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Access to agricultural markets and marketing information are essential factors in promoting competitive markets and … improving agricultural sector development. The agricultural sector employs majorities in developing countries and contributes … appropriate access to markets for their products and also, they are deprived of agricultural market information. As results …
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The Agricultural Cooperative is an autonomous association of natural and / or legal persons, as the case may be, a … agricultural co-operation, professional associations and the role of cooperatives in the development of agriculture. Also, the … types and forms of agricultural cooperation in the European Union will be presented. To create agricultural producers in …
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This study is an analysis of Thailand's rice export sector with reference to three major issues: government trade policy, trade performance, and the structure of trade preferences. In analyzing the rice trade policy, particularly the rice premium, both theoretical and empirical analyses were...
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reduction in agricultural regions. Based on empirical data, the paper presents the assessment of the "diversification effects … market. However, diversification of the employment structure of the agricultural regions is a factor reducing the risk of … rural unemployment. In rural regions the development of non-agricultural employment produces positive effects on the …
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The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a dramatic transformation of the Chilean agricultural sector. From … accounting for only five percent of the value of Chile's total exports in the late 1960s, agricultural exports grew to account … the transformation of the Chilean agricultural sector can be associated with institutional changes or modifications to the …
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In recent years, government aid agencies and international organizations have increased their financial commitments to controlling and eliminating malaria from the planet. This renewed emphasis on elimination is reminiscent of a previous worldwide campaign to eradicate malaria in the 1960s, a...
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Both options and better information about prices have been proposed to increase the attractiveness of livestock hedging strategies. This study examines the value of incorporating both into hedging strategies for live hogs. A two-period simulation model in which a hog producer chooses a hedging...
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Exchanges of either long term rights (property right transfer) or spot rights (rights rental) to water may result in third party effects that place practical limits on the geographic scope of a water market. The result will be a market with few eligible participants. A "thin" market suffers from...
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Food firms can improve their profits by focusing on one or a few specialized activities because of efficiency gains and/or market power benefits. This study documents that profits increase with increasing concentration for firms in food industries whose top-4-concentration ratio is greater than 38%.
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As a result of the unique segmentation of the international rice market, and the dominance of US and Thailand within certain market segments, a model of monopolistic price discrimination is developed in this study to examine export price adjustment in response to exchange rate fluctuations. The...
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