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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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This study examines technical efficiency and productivity growth of Greek livestock farms participating in the 1994 European Union Farm Credit Program (1994-EU-FCP), i.e. regulation 2328/91. The farm-level economic data set used in this paper consists of two different groups of livestock farms,...
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Food security is a global concern. Iranian farmers have the obligation to provide food but they don't have the right to food. International restrictions combined with incorrect national schematization put them in a situation that they can't afford to buy their own products just to endure to the...
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Heady (1952) suggests that farm managers seek the allocation of crops that best minimizes the probability of realizing a disastrous harvest. I use this intuitive idea to construct a normative model of land allocation that is more robust to distributional assumptions and utility specifications...
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Panel data from the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture for Tanzania and Uganda were analyzed to investigate the impact of off-farm participation on agricultural production and farmers' welfare. Using strategies ranging from simple least squares to a dynamic...
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While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...
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The problem of the concentration of agricultural land has now acquired a global character. Recently the problem of concentration of agricultural land has been identified as one of the major threats to European agriculture. For example, in Report Against Land Concentration recently adopted by the...
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The aging of farmers in the US today coincides with fluctuating incomes resulting from recent market price volatility and policy changes. We evaluate how farmers' retirement or exit, as well as their disinvestment from farming in preparation for retirement, are affected by economic and...
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Brands are rapidly emerging in food retail in Asia. However, it is not well understood what impact they have in these food markets. In a detailed case study of makhana in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, we see the fast emergence - a doubling over five years leading to a share of 50%...
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