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Business results change under effects of farm size and degree of production specialization [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural Sciences (Belgrade), 2003 The study was conducted with the objective of analyzing the economic effects provoked by the change in farm size, depending on the degree of production specialization (questionnaires encompassing 30 farms of different size were used) using comparative ...
Bastajić Ljubomir
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Use of artificial insemination in dairy herds in Northwestern Rio-grandense, Brazil
Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2022 Background: The use of artificial insemination (AI) in dairy cattle has a direct impact on productivity through genetic improvement and, indirectly, by other technologies that allow for better expression of the genetic potential.
Heitor-José Cervo +3 more
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Agriculture, 2023 The excessive use of chemical fertilizers (OCF) is one of China’s main sources of agricultural nonpoint source pollution. It is debatable whether outsourcing service adoption (FOS) reduces OCF.
Bowei Li, Yanjun Qian, Fanbin Kong
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SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS AND FUTURE FARM SIZE PROJECTION OF BIO-FORTIFIED CASSAVA PRODUCTION IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA [PDF]
Malaysian Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, 2021 The study examined the costs and returns to bio-fortified cassava production and forecast the future farm size of bio-fortified cassava production in Oyo State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was used to select our respondents.
Kolapo Adetomiwa +4 more
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Biotechnology and Farm Size in Kenya [PDF]
, 1992 This chapter is concerned with the biotechnology applications to two important crops, potato and tea in Kenya. Potato is an important source of food for the Kenyan poor, one third of which is grown by the small holders. Kenya is the world’s fourth largest tea exporter. Tea is also the second largest foreign exchange earner for Kenya.
Mureithi LP, Makau, B. F
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Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2000 This study presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the distribution of generic advertising benefits across individual producers. We develop a closed-economy partial equilibrium model that allows for the presence of producer heterogeneity in ...
Chanjin Chung, Harry M. Kaiser
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Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2023 We examined factors that influence farm size sustenance and food consumption status of rural farm households. We used survey data comprising a sample size of 390 households.
Godwin Seyram Agbemavor Horlu +2 more
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Off-Farm Employment and Economic Crisis: Evidence from Cyprus
Agriculture, 2018 Off-farm employment is an important strategy for complementing farm household income and maintaining rural livelihoods. A multilevel logistic regression model was applied to investigate the effect of farm-level and regional-level factors on off-farm ...
Elias Giannakis +2 more
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THE ECONOMIC FARM SIZE AND SUSTAINABLE VALUE DISPARITIES BETWEEN ROMANIA AND THE EU STATES [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2016 Romania is one of the EU countries with significant agricultural potential. The economic and social changes occurring after 1990 has profoundly affected the agriculture in Romania.
BURJA CAMELIA, BURJA VASILE
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The influence of between-farm distance and farm size on the spread of classical swine fever during the 1997-1998 epidemic in The Netherlands. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 As the size of livestock farms in The Netherlands is on the increase for economic reasons, an important question is how disease introduction risks and risks of onward transmission scale with farm size (i.e. with the number of animals on the farm).
Gert Jan Boender +3 more
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