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industries that serve as the lifeblood of Mindanao's economy for many years such as banana and pineapple. Production of these … sustainability. Agricultural contracts in banana and pineapple were analyzed using the principal-agent framework. The structure …
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The socio-economic situation of small banana growers generated a lot of issues among researchers. However, the …
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The paper investigates spatial changes in cultivation and land use of wheat, maize and oilseed in Hungarian agriculture using different methods to measure these changes. The results suggest that spatial structure of crop productions has remained fairly stable during analysed period. The spatial...
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Agriculture was the mainstay of the Nigerian economy prior to independence and immediately after. Agriculture however, has suffered persistent decline since the 1970s with the exchange rate policy being implicated in the misfortune of this sector. Earlier studies on the effect of exchange rate...
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realistic. As a result, selection bias in adoption parameters may occur. We focus on tissue culture (TC) banana technology that … of Kenyan banana farmers, we find that estimated adoption parameters differ little when comparing the classical adoption …
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Agricultural crop insurance is a risk management tool to counter shocks and risks in banana production. It is a … made an impact on banana growers in terms of managing risks and their well-being. The inputs, outputs, and outcomes … not sufficient to create impact on stabilizing income of banana farmers hit by shocks. This could be attributed to low …
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focusing on three export crops, namely, banana, pineapple, and sugarcane which were selected based on their significant …
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/diseases mitigation, and developing climate change adaptation strategies. Banana, an important staple food and cash crop in East Africa …, is threatened by Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW) disease. Yet, there is no up-to-date information about the spatial … distribution and extent of banana lands, especially in Rwanda, where banana plays a key role in food security and livelihood …
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/implications - This study only investigated damage incidence in three post-harvest banana SCs in Australia and the damage assessments were …
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