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A Preliminary Analysis of the Benefits of Introducing Apomixis into Rice

Frisvold, George B.; Bicknell, Kathryn; Bicknell, Ross - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005

The objective of this research is to undertake an ex ante economic analysis of basic scientific research that aims to identify the gene(s) that control apomictic reproduction, with the ultimate aim of transferring the characteristic into commercially important crops. This paper reports very...

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Niche Agribusiness Supply Chains and the Channel Coordinator’s Role in their Creation and Management

Patterson, Alastair; Martin, Sandra; Mollenkopf, Diane A. - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2005

, focussed on delivering a product with specific attributes to the target niche, the supply chain will be incapable of working in … attributes to a target market niche. A framework is developed to determine the factors that will influence the strategy of a … and profitably to reach the target market niche with the product attributes desired. …

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Pengembangan agribisnis berbasis palawija di Indonesia: perannya dalam peningkatan ketahanan pangan dan pengentasan kemiskinan: prosiding seminar nasional, Bogor, 13 Juli 2006

Napitupulu, Togar Alam; Manikmas, Made Oka A.; Kasim, … - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific …

This book is a proceeding of a national seminar on the development of secondary crops-based agribusiness in Indonesia … for Food Crops Research and Development (ICFORD). It was attended by farmers, agribusiness players, researchers …

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Productivity of heli-logging with the Sikorsky S-61F, S-64E and S-64F in Sarawak

Bigsby, Hugh; Ling, Ling - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2013

Selection logging in the tropics is increasingly moving to systems that reduce the impact of harvesting operations on forests and soils. While much of the focus has been on modifying the tractor logging system using RIL principles, alternative harvesting systems have also been introduced. One of...

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The Carbon Challenge for Mixed Enterprise Farms

Kingwell, Ross S. - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2009

As part of its climate change policy the Australian government has introduced a Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET) scheme and is also attempting to introduce a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS). Using as a case study a main agricultural region of Australia, this paper examines how...

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Economic Assessment of Selected Resource Management Techniques in Marginal Upland Agriculture: Case Studies of India

Singh, Mahander; Munda, G.C. - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 1998

This case study aims to analyze the impact of the most important agro-techniques, i.e., land leveling, field bunding, gypsum application and the sprinkler method of irrigation on the performance of pearl millet-wheat and pearl millet-mustard cropping systems with saline/alkaline water irrigation...

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Impact analysis of expanding biomass energy use to rural poverty in tropical Asia

Siregar, Masdjidin; Sugino, Tomohide - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2008

Since the Kyoto Protocol came into effect in 2005, more attention has been paid to the development of biomass resource use. The tropical Asian countries have large potential for biomass production. In order to reduce imported fuel, the Government of Indonesia is attempting to find alternative...

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The Economic Determinants of the On-farm Management of Rice Cultivars in the Rhone River Delta (France)

Jaeck, Melanie; Lifran, Robert - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011

The aims of our paper are to identify economic determinants of the on-farm cultivars diversity and to empirically characterize the farmers' diversification choices. We focus on the private decision making process involving the choice of rice cultivars and the corresponding allocation of...

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How Important is Reputation for New Zealand Wine Makers?

Bicknell, Kathryn; MacDonald, Ian - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2009

The wine industry in New Zealand has been maturing over the past few decades, with consumers becoming more sophisticated and wineries responding by increasing their production of premium varieties. In addition, there have been several legal changes and subsequent changes to the distribution and...

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A Binomial Tree Approach to Valuing Fixed Rotation Forests and Flexible Rotation Forests Under a Mean Reverting Timber Price Process

Tee, James; Scarpa, Riccardo; Marsh, Dan; Guthrie, Graeme - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010

NPV and LEV are established and common approaches to valuing single rotation and infinite rotation forests respectively, when the rotation age is fixed in advanced. More recently, Real Options approaches have been employed to value single and infinite rotation forests with a flexible harvest...

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