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Farm status and knowledge level in guava post harvest system
Environment Conservation Journal, 2016 Post harvest handling of guava is the stage of crop production immediately following harvest, including cooling, cleaning, grading, packing and marketing.
C. Sivananth +2 more
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Agricultural Profits and Farm Household Wealth: A Farm-level Analysis Using Repeated Cross Sections [PDF]
This study examines the relationship between agricultural profits and farm household wealth across locations and farm sizes in U.S. agriculture. A multiperiod household model is used to develop hypotheses for testing.
Blank, Steven C. +3 more
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
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Value-adding in Forestry at the Farm and Community Level
Annals of Tropical Research, 2003 Subsistence farmers have long recognized the importance of trees as a source of many goods, services and amenities. However, central to tree growing activities should be the development of opportunities for farmers to generate and improve their income ...
Dennis P. Peque
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Farm Level Impacts of Bt Corn Adoption in a Developing Country: Evidence from the Philippines [PDF]
This article examines the ex post farm-level impacts of Bt corn adoption in the Philippines. Using an econometric approach that addresses simultaneity, selection, and censoring problems, we show that Bt corn adoption provides modest but statistically ...
Pan, Suwen +3 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina +1 more
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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE KNOWLEDGE LEVELS OF ORGANIZED AND UNORGANIZED PIG FARM OWNERS IN RANCHI DISTRICT OF JHARKHAND [PDF]
Exploratory Animal and Medical Research, 2012 The present study was conducted in Ranchi district of Jharkhand to compare the knowledge levels of organized and unorganized pig farm owners about improved pig rearing practices.
Varun Kumar Mahto +3 more
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Commodity Payments, Farm Business Survival, and Farm Size Growth [PDF]
In the last 25 years, U.S. crop farms have steadily declined in number and grown in average size, as production has shifted to larger operations. Larger farms tend to receive more commodity program payments because most payments are tied to a farm’s ...
Roberts, Michael J., Key, Nigel D.
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Bio-based and Applied Economics, 2014 The 2014 U.S. Farm Act has new programs for providing producers with commodity support payments covering “shallow losses” in revenue. We develop an approach to examine the sensitivity of the farmer’s downside risk protection to marginal changes in the ...
Joseph Cooper, Benoit Delbecq
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