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Showing 1 to 20 of 406 for “"Economics, Agricultural"”.
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Why do I want to work for you? An Analysis of Job Satisfaction, Laborer Retention, and Recruitment in the Cattle Feeding Industry
The Texas Cattle Feeders Association (TCFA) region is the most productive beef cattle region in the United States (TCFA, 2023). Productivity and efficiency are two areas that work hand in hand and employees drive both. To identify areas of growth for the beef cattle industry, assessing concerns of …
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Gender-Based Adoption of Agricultural, Health and Family Planning Technologies by Individuals Within Rural Households: The Malawi Case
Based on the findings, it is recommended that the agricultural delivery system design and implement timely and clientele-customized financial, information, educational and communication packages. The packages should focus on vulnerable socio-economic groups such as women from both male and female …
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Analysis of the Indian Vegetable Seed Industry
The Indian seed sector has a tremendous potential to become an outsourcing base with respect to production, technology and services for the global companies. This is due to the large infrastructural research network, diversity of agro-climatic conditions, and relatively less expensive labor and …
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A Case Study of Farmers Joining Together to Create Change: Perceptions and Experiences of Agricultural Guild Leaders and Members
Implications of the findings are discussed for two major areas of concern. The first is an understanding of how some of the farmers' basic problems were addressed in creating a network that would provide them with information and greater leverage in securing new market opportunities and higher …
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"The Feasibility and Profitability of the ""Quick Germ"" Process for Ethanol Production From Corn"
"Each modification of the economic model for the ""Quick Germ"" process proved profitable and retrofitting a dry-grind ethanol plant with a germ recovery facility was justified. The ""Quick Germ"" process has the potential to add $65 to 110 million/yr in added revenue for the dry-grind ethanol …
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Gardens Are for Cash, Grain Is for Life: The Social Organization of Parallel Production Processes in a Rural Bamana Village (Mali)
… the organization of labor, land use strategies, agricultural techniques, and cropping systems within each production domain. I show that the community's five primary social, residential, and consumption units (domestic groups) also dominate in food production. In contrast, I document how …
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The Repeasantization of an Uzbek Kolkhoz: An Ethnographic Account of Postsocialism
By comparing modern historical vicissitudes, the ways in which socio-cultural life (including demographic features, holidays and life-cycle celebrations) has altered from a decade ago, and the decline of key food resources over the same period, the author provides readers with a number of …
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The Rice Economy of Thailand: Supply, Demand and Price
… of rice producing households through an agricultural household model, after recognizing the characteristics of rice households as both producers and consumers. The Cobb-Douglas production function is used for production decisions, while the linear expenditure system and the linear …
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The Political Economy of Argentine Development
To understand Peron's policies, it is necessary to understand the erosion of political institutions that occurred in the 1930s. The military coup of 1930 and the afterwards fraudulent elections throughout the decade undermined democratic institutions and opened the gates of opportunity for …
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Macro Performance, Fiscal Behavior, and Water Investments: Three Essays on the Effects of Foreign Aid in Bangladesh
… of embedding the macroeconomic linkages of agricultural into planning framework. First, a dynamic cost minimization model is utilized to compute the minimum amount of investments needed in various water projects such that an exogenously set agricultural growth target can be met. Next, the …
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Regional Variations in Polish Peasant Farm Efficiency: Composed Error, Spatial Econometric and Spatial Interaction Techniques
The objective of this analysis was to compare analytical methods as well as to highlight the most important issues for the continued rural impoverishment in Polish peasant farming. This situation is particularly relevant, given the policy implications for Poland's impending European Union …
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"Highland Farmers and the ""Modernizing"" State in Ethiopia: Conjunctures and Disjunctures"
"This study is a detailed and two-pronged look of the cultural and political relations between indigenous social institutions and practices of highland farmers in Warra Himanu, South Wallo Administrative Zone, and successive regime forms of the ""modernizing"" state in Ethiopia. With regard to …
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Growing Cotton: Household Negotiations in Export-Oriented Agriculture in Africa, Burkina Faso
Conventional knowledge assumes that production of cash/export crops jeopardizes household food crop production in developing economies, and above all, mars women's potential for economic autonomy. In Southwest Burkina Faso, observations in cotton-producing households appear to challenge such …
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Determinants of Foreign Production by United States Food Processing Firms: A Firm-Level Analysis
The findings, which are consistent with a transaction cost explanation, indicate that the intangible assets associated with foreign production vary with specific product and location factors. Among the findings are that the incidence of foreign production was much higher for SIC 203 products …
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Application of Austrian Economic Theory and Complexity Theory to the Institutional Evolution of Agricultural Markets
However, in spite of the theoretical and methodological contributions of this research, there are a number of limitations. One such limitation stems from the computational and memory constraints imposed by the Mathematica programming software. In addition, model validation and verification …
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Estimating Corn and Soybean Farm -Yield Distributions in Illinois
Considerable disagreement exists about the most appropriate characterization of farm-level yield distributions. This dissertation investigates corn- and soybean-yield distributions at the farm level, expanding the existing literature by providing results based on unique farm-level yield data and by …
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Towards a Behavioral Theory of Farmer Decision -Making: The Value of Site -Specific Information in Agricultural Production
The results of the numerical optimization model indicates that for uniform applications of N fertilizer, imperfect SSI about soil N levels will only be valuable in a typical Illinois farm if the costs of acquiring that information is not more than $1.05 per acre. Costs greater than this will not …
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Integration of Strategy and Economics: Triangulating on Agribusiness Competitiveness Through Strategy and Economic Theories
"Based on the results, this study concludes that the use of technical efficiency analysis using the DEA method as the basis to develop theoretically grounded strategic groups is a possibility. This efficiency group development can be classified as a ""deductive"" or a posteori approach, since there …
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Financial Structure of Corn -Belt Cow -Calf Enterprises: The Impact of Alliance Participation on Producer Financial Position
This study looks at how participation in an alliance affects the financial position of Corn-belt Cow-Calf producers. The study finds the risk-return theory to be intact as income variability rises with the added expected returns of alliance participation. Additionally, the results suggest that the …
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Cross -Commodity Price Linkages: A Cointegration Analysis of Food Markets in Java
Finally, this study has shown that cross-commodity price linkages do exist and it is not due to the influence of the urea price. In cointegrated markets, competitive profit-seeking activities of commodities arbitragers occur. The process of arbitrage keeps prices in different commodity markets in …
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