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Adoption of Maize Production Technologies in the Coastal Lowlands of Kenya
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Wekesa,   E.; Mwangi,   Wilfred; Verkuijl,   Hugo; Danda,   Milton Kengo; De Groote,   Hugo.
Maize is the major food crop grown in the coastal region of Kenya and constitutes a major component of the diet of the population in the region. However, average yields are far below the potential for the region and low production levels create serious food deficits. Over the years, new technologies have been introduced but adoption has remained low, especially for fertilizer. This paper examined current maize-farming practices and technological and socioeconomic factors that influenced adoption in the Kilifi and Kwale Districts of the Coast Province, that together account for half of maize production in the region. The study found low adoption levels for improved maize varieties and technology, especially fertilizer, among farmers in the area. Farmers...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Maize; Crops; Innovation adoption; Technology transfer; Food production; Production economics; Production factors; Plant breeding; Fertilizers; Yields; Kenya; Crop Production/Industries; E14; E16.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56109

Estimating the Economic Value of Specific Characteristics Associated with Angus Bulls Sold at Auction
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Jones,   Rodney D.; Turner,   Tyler; Dhuyvetter,   Kevin C.; Marsh,   Thomas L.
The genetic traits of a purebred bull convey the reproductive and economic value to buyers. This study examines and compares the value of actual production weights (birth, weaning, and yearling weight), production expected progeny differences (EPDs) (birth, weaning, milk, and yearling), and ultrasound EPDs (carcass quality predictors) for purebred Angus bulls sold at auction. One EPD, birth weight, was valued by buyers more than its corresponding actual weight, though both actual weights and EPDs significantly impact price. Predictors of carcass quality were important in determining price. Finally, several individual animal factors and sale characteristics were significant in determining price.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Angus bulls; Carcass characteristics; EPDs; Marketing factors; Production factors; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Livestock Production/Industries; Q10; Q12.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/45528

Interactions between the Agricultural Sector and the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Implications for Agricultural Policy
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Jayne,   Thomas S.; Villarreal,   Marcela; Pingali,   Prabhu L.; Hemrich,   Gunter.
This paper considers how the design of agricultural policies and programmes might be modified to better achieve policy objectives in the context of severe HIV epidemics and underscores the central role of agricultural policy in mitigating the spread and impacts of the epidemic. Based on projections of future demographic change in the hardest-hit countries of eastern and southern Africa, HIV/AIDS is likely to have the following effects on the agricultural sector: (1) increased rural inequality caused by disproportionately severe effects of AIDS on relatively poor households; (2) a reduction in household assets and wealth, leading to less capital-intensive cropping systems for severely affected communities and households; and (3) problems in transferring...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Agricultural policy; HIV/AIDS; Structural transformation; Production factors; Agricultural and Food Policy; Health Economics and Policy; Downloads July 2008-July 2009: 8; Q18 - Agricultural Policy; Food Policy; J43 - Agricultural Labour Markets; O12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development.
Ano: 2004
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54046

Market Integration of Household Plots in Ukraine - The Impact of Social Capital
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Wolz,   Axel; Fritzsch,   Jana; Buchenrieder,   Gertrud; Nedoborovskyy,   Andriy.
Following the two rounds of land reform in Ukraine since independence, household plot farmers emerged as the major suppliers to agricultural production. But they form a very heterogeneous group. Not all of them are equally successful, economically, and integrated to markets. In general, a varying adoption of production factors is identified as being of influence. In this paper, we argue that social capital is an additional factor contributing to higher agricultural incomes. We tested our thesis using primary evidence from a survey in Ukraine among 255 household plot farmers in 2006. Based on 24 social capital indicators we deduced four separate index variables linking the social capital dimension of form, i.e. structural and cognitive, with the social...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Production factors; Social capital; Ukraine; Labor and Human Capital.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43842

Adoption and Impacts of Improved Maize Production Technology: A Case Study of the Ghana Grains Development Project
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Morris,   Michael L.; Tripp,   Robert; Dankyi,   A.A.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Ghana; Maize; Zea mays; Plant production; Seed production; Productivity; Production factors; High yielding varieties; Fertilizer application; Cropping systems; Farming systems; Farm income; On farm research; Extension activities; Research projects; Technology transfer; Appropriate technology; Innovation adoption; Socioeconomic environment; Economic analysis; Economic trends; Economic policies; Human nutrition; Surveys; Sampling; Case studies; Agroecological zones; Ghana Grains Development Project; Crop Production/Industries.
Ano: 1999
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48767

ECONOMIC SITUATION OF MOLDAVIANS FARM ENTERPRISES
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Cimpoies,   Dragos; Schulze,   Eberhard.
The given Discussion Paper represents the results of a questionnaire, conducted in 2003, on basic economic questions in 104 Moldavian farm enterprises. The received results continue the cycle of research activities concerning the privatization and restructuring of farm enterprises in different countries of Central and Eastern Europe, are written on a similar structure, allowing to carry out a comparative analysis between the countries of the region. To some extent, the given paper can be regarded as a continuation of the Discussion Paper 60. As the base for the analysis "the standardized questionnaire" has been put forward, developed by IAMO, being advanced and adapted by the authors to local conditions. Study of the activity of farm enterprises of...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Consolidation; Land lease; Production factors; Buy-sell; Work force; Legal forms; Moldova; Konsolidierung; Verpachtung; Produktionsfaktoren; Kauf und Verkauf; Arbeitskräfte; Rechtsformen; Консолидация; Аренда; Производственные ресурсы; Купля-продажа; Трудовые ресурсы; Организационно-правовые формы; Молдова.; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Farm Management; Industrial Organization; International Development; Labor and Human Capital; Productivity Analysis; С 81; Q12; D25; O1; O4; P3.
Ano: 2006
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/92020

THE IMPACT OF CONSERVATION TILLAGE ON THE PRODUCTIVITY AND STABILITY OF MAIZE CROPPING SYSTEMS: A CASE STUDY IN WESTERN MEXICO
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Jourdain,   Damien; Scopel,   Eric; Affholder,   Francois.
This paper examines the economics of introducing conservation tillage into maize cropping systems in the state of Jalisco, in the western part of Mexico. A stochastic cost-benefit analysis (SCBA) of introducing conservation tillage in two contrasting agro-climatic zones in the four main maize management systems in the area was carried out. The SCBA takes into account the effects of conservation tillage on average returns and fully evaluates its potential risk-reducing aspect. The SCBA results were then used for a stochastic dominance analysis to evaluate farmers' incentives, characterized by their aversion to risk. The analysis reveals that although conservation tillage is economically viable, cash-constrained farmers, especially in the dry areas, may not...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Mexico; Jalisco; Plant production; Production factors; Cropping systems; Conservation tillage; Innovation adoption; Input output analysis; Economic analysis; Small farms; Productivity Analysis.
Ano: 2001
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/46549

Transformações na agricultura brasileira: uma abordagem espacial dos Censos Agropecuários de 1996 e 2006
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Alcantara Filho,   José Luiz; Scalco,   Paulo Roberto; Gomes,   Adriano Provezano.
O presente trabalho teve como objetivo analisar a dinâmica da agricultura brasileira, a partir dos dados preliminares do Censo agropecuário de 2006 em relação ao Censo de 1996. Para tanto, utilizou-se a metodologia de econometria espacial, mais especificamente análise exploratória de dados espaciais (AEDE) para verificar a formação de clusters espaciais, bem como, as mudanças ocorridas no período analisado. Em suma, verificou-se a existência de dependência espacial entre as microrregiões analisadas, assim, regiões que em 1996 eram intensivas na utilização de terra, trabalho e tratores, em 2006 tenderam a permanecer com as mesmas características, além de influenciar positivamente suas regiões vizinhas. Além disso, verificou-se um relação inversa entre o...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Agricultura; Econometria espacial; Fatores de produção; Agriculture; Spatial econometric; Production factors; Agribusiness.
Ano: 2008
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/106093

Comparison of milk production costs among EU members
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
Autores: Mach,   Jiri; Rezbova,   Helena.
This paper attempts to identify factors which influence the effectiveness of milk production. The basic aim is to compare levels of costs in the dairy industry between Czech and European producers. The average cost per 100 kg ECM milk is determined from data provided by the European Dairy Farmers association (EDF). The total costs per 1 litre of Czech milk producers are on the European average level with high production efficiency. The problem is only in the utilisation of basic production factors, especially land and labour.
Tipo: Journal Article
Palavras-chave: Milk production; Costs; Profitability; Production factors; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Financial Economics.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96847

Wheat Facts and Futures 2009
Provedor de dados: Research in Agricultural & Applied Economics (AgEcon Searh)
For nearly half a century, the international wheat breeding system has delivered improved high yielding varieties of wheat that created (along with rice) the Green Revolution and underpinned strong growth in wheat productivity in irrigated and rainfed, developed and underdeveloped, regions. Future priorities for breeding and complementary sciences will still include yield but will also diversify in response to changing market demands and growing environments, particulary in developing countries. It is argued that in the coming decades research on wheat quality characteristics will become increasingly important to plant breeders, whose work will be supported by the development of markers and advanced tools from molecular biology. Breeders will have to...
Tipo: Report
Palavras-chave: Wheats; Food production; Production factors; Production increase; Economic environment; Climatic change; Economic trends; Statistical data; Developing countries; Crop Production/Industries; E14; E16.
Ano: 2009
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56366

Study on production factors of sorghum planting
Provedor de dados: Thai Agricultural Research Repository
Autores: Walipa Suchato; Artasit Boontum; Praphan Prasertsak; Prasong Sitthithai; Vittaya Meerak.
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Palavras-chave: Sorghum; Production factors; Broadcast planting; Row planting; ข้าวฟ่าง; ปัจจัยการผลิต; ต้นทุน; ผลตอบแทน; วิธีการปลูก; ผลผลิต.
Ano: 1990
URL: http://anchan.lib.ku.ac.th/agnet/handle/001/4291

การประเมินความสัมพันธ์และประสิทธิภาพของปัจจัยการผลิตต่อผลผลิตข้าวในเขตจังหวัดพิษณุโลกโดยแบบจำลองทางการเกษตร
Provedor de dados: Thai Agricultural Research Repository
Autores: Wanwisa Pansak; Wipa Homhaul.
Rice is a major food crop and cash crop in Thailand.  In 2011, average rice production in Thailand was about 460 kg per rai, which is considered as low productivity comparing with other countries (Rice Department, 2554). The reasons relate to various factors affecting production such as soil condition, weather condition, irrigation, and farmer managements in each area. The objective of this study is to investigate the deep relationships between quantitative inputs and rice production by an agricultural model (WaNuLCAS model) as a tool for analysis of their relationships. In this study, 9 districts of Phitsanulok province are considered. The areas of study are divided into external and internal irrigation. Within this research, we have created database of...
Tipo: PhysicalObject
Palavras-chave: WaNuLCAS model; Rice production; Production factors; ข้าว; ผลผลิต; ปัจจัยการผลิต; แบบจำลองทางการเกษตร; จ.พิษณุโลก.
Ano: 2013
URL: http://anchan.lib.ku.ac.th/agnet/handle/001/5602