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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Farm enterprises"”.
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A feasibility study for the sale of cultured catfish in Virginia and Washington, D.C.
… provides estimates of the market potential for farm-reared channel catfish in Virginia and Washington, D. C., the production costs and estimated returns of two small catfish farm enterprises, the present fisheries industry structure in Virginia, and the present channel catfish products and their …
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Micro-credit and household productivity : evidence from Bangladesh.
… output per unit labor for household non-farm enterprises in a large and statistically significant way. These increases in productivity can provide the means for sustained improvements in standard of living and contribute to the economic growth of low-income countries.
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Essays on child labour and schooling in Ghana
… repetition and test scores) and child labour in farming and non-farm enterprises. Using longitudinal data, the paper employs three different quasi-experimental methods (propensity score matching, difference-in-difference, and difference-in-difference combined with matching). Overall, the results …
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Adoption of non-traditional enterprises by Virginia farmers
… study investigates the role of non-traditional enterprises in rural economies and attempts to understand farmers’ decision to adopt non-traditional enterprises. Three separate mail surveys were conducted to collect socio-economic data from biological and organic, Angora goat, and ginseng farm …
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Analysis of households? modern energy deprivations beyond connections and access in the Northwest zone of Nigeria
… impact on the profits of households' non-farm enterprise beyond connections to the national grid? Secondly, to what extent does an improvement in the attributes of modern cooking solution influence households' health outcomes against the backdrop of widespread use of biomass for cooking? …
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An Economic Study of the Relative Profitability of Alfalfa Production and Marketing Practices
… comparison of alfalfa hay production to other farm enterprises was carried out. In addition, an estimate of the value of two qualities of alfalfa hay was calculated based on 1991 prices. The analysis of 41 years of marketing data demonstrated significant differences (P<.01) in price with …
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Sustainability of intensified agricultural production in the Boyne catchment.
… envisages increases in output across a range of farm enterprises – dairying, beef, sheep and pigs. The motivation for this study was to examine the environmental sustainability of the Food Harvest 2020 targets. The study was carried out on the River Boyne catchment area. A wide-ranging …
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Value chain competitiveness analysis: entrepreneurial behavioural practices determining business success in Uganda's commercial sugar and forestry industries
… of Ugandan commercial sugarcane and forestry farmers were selected, namely high and low performing entrepreneurs. Principal unit of analysis was the entire value chain, analyzed at three levels: Micro (Farm Enterprises), Meso (Farmer/Miller) and Macro (National Policies & Regulatory …
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An economic analysis of the potential of Virginia's processing tomato industry
In Virginia, the conventional method of farm production of processing tomatoes has lost its competitiveness to other farm enterprises due mainly to intensive labor requirements and low economic profit. Also, the tomato processing industry in Virginia and other Mid-Atlantic states has lost its …
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An investigation of everyday entrepreneurship in a resource-constrained context.
… to generate empirical data from thirty-one rural farmers in North-central Nigeria within their real-life settings. This approach provided a rare opportunity for the understudied entrepreneurial farmers to share their 'lived' experiences about their everyday farming activities in a …
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Analysis of the dynamics of government-supported smallholder baby vegetable enterprises for an integrated high-value development framework
… Eswatini embraces the integration of smallholder farmers into high-value crop production as a vehicle for inclusive green growth. However, the outcome of the sector remains low and hampers its contribution towards this goal. The study assessed the levels of technical, allocative and economic …
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The allocation of resources in Philippine corn farming
… input-output relationships on Philippine corn farms by fitting the Cobb-Douglas production function to survey data of 1,427 farm enterprises onumeratod from nine nolocted corn-growing regions for crop year 1972-73. The functional form of t}ie economic model is specified as: that the gross …
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The allocation of resources in Philippine corn farming
… input-output relationships on Philippine corn farms by fitting the Cobb-Douglas production function to survey data of 1,427 farm enterprises onumeratod from nine nolocted corn-growing regions for crop year 1972-73. The functional form of t}ie economic model is specified as: that the gross …
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The heterogeneous impacts of energy type and metering systems on household welfare: insights from Ghana and South Africa
… Two presents productive electricity use by non-farm enterprises in Ghana. Energy inputs such as electricity and fuel are essential drivers of enterprise development. The research employs the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS7) data to examine the importance of electricity usage on household …