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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad +5 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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, 1892 Also available in microfilm under: State agricultural ...
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. Agricultural Experiment Station
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Eighth Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the A.&M. College, Auburn, Alabama, January 25, 1896. [PDF]
, 1896 Also available in microfilm under: State agricultural ...
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. Agricultural Experiment Station
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Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang +3 more
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Highlights of agricultural research, Vol. 44, no. 2, Summer 1997
, 1997 Bibliography of agriculture, 0006-1530. Chemical abstracts, 0009-2258. Cover title. Also available on microfilm from: Spaulding: Graphic Microfilm Division under title: State agricultural ...
Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station
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Sixth Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the A.&M. College, Auburn, Alabama, January 15, 1894 [PDF]
, 1894 Also available in microfilm under: State agricultural ...
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. Agricultural Experiment Station
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THE RESOURCE POLICY OF THE AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISE
International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences, 2015 The mutual relation of resource planning and resource policy of the agricultural enterprise was shown. The basic directions and approaches to the shaping of resource policy in the financial - economic mechanism of agricultural enterprises were substantiated.
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Food inflation pass‐through from agricultural imports in a small open economy
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a new framework for quantifying cost pass‐through in a small open economy by estimating firm‐level markup responses to agricultural import price shocks. We show theoretically that markup adjustments depend on firms' reliance on imported inputs and demand curvature, generating heterogeneous inflationary effects across firm ...
Minseong Kang, Seungki Lee
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