The study shows the efficiency of the dairy cooperative depending on the level of their current financial liquidity. Cooperatives were grouped according to the current liquidity ratio using quartiles methods and significance e test of the differences between the groups was conducted on the...

The complexity of managing physical and financial risk throughout the commodity production, processing and merchandising chain presents numerous challenges. To solve this problem commercials are increasingly turning to Energy and Commodity Transaction Risk Management (E/CTRM) systems. Still,...

The lowering of import duties on pork from August 2012 following Russia's accession to the WTO resulted in the decrease of prices for this product and the decline of profitability of domestic pig production. Combined with a whole set of other factors this dragged the problems of the sector forth...

should the prevailing market price be below the pre-specified MSP. In this paper, we consider a market consisting of infinitesimally small, rational, and strategic farmers(with heterogeneous production costs) who face market and yield uncertainties. Our equilibrium analysis reveals that (i)...

The agriculture in Bihar is still grappled with low investment and low input agriculture and therefore besides low productivity, growth in production and productivity of most of the major crops are quite low as compared to other developed states. Though agriculture contributes more than 40 per...

This paper deals with the analysis of the impact of credit rationing on the farmer's economic equilibrium and the analysis of different policy scenarios in a derived neoclassical adjustment cost framework. The theoretical model is an optimal dynamic investment model, in which the upper bound on...

Index-insurance is becoming increasingly popular because of its ability to provide low-cost, relatively easy to implement agricultural insurance for vegetation types whose productivity has been notoriously difficult to measure and to farmers in less-developed nations where traditional crop...

A regulação da propriedade privada pode ser considerada como a forma mais essencial de regulação. O caráter central da regulação da propriedade privada para a maioria dos sistemas jurídicos não se justifica apenas do ponto de vista acadêmico ou ideológico. Tal entendimento tem uma...

I develop and estimate a dynamic stochastic optimization model to assess the impact of weather insurance on the consumption, investment, and welfare of farmers in developing countries. Weather insurance has the potential to provide large welfare gains, equivalent to a permanent increase in...