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| Ganewatta, Gaminda; Edwards, Geoff W.. |
| In the slowly growing global tea market Lanka has not performed as well relative to its competitors in recent times as it did in the past. Sri Lanka needs to improve the efficiency of its industry to remain competitive in world tea market. Improving efficiency and international competitiveness in the Sri Lanka tea industry requires that the high costs of production, associated with low productivity, be reduced. Tea producers have the main responsibility for this. However, for improving efficiency and achieving international competitiveness, it is necessary that government policies for the tea industry are consistent with correction of market failures. This is not the case at present, with government policies for the tea industry directed partly to... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy. |
| Ano: 2000 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123648 |
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| Ganewatta, Gaminda; Grahlmann, Linda; Handmer, John. |
| Allocating scare resources for fire management strategies requires information on the extent of economic losses from bushfires and the efficiency of alternatives. Despite the severity of bushfires, there is no agreed approach in Australia for estimating economic losses from fires nor for evaluating the economic efficiency of alternative suppression strategies. The poster proposes approaches to assess the economic effects of bushfires on local and state economies and sets out models to evaluate the economic efficiency of two key bushfire management strategies: presuppression and suppression. The first model arises from questions concerning the value of pre-suppression (before the fire) fuel reduction activities, and the estimation of an economically optimal... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy; A11; H4; Q51; Q54. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25278 |
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