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This study is undertaken to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on farmers' income in a case where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal. CF is emerging as an important form of vertical coordination in the agrifood supply chain. The prospect for CF in...
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This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
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We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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The aim of the study is to explore cash flow categories (incoming, outgoing and net cash flow per ewe), generated by dairy sheep breeding farms in Bulgaria. The study was carried out with 3 conventional dairy sheep farms (511 ewes totally, all from the breed – Synthetic Population Bulgarian...
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We estimate the marginal returns to spending on Crop Variable Inputs (CVI) (such as fertilizers and crop protection), to explore whether observed spending maximises physical or economic returns to farmers. Data are taken from the Farm Business Survey for 2004-2013, where gross margins and input...
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The issue of profitability of the agricultural production is often discussed within the framework of the problems of … agricultural economics. The study showed a diversification in the profitability of the milk production depending on the cow herd … measure of the milk production’s economic efficiency was the profitability index (revenues-to-economic costs ratio), the …
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The paper presents the results of research related to raspberries production in the Republic of Serbia with a focus on the Zlatibor district and selected agricultural holding located in the area of the municipality of Arilje. The research was conducted in accordance with the real data from...
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. External shocks, e.g., caused by climate change, and economic policies affect the producers' endogenous choice between market …
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This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Viet Nam. We propose an …
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