The study analyzed the relationship between climate change, bank credit, and cereal production in Kenya based on quarterly data covering the period 2000-2023 using autoregressive distributed lag approach. The study used CO2 emissions, average precipitation, and average temperature as indicators...

This study aimed to analyze the obstacles to lowering demurrage at a grain terminal. After conducting in-depth interviews with working-level staff in grain terminal, 12 factors were selected to derive key factors for reducing demurrage. The Consistent Fuzzy Preference Relations methodology,...

This paper assesses the impact of the Black Sea Grain Initiative on the grain futures market. We rely on counterfactual evaluation techniques and detailed futures price series to estimate how corn and wheat futures prices and historical volatility responded to the Grain Deal enforcement,...

The widespread application of data technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things plays an important role in promoting agricultural technology innovation. This article uses the 2022 survey data of farmers' economic behaviour in Hubei Province, China to...

This research delves into the underlying impacts of farmers' innovative entrepreneurship on agricultural and rural economic development in China, adopting a dynamic and spatio-temporal perspective. The study utilizes panel data encompassing 30 provinces (cities and autonomous regions) from 2015...

This study utilizes micro-level farm panel data from 2007 to 2012 to measure the technical efficiency of grain production among farms using a stochastic frontier analysis model. Additionally, it employs a two-way fixed effects model to empirically investigate the impact of fiscal support for...

Improving sorghum adoption rate by developing adapted varieties that meet end-user preferences is a major challenge in West Africa. In this study, a participatory rural appraisal was undertaken to identify the main sorghum production constraints, farmers’ preferred traits and their perceptions...

Mechanization is expanding rapidly in developing countries. However, long-term use of agricultural machinery is projected to result in additional carbon emissions. Actually, major changes in mechanized production have already occurred, affecting agricultural systems' environmental performance....

This paper analyzes 30+ years of county data including soil, weather, and yield of corn provided by Seong Do Yun and Benjamin M Gramig. With the prevalent rise in organic agriculture, ruralities slowly suffer from less optimized crop growth. The paper depicts the use of a polynomial regression...

This is a replication of Mayshar et al. (2022) (henceforth MMP).1 The article posits that the state (defined as societal hierarchy such as tax-levying elites) originated from cultivation of appropriable cereal grains, contrary to the conventional theory that the state originated from increased...

The conflict between Ukraine and Russia raises several questions and uncertainty about the cereal supply chain and market trends. This international crisis and other factors influencing the market, such as the environmental and climate ones, have placed greater attention on Italy's dependence on...

"High in the Peruvian altiplano, 13,000 feet above sea level, quinoa's rise to global stardom was pitched as an unparalleled sustainable development opportunity that heralded a brighter future for rural communities devastated by decades of rural-urban migration, civil war, and state neglect....

China reached the Lewis turning point in the first decade of the twenty-first century. While the impact of increasing wages was insignificant in the pre-Lewis turning point era, its negative impact on agriculture may be substantial in the post-Lewis turning point era. By analyzing a theoretical...

In mid-hill of Nepal, the cereal-legume intercropping has popularly been practice to optimize yield potentiality and profitability, however, intercropping facilitating variety of maize are hardly tested. A field experiment was conducted at Agriculture Knowledge Center, Ghyalchowk, Gorkha in...

Ethiopian economy relies on Agriculture, but it is highly dependent on rainfall. Rainfall is highly varying spatially and temporally affecting cropping pattern and productivity. Drought incidences and prolonged dry days during crop growing season are the leading challenges of agricultural...

The increasing population, water scarcity, and labor cost demand more high-yield, water-saving, and efficient maize production. Grain mechanical harvesting, the quality of which is mainly influenced by grain moisture content, can improve the efficiency and decrease the harvest cost of maize...

An extraordinary high-strength dilute Mg-0.8Al-0.1Ca-0.6Mn (wt. %) alloy wire was successfully developed by hot drawing, which exhibits high tensile yield strength of 394 MPa, ultimate tensile strength of 431 MPa and moderate elongation to failure of 6.0%. The high strength was mainly attributed...

The aim of the present study is to investigate the microstructure and mechanical properties of the Al/Cu/Sn/Ni multi-layered composite (MLC) processed by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) at room temperature over seventh cycle. Microstructural results by scanning electron microscopy show that the...

A novel mathematical model based on the recently proposed Changing Grain Size Model (CGSM) was developed to take into account the grain size distribution, the sintering effect, and the grains overlapping phenomenon in the particle during the carbonation and calcination of pure limestone. The...

Starting in the 1930s, commercial hybrid corn seeds rapidly replaced the once predominant open-pollinated varieties planted by farmers. By the mid-1950s almost all corn grown in the United States was of hybrid varieties. Observers have argued that the drought tolerant qualities of these hybrids...

Based on the 2016-2017 farm survey data, this study examines technical efficiency in the production of wheat, rice, and maize in Punjab province in Pakistan. Technical efficiency, under varying returns to scale, in wheat farming averaged 0.65; in rice, it averaged 0.74, and in the case of maize,...

New production from public and exclusive varieties released by the small grains breeding program at Virginia Tech generated cumulative discounted benefits of $41 million from 2000 to 2018. Fitted yields from field trials were combined with acreage estimates to generate weighted average yields...

This study examined the effects of research-based recommended cereal production practices on the technical efficiency of farm households based on household-level data generated from questionnaire surveys, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. The technical efficiency scores were...