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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Agricultural Technology"”.
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Essays on Development and Agricultural Technology Choice
This dissertation examines barriers to agricultural technology adoption and their implications for economic development in low- and middle-income countries. It provides valuable insights for international development policy and agricultural economics by exploring constraints to technological …
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Essays on the Economics of Food and Agricultural Technology
Technological adoption in food and agricultural systems has long been recognized as a major driver of productivity growth, structural transformation, and welfare improvement. This dissertation examines technology adoption and its welfare implications across nutrition and agricultural production. …
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Agricultural Technology Adoption and Adaptation under Climate Change: Microevidence from Niger
… will require an estimated 50 percent increase in agricultural production. Farmers in in the Sahel are exposed to a highly variable weather over time, and to their limited adaptive capacity, therefore often use livestock as income generator, export earnings, and as insurance against weather risk. …
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Three Essays on Adoption and Impact of Agricultural Technology in Bangladesh
New agricultural technologies can improve productivity to meet the increased demand for food that places pressure on agricultural production systems in developing countries. Because technological innovation is one of major factors shaping agriculture in both developing and developed countries, it …
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Agricultural Technology Transfer Between the United States and China: An Empirical Study
… two U.S. companies involved with successful agricultural technology to China were studied in depth. Also 14 of the U.S. companies that were partners with some of the 134 Chinese companies were interviewed. These results further support the model usefulness and the reasonableness of the survey …
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A Critical Systems Case Study in Agricultural Technology Development at the Land-Grant University
Agricultural technology development has historically exacerbated social inequities. As agriculture progresses into the latest technological revolution – Ag 4.0 – it is unclear how institutions such as land-grant universities are considering the social implications of their agricultural technology …
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The Impact of New Agricultural Technology on Farm Income Distribution in The Aligarh District of Uttar Pradesh, India
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An Evaluation of Past Performance of the Two-Year Agricultural Technology Program at Virginia Tech as Perceived by Program Graduates
… of Virginia Tech's two-year post-secondary Agricultural Technology Program. The literature review also provides a historical review of information regarding Virginia Tech's Agricultural Technology program, brief histories of other post-secondary land-grant two-year agricultural programs, …
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Effectiveness of an agricultural technology research and development project for increasing sustainability of cropping systems in upland areas of Yunnan Province, China
… degradation have changed the priorities of agricultural development projects in developing and emerging countries towards both increasing production or productivity and improving sustainability. The long-term success of these development projects, especially in terms of improving …
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Socio-Economic Determinants of Modern Agricultural Technology Adoption in Multiple Food Crops and Its Impact on Productivity and Food Availability at the Farm-Level: A Case Study from South-Eastern Nigeria
… factors influencing the adoption of modern agricultural technology in multiple food crops and the corresponding impacts on productivity and food availability at the farm-level in South-eastern Nigeria. In this study, three major food crops (i.e., rice, yam and cassava) and two elements of …
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Cognitive Effect Indicators: The Impact of Student and Teacher Styles on Course Grades
… Polytechnic Institute and State University Agricultural Technology program, identified relationships between problem solving and learning styles, and used problem solving and learning styles to explain students' end of course grades. Ninety-three students and six faculty members elected to …
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Designing user-centered IoT solutions for small-scale and mid-scale farmers
… supply. Studies have shown that using precision agricultural technology to control irrigation can reduce water consumption by as much as 20% and increase crop yield by up to 30% in developing countries. Such technologies, however, are inaccessible to millions of small-scale farmers who need them …
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Impact of subsidized credit on agricultural performance and food security : comparison between commercial and smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe
Agricultural credit has been seen as an important vehicle in agricultural development as it fosters adoption of advanced and more modern technology (Schultz, 1964). The problem which continues to haunt the smallholder farmers in developing countries has been identified to be the slow pace of …
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Mechanical harvesting of leafy greens on small farms
… but there is a disparity between available agricultural technology and the technology used in the farm equipment that is affordable for operators of small farms. The harvesting practices for salad greens from small farms is just one example of this disconnect. This thesis is a historical and …
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Economic analysis of peasant family farms: Agricultural intensification, cost-accounting, and sharecropping in Andean peasant communities
… is motivated by the conditions under which an agricultural surplus can be produced and sustained in nations (LDC's) that are characterized, grosso modo, by a static agricultural technology and rapid growth in demand for agricultural products. Even though peasant family farms comprise as much as …
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Conceptualizing technological change: technology transfer in the green revolution
Technological change, and technology transfer as an aspect of this process, is examined by providing a comparative assessment of models of this phenomenon from economics, history, sociology, and neo-Schumpeterian-evolutionary studies. The Green Revolution, which is used as the empirical basis for …
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Technological Change and Agricultural Development
… impact of intellectual property enforcement on technology development and productivity. Patent protection was introduced for plant biotechnology in the United States in 1985, and it affected crops differentially depending on their reproductive structures. Exploiting this unique feature of plant …
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The appropriated carrying capacity of tomato production : comparing the ecological footprints of hydroponic greenhouse and mechanized field operations
Agribusiness advocates claim that modern agro-technology has led to higher per hectare yields. In particular, hydroponic greenhouse agriculture is advanced as a new and particularly productive approach to high output farming. This may contribute to the belief that agricultural land can be urbanized …
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Development of an Imaging Tool for Commercial Mushroom Yield and Quality Estimation
… consumption. Improvements in mycology and agricultural technology have allowed farmers to increase their mushroom production. Farmers have been able to create microclimates with specific growing conditions that encourage mushroom growth for large-scale harvesting. Although technological …
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Regenerative Coordination: Keeping a Live Algorithmic Service Growing by Perpetuating Disruptions
… updates. My 15-month field study of an agricultural technology company explores how its members, along with its algorithms, were able to sustain a live imagery-analytics service, despite frequent, unexpected, and disruptive updates. Existing literature shows that sense-making and …
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