Markets, Institutions, and the Quality of Agricultural Products: Cotton Quality in India [PDF]
The modern global textile industry requires cotton with strong and consistent fibers in order to produce high quality goods at the high speeds necessary to recover capital costs.
Landes, Rip +2 more
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Skeleton Islands of New Zealand and elsewhere [PDF]
, 1969 Skeleton Islands are a variety of the class of islands resulting from subsidence of dissected land, subcategory 4a of a classification of islands here offered. Such islands are characterised by development of a sprawling outline with a narrow axial ridge
Cotton, C.A.
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Comparison of Spider Populations of Ground Stratum in Arkansas Pasture and Adjacent Cultivated Field [PDF]
, 1963 Of 64 species of spiders taken from the ground stratum of an Arkansas pasture and adjoining cotton field, only 26 were common to both. Twenty-two were collected only in the cotton field; 16, only in the pasture.
Exline, Harriet +2 more
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The choice of tecnology in the Mediterranean basin : some evidence from the Spanish, Italian, British and us cotton mills(1830-1860). [PDF]
This paper is motivated by the attempt to understand the choice of technology in the cotton mills in the Mediterranean basin from 1830 to 1861. In the period before the I cotton famine I, alternative technological choices were relatively important ...
Rosés, Joan R.
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Nutritional value of Pleurotus (Flabellatus) Djamor (R-22) cultivated on sawdusts of different woods [PDF]
, 2013 The sawdust of different woods were investigat ed for the cultivation of exotic strain of Pleurotus (flabellatus) djamor (R-22) to find out the efficiency of different nutrients including protein, fat, crude fiber, ash, dry matter and moisture ...
Ajmal, M. +4 more
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PERSPECTIVES ON COTTON GLOBAL TRADE REFORMS [PDF]
World cotton prices fell to nearly unprecedented levels during the 2001/02 marketing year, causing distress to cotton producers and exporters worldwide. In a number of developing countries highly dependent on cotton for export earnings or where cotton is
MacDonald, Stephen +2 more
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YIELD RESPONSE IN PAKISTAN AGRICULTURE: A COINTEGRATION APPROACH [PDF]
We seek to quantify and evaluate the supply (yield) response of wheat and cotton in Pakistan using cointegration analysis and annual data for 1960-96. The results reveal that wheat supply is significantly influenced by the prices of wheat, cotton, and ...
Dawson, P.J., Mushtaq, Khalid
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Assessing the Perspectives of EU Cotton Farming: Technical and Scale Efficiencies of Greek Cotton Growers [PDF]
Utilizing the stochastic frontier approach, this paper estimates output and input-oriented technical and scale efficiency levels for a sample of cotton-growing farms in Thessaly, Greece. The empirical results suggest that Greek cotton farm operations are
Pantzios, Christos J. +2 more
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“We Live Subject to their Orders”: A Three-Province survey of Forced Child Labor in Uzbekistan’s 2008 Cotton Harvest [PDF]
, 2009 This report highlights the continued use of forced child labor in the cotton industry in Uzbekistan in the fall 2008 harvest. While international pressure from retailers and consumers has had some effect in curbing forced child labor in the production of
International Labor Rights Forum
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