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| Loveridge, Scott; Nyarwaya, Jean Baptiste; Shingiro, Emmanuel. |
| Most Rwandan coffee is currently grown and processed the same way it was a decade ago. Consequently, Rwanda’s coffee production and marketing system has not been able to keep up with changes in the global market for high quality coffee. Given world market gluts of relatively poor quality coffee, Rwanda is now exporting a product that fetches low prices. Despite the challenges in coffee marketing and production, coffee remains one of Rwanda’s most important official sources of foreign exchange and the drop in production is of major concern to both the public and private sectors. In an effort to assist decision makers in the coffee sector better understand factors affecting farmers’ production decisions and their attitudes about coffee, the FSRP fielded a... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Rwanda; Coffee; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55354 |
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| Sserunkuuma, Dick. |
| In spite of the fact that the Ugandan National Agricultural Research System has developed and released several production-enhancing technologies over a century, yields of most major crops at the farm level have been low. Given that about 80 percent of Uganda’s labor force is employed in agriculture, the scope for sustainable poverty reduction in Uganda depends very much on improving agricultural productivity. It is in this context, this paper examines why there has been poor adoption of production-enhancing technologies in the production of maize, which is a major crop in Uganda and what the impacts of the exiting production environment are on factor payments. This study reveals that farmers do not pay proper attention to soil fertility management, which... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Production-enhancing technologies; Maize; Land management; Poverty reduction; Crop Production/Industries; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/110145 |
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| Kabwe, Stephen; Donovan, Cynthia; Samazaka, David. |
| This research focuses on the performance in the Magoye ripper in maize and cotton production in Eastern and Southern Provinces during the 2004/2005 productions year. Findings include the following: In maize production, the ripper enabled higher yields compared to traditional animal ploughing, by increasing the effectiveness of nitrogen fertilizer applications, resulting in net profits per hectare of ZK575,800 in Eastern Province and ZK93,800 in Southern Province; In cotton, the input applications and size of fields were the most important determinants of yield, and the ripper had no significant individual effect. Farmers using the ripper indicated that it helped conserve water, enabled early land preparation and early planting; and Farmers not using their... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Zambia; Maize; Cotton; Inputs; Crop Production/Industries; Q18. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54623 |
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| Baylis, Katherine R.. |
| In this article we highlight the anticompetitive nature of antidumping (AD) legislation. Antidumping legislation was set up to protect domestic firms from predatory pricing by foreign firms. We argue that protecting highly concentrated industries drastically reduces competition at home. In cases where the industry consists only of one or two firms, import restriction may breed monopolies at the expense of domestic consumers. This article looks at cases filed by the agriculture sector, and at the market concentration of industries in this sector, to illustrate the above possibility. We study the case of fresh tomatoes in detail to further demonstrate the anticompetitive nature of AD legislation. We show the effect of AD legislation on imports, as well as... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Antidumping legislation; Competition; Fresh tomato industry; Crop Production/Industries; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6320 |
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| Ambec, Stefan; Langinier, Corinne; Lemarie, Stephane. |
| Inbred line seed producers face competition from their own consumers: farmers who save part of their harvest can costly self-produce. To reduce this competition, seed producers can switch to non-durable hybrid seed production. In a two-period model, we investigate what is the impact of crop durability on self-production, pricing strategies and switching decision. We first study the pricing decisions and switching decisions of an inbred line seed monopoly. Then, we analyze how the monopoly's behavior is affected by the entry of a hybrid seed producer. We also examine how the introduction of royalties on farmers who self-produce improves efficiency. Our main finding is that, for some constellation of costs, an inbred line seed monopoly has an incentive to... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/19251 |
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