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| Silveira, Vicente Celestino Pires; Viana, Joao Garibaldi Almeida; de Oliveira, Carolina Balbe; Vargas, Adriana Ferreira Da Costa. |
| Beef cattle production is suffering numerous difficulties in productive and economical terms in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Expanding new markets, competition with other meats, external competition through imported Mercosul beef, new growth and slaughter processes bring new challenges to the Brazilian livestock production. In the case of Rio Grande do Sul, another factor to be considered is the competition with Central States in the internal market. Meat prices received by farmers in the last years stayed constant, but prices of the main production inputs are still rising. This scenery brought continuous income decrease to the beef cattle farmers. As a result, many farmers are selling part of their lands or leaving beef cattle production. This paper... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Beef cattle systems; Gross profit; Cash flow; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24231 |
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| Bukenya, James O.; Hyuha, Theodora; Twinamasiko, Julius; Molnar, Joseph J.. |
| The paper examines profitability and market performance of small-scale fish traders selected randomly from a cross-section of nine fish markets in four districts in Central Uganda. Data were collected through a structured questionnaire which was designed to solicit information on traders’ socio-economic characteristics, marketing characteristics, operating costs and returns, and problems associated with fish marketing in the study area. Percentages were used to describe the socio-economic characteristics, market characteristic and problems associated with fish marketing while gross profit and marketing performance models were used to determine profitability, marketing margin and operational efficiency, respectively. The results suggest that fish trade is... |
| Tipo: Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Fish marketing; Survey data; Gross profit; Market margin; Operational efficiency; Uganda; Agribusiness; International Development; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/119527 |
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