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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Division of labor: OEX1 and POL1A/POL1B are partial derivatives of prokaryotic DNA polymerase required for mitochondrial genome maintenance in plants. [PDF]

Plant Cell
Kolli R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Possible interactions between gut microbiome and division of labor in honey bees. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Wang K, Zheng M, Cai M, Zhang Y, Fan Y, Lin Z, Wang Z, Niu Q, Ji T.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
wiley   +1 more source

Programming Dynamic Division of Labor Using Horizontal Gene Transfer. [PDF]

ACS Synth Biol
Hamrick GS, Maddamsetti R, Son HI, Wilson ML, Davis HM, You L.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Functional division of labor in motility, lignocellulose digestion, and nitrogen metabolism revealed for the Mixotricha paradoxa holobiont. [PDF]

ISME J
Fu J, Liu Y, Yoshioka T, Igai K, Mabuchi T, Kihara K, Murakami T, Lo N, Ohkuma M, Hongoh Y.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe, Juo‐Han Tsay, Sarah A. Low   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A longitudinal dyadic analysis of financial strain and mental distress among different-sex couples: the role of gender division of labor in income and housework. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Cui S, Jing FF, Ma H, Zhu M, Yan Y, Wang S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source