Market integration is an important determinant of responsiveness and behavior of the markets needed to formulate price … policies. Indian wholesale milk markets are correlated with varying degrees of integration. Paper uses monthly wholesale prices … integration among different markets is tested using method and procedure for testing co-integration suggested by Johansen (1991 …

rough rice in Ghana for the period 1966-2009. Coefficients of the output response model were estimated through the ordinary … least squares (OLS) and tested for stability and appropriate standard Gaussian properties. Output of rough rice was found to … be positively and significantly driven by increases in harvested area, yield, own price and world price of rice with …

Characterized by weak local rice productivity, inefficient marketing and processing of paddy among other constraints …, the local rice sector in Côte d’Ivoire has failed to meet domestic rice consumption needs. In the absence of comprehension … action, the country is expected to face a deficit of 1,731,583 Mt in supply of rice by the year 2020, which could …

and a model of India's economy. The results suggest that a rise in the global rice price actually provides strong … swings in global markets, they also cause India to miss opportunities to benefit from buoyant global prices. …

Potato is the fourth major food crop after rice, wheat and maize in Bihar. It occupies less than 5% of net sown area … with production only 4th after rice, wheat and maize. Potato a short duration crop has special significance since it gives …

With local rice production lagging well behind demand as a result of low productivity of farmers’ fields, this study … analyzed the response of rice yields in Ghana to major internal and external factors which have direct and indirect effects on … production and to producers. Yield of rice was found to increase with producer price of rice, irrigated area, labor availability …

Policy makers have been striving through market reforms to ensure proper functioning of agricultural markets and … robustness and the limitations of other approaches. Results indicate that regional maize markets are integrated. Bidirectional … occurring between Brong Ahafo - Greater Accra markets linkage for positive deviations and Brong Ahafo - Ashanti market for …