Labor Cost and Technology Adoption: Least Squares Monte Carlo Method for the Case of Sugarcane Mechanization in Florida [PDF]
The prospect of immigration reform has renewed farmers’ concerns of serious labor shortages and cost increases, which may urge highly labor-intensive specialty crop farmers to switch to less-labor-intensive technology.
Emerson, Robert D. +2 more
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Trends of Mechanization in Indian Agricultural Fields – A Review
, 2021 Aditya Manwatkar +3 more
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Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Citizen Engagement for Social and Technological Innovation in Sustainable Energy Systems
Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.This study underscores the potential of citizen participation in the energy transition by providing insights to foster citizen‐driven innovation. An analysis of energy communities, one of the most dynamic innovations in the energy sector, reveals that these models can be citizen‐led initiatives regarding their operational and organizational structure ...
Ana Belén Cristóbal +3 more
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Environmental Value of Draught Animals: Saving of Fossil-fuel and Prevention of Greenhouse Gas Emission [PDF]
Animal energy is a renewable and sustainable source of energy. It is renewable because the animals can be reproduced by breeding and rearing the required number of animals.
Birthal, Pratap Singh, Dikshit, A.K.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence Shaping the Future of Agri‐Food Innovation
AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.Emerging use cases of generative artificial intelligence in agri‐food innovation. ABSTRACT The recent surge in generative artificial intelligence (AI), typified by models such as GPT, diffusion models, and large vision‐language architectures, has begun to influence the agri‐food sector.
Jun‐Li Xu +2 more
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The Brazilian semi-arid tropic and agricultural research. [PDF]
, 2017 Legume and cereal crop; Cotton; Cassava; Fruit crops; Horticulture; Agricultural mechanization; Soil and water management; Optional crops; Forges; Forest; Animal production.bitstream/item/139847/1/ID-53204 ...
MENEZES, E. A.
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Reflections on management, scale, and mechanization in agriculture
, 1970 David Seckler, Seckler, David
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