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Do transgenic crops cause agrobiodiversity erosion? We hypothesize that they increase productivity and reduce …
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This study examines the role of enset or false banana, an orphan crop with high resilience to extreme environmental conditions, high nutritional value, and long storability, in the livelihood of rural households in Ethiopia. With its specific characteristics, enset could reduce households'...
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I examine the effects of climate change adaptation on agricultural productivity using a unique dataset from a non …
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biofuel in a poor country as Ethiopia can significantly improve food productivity of rural households who produce raw material …
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of Indian agriculture. Plants nutrients supply from the chemical fertilizer is the key to increasing agriculture … production by improving the land productivity. However, the demand-supply gap of fertilizers in India has increased in recent …
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fertilizer, ultimately hurts productivity as farmers in the community-based recommendation arm experience a 6.6% yield reduction …We use a field experiment in Bangladesh to test if two types of variety-specific fertilizer recommendations …---government provided, community-level recommendations and plot-specific recommendations based on individual soil tests---affect fertilizer …
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fertilizer demand observed in Argentina inthe 1990-2019 period. Understanding the factors affecting fertilizer use is important … understanding of the economics of fertilizer use, as fertilizers can both contributeto sustainable production (via increased …, in particular, related togroundwater contamination and energy (in the form of fertilizer) used in the agricultural sector …
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presented in standard format with percentage of change on Year to Year. Plants nutrients supply from the chemical fertilizer is … the key to increasing agriculture production by improving the land productivity. However, the demand supply gap of …
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Demand for fertilizer in developing countries has expanded at a rapid rate over the past forty years. The relative … development of complementary Green Revolution technologies – high yielding, fertilizer responsive seed varieties and expansion of … irrigation or better water control within irrigated systems. At the same time, real fertilizer prices have declined over time …
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improve the situation under certain conditions. Several studies analyzed effects of contracts on smallholder productivity and … effects on input use, productivity, and scale of production. The results suggest that resource-providing contracts alleviate …
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