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Ausgewählte Analysen zu den Rahmenbedingungen und zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Gartenbaus in Deutschland
Ludwig-Ohm, Sabine; Dirksmeyer, Walter - 2013
Organisation, Durchführung und Auswertung des Workshops "Kooperationen und Wert-schöpfungsketten im Gartenbau". Im Folgenden werden …-Zukunftsstrategie Gartenbau genutzt werden sollen. Die Untersuchungen dienen der Erarbeitung wettbewerbsrelevanter Informationen, kön-nen jedoch … Dienstleistungen unter dem Einfluss des demografischen Wandels, Bestandsaufnahme wichtiger staatlicher Einflussgrößen im Gartenbau und …
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Ausgewählte Analysen zu den Rahmenbedingungen und zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit des Gartenbaus in Deutschland
Ludwig-Ohm, Sabine; Dirksmeyer, Walter - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2013
Organisation, Durchführung und Auswertung des Workshops Kooperationen und Wert-schöpfungsketten im Gartenbau. Im Folgenden werden …-Zukunftsstrategie Gartenbau genutzt werden sollen. Die Untersuchungen dienen der Erarbeitung wettbewerbsrelevanter Informationen, kön-nen jedoch … Dienstleistungen unter dem Einfluss des demografischen Wandels, Bestandsaufnahme wichtiger staatlicher Einflussgrößen im Gartenbau und …
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Study of Cost Benefit Analysis of Managing Bt. Cotton Farming with Special Reference to Vidarbha
Timane, Rajesh - 2013
About forty lakh hectare of land is under cotton cultivation in Maharashtra. Once known as the prosperous cotton-belt; today the irony is that the state tops the list when it comes to suicides by farmers. Further, almost all of them are cotton farmers mostly from Vidarbha. At present, Vidarbha...
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Border effects on spatial price transmission between fresh tomato markets in Ghana and Burkina-Faso : any case for promoting trans-border trade in West Africa?
Amikuzuno, Joseph - 2011
Cross-border trade in food commodities within sub-regional economic blocks in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) is believed to be faster, cheaper, more convenient and welfare-enhancing than overseas trade between SSA countries and the USA, EU and the BRIC countries. The difficulty of commodity arbitrage...
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Contracting by Small Farmers in Commodities with Export Potential : Assessing Farm Profits of Lentil Growers in Nepal
Kumar, Anjani - 2016
This study is undertaken to quantify the benefits of contract farming (CF) on farmers' income in a case where new market opportunities are emerging for smallholder farmers in Nepal. CF is emerging as an important form of vertical coordination in the agrifood supply chain. The prospect for CF in...
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China's Role on the International Cotton Market
Zolin, Bruna - 2015
The aim of this paper is to investigate the main features of world cotton market by focusing on the role of China, and analyzing the effect of predetermined macroeconomic variables on Chinese cotton market. First, a global overview of cotton market is given; after that, the main reasons for...
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Information and Credit Constraints : Evidence from Horticultural Farmers in Rwanda
Abouaziza, Mohamed - 2020
Business plan competitions can be a crucial factor to boost entrepreneurship through mitigating information and credit constraints, but the existing literature does not address that their impacts could go beyond intended beneficiaries. In this paper, I cover this aspect by studying the overall...
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Alternative Land Management Strategies and Their Impact on Soil Conservation
Gomiero, Tiziano - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 3, pp. 464-483
Soil conservation is threatened by a number of factors, namely the effects of intensive agricultural practices, the increasing pressure for food production linked to the increasing human population, the consumption patterns in developed and emerging economies, and the conversion of agriculture...
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Productive Efficiency of Potato and Melon Growing Farms in Uzbekistan: A Two Stage Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis
Karimov, Aziz - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 3, pp. 503-515
This article is one of the first to carry out a non-parametric efficiency analysis of crop production in Uzbekistan. The study applies the bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute bias corrected technical efficiency (TE) scores using a sample of farms located in two regions of...
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Role of Arthropods in Maintaining Soil Fertility
Culliney, Thomas W. - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 4, pp. 629-659
In terms of species richness, arthropods may represent as much as 85% of the soil fauna. They comprise a large proportion of the meso- and macrofauna of the soil. Within the litter/soil system, five groups are chiefly represented: Isopoda, Myriapoda, Insecta, Acari, and Collembola, the latter...
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