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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines producer participation choices considering a variety of potential benefits linked to state‐sponsored marketing programs, using a real choice dataset of farmers in Missouri. Multinomial logit models are employed to predict determinants of farmer enrollment in three tiers of the Missouri Grown local food marketing program ...
Lan Tran, Ye Su, Laura McCann
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Inventory of Superior Durian from the Highlands and Lowlands in Fakfak Regency
Jurnal Ilmu Pertanian IndonesiaThe purpose of this study is to catalog exceptional durians from both the highlands and the lowlands of Fakfak Regency in West Papua Province. The inventory included both highland and lowland durian accessions.
Inna Martha Rumainum +4 more
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Conservation of Olfactory Avoidance in Drosophila Species and Identification of Repellents for Drosophila suzukii. [PDF]
, 2015 Flying insects use olfaction to navigate towards fruits in complex odor environments with remarkable accuracy. Some fruits change odor profiles substantially during ripening and related species can prefer different stages.
Krause Pham, Christine +1 more
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Fruit Powder as Natural Preservatives for Raw Chevon
International Journal of Bio-Resource and Stress Management, 2019 Meat has high moisture content and is a rich source nutrients, making it vulnerable to spoilage. Meat preservation is largely based on chemical preservatives but prolonged intake of such chemicals may be hazardous to human health. This study focuses on
G. Mahapatra, S. Biswas
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UMYU Journal of Microbiology ResearchFruit peels represent an abundant, low-cost and nutrient-rich agricultural residue with potential applications in microbiological media formulation. This study evaluated the growth performance of bacterial isolates on culture media formulated from banana,
Zainab Salisu Na'inna +3 more
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Parameters for apple quality - 2 - and the development of the ‘inner quality concept’ 2001-2003 [PDF]
, 2004 We found clear correlations between management measures, tree characteristics and fruit characteristics. This means that growers can regulate apple quality during the growing season.
Bloksma, Joke +4 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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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
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FP-tree and COFI Based Approach for Mining of Multiple Level Association Rules in Large Databases
, 2010 In recent years, discovery of association rules among itemsets in a large database has been described as an important database-mining problem. The problem of discovering association rules has received considerable research attention and several ...
Kumar, Parveen +2 more
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