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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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

Fruit set and oil palm bunch components

open access: yes, 2002
Hand pollination was carried out using different amounts of pollen to produce different levels of fruit set in fruit bunches of 12-year-old DxP oil palms planted at Bangi, Selangor. Seventy ripe bunches were sampled and their fruit set ascertained.
Husna Zayadi
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pollination and Fruit Set of Fruit Crops

open access: yes, 2006
This information bulletin describes the single most critical process in the production of a fruit crop. Outlines cultural practices favoring good fruit set; summarizes pollination requirements of apples and other tree fruits such as pears, peaches ...
Way, Roger D.
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Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A feedback loop at the THERMOSENSITIVE PARTHENOCARPY 4 locus controls tomato fruit set under heat stress. [PDF]

open access: yesNat Commun
Lu X   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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