Tropical Animal Science Journal, 2019 The objective of this study is to evaluate the characteristics of smallholder beef cattle production in Central Vietnam. A total of 360 households were interviewed by using semi-structured questionnaire; a total of 606 beef cows were investigated for ...
D. V. Dung +4 more
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Long-Run Trends in the Farm Size Distribution in Israel: The Role of Part-Time Farming [PDF]
This article proposes a nonparametric analysis in which the change in the distribution of farm size between two periods is decomposed into several components, and the contributions of subgroups of farms to this change are analyzed.
Kimhi, Ayal, Tzur, Nitzan
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Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
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Unbalanced fertilizer use in the Eastern Gangetic Plain: The influence of Government recommendations, fertilizer type, farm size and cropping patterns. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2022 Islam MS, Bell RW, Miah MAM, Alam MJ.
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Global dataset on mean farm size reveals important subnational variability
Environmental Research: Food SystemsFarm size is a key farming system characteristic at the heart of debates on productivity, land reform, smallholder production and livelihoods, and sustainability outcomes. Several global or regional datasets on farm size exist that form the foundation of
Julie Fortin +4 more
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EU FADN farm classification: first experience of Ukraine in a European perspective
Статистика УкраїниThe article analyzes the typology of agricultural holdings within the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) and its impact on the formation of the common agricultural policy. The study emphasizes the importance of FADN as a tool for collecting, processing
L. O. Yashchenko +3 more
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Efficiency, Environmental Contaminants and Farm Size: Testing for Links Using Stochastic Production Frontiers. [PDF]
This paper investigates whether there is any relationship between farm size, technical efficiency and the use of agrochemicals which are potentially environmentally contaminating.
Julie Whittaker, Kaddour Hadri
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Structural development in Danish agriculture and its implications for farmland nature [PDF]
, 2006 During the last decades, development of Danish agriculture was characterised by concentration of land on fewer and larger farms and consequently increasing farm sizes.
Frederiksen, Pia +2 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Influence of Farm Size on Estimated Breeding Values and Selection Indices in Romanian Spotted Cows
Scientific Papers Animal Science and Biotechnologies, 2023 Researches were carried out on 3186 lactations obtained from Romanian Spotted cows raised in farms from Bihor County that were enrolled in official performance control scheme.
Bogdan-Roberto Mihuța +4 more
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