revisited
Villano, Renato A.; Fleming, Euan M.; Farrell, Terence C.; … - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006
Recent low estimates of total factor productivity change for wool producers in the Australian sheep industry indicate that they are struggling to improve their performance. This evidence is at odds with the views of many technical observers of industry performance, prompting us to re-estimate...
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Brazil's Rising Agricultural Productivity and World Competitiveness
Rada, Nicholas E.; Buccola, Steven T.; Fuglie, Keith O. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
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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Alternate Modes of Irrigation and Farmer Returns Under Conjunctive Water Management in Pakistan
Jehangir, Waqar Ahmed; Ashfaq, Muhammad; Christen, Evan - In: Australasian Agribusiness Review 11 (2003)
The paper describes a study of canal and supplemental ground water used by 544 farmers for wheat growing in the Rechna … irrigation and comparing them with conjunctive water use. For econometric analysis, a linear relationship between the wheat …
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Seasonality and spatial integration in agricultural (product) markets
Zanias, George P. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 20 (1999) 3
testing approach to the soft wheat market of five European Union member states produces mixed results as some of the markets …
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The rise and fall of public sector plant breeding in the United Kingdom: a causal chain model of basic and applied research and diffusion
Thirtle, C.; Bottomley, P.; Palladino, P.; … - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 19 (1998) 1-2
This paper examines the barley and wheat breeding programmes of the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI), which was the most … successful public plant breeding institute in the UK, until privatization in 1987. The PBI's shares in barley and wheat seed … sales are explained, showing that the success with barley was largely a matter of serendipity, whereas the wheat programme …
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Controlling Phalaris Minor in the Indian Rice-Wheat Belt
Vincent, David P.; Quirke, Derek - Australian Centre for International Agricultural … - 2002
The ACIAR-managed project CS1/1996/013, Herbicide-resistant weeds of wheat in India and Australia: integrated … adoption of zero tillage to control Phalaris minor infestation in the rice–wheat areas of north-western India. This leads to an … management, was designed to find a long-term method of control of Phalaris minor, a problem weed of the rice–wheat cropping …
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The Economic Returns to Public Agricultural Research in Uruguay
Bervejillo, José E.; Alston, Julian M.; Tumber, Kabir P. - Robert Mondavi Institute Center for Wine Economics, … - 2011
We use newly constructed data to model and measure agricultural productivity growth and the returns to public agricultural research conducted in Uruguay over the period 1961–2010. We pay attention specifically to the role of levy-based funding under INIA, which was established in 1990. Our...
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Innovative electricity scheme sparks rural development in India's Gujarat State.
International Water Management Institute (IWMI); …
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Increased efficiency of straw utilisation by cattle and buffalo
George, P.S. - Australian Centre for International Agricultural … - 1998
impact on improving livestock production in India. This report contains an economic assessment of three interrelated projects … supply of these products, through the milk producers cooperatives organised under the Operation Flood Programme in India …
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