agriculture marketing Articles
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Agricultural auction markets in Sudan: their role, market mechanisms and performance
The paper overviews the current marketing system in crop markets in Sudan; introduces the concept of crop auction markets in a Sudanese context and searches for reasons why these transaction systems are not widely adopted in its agricultural markets. The paper examines the probable role and impact of auction market systems on the market mechanisms if they are widely employed. The paper calls for ...
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The challenge of integrating EU and Turkish agricultural markets and policies
This paper addresses the potential consequences of a political and economic integration of EU and Turkish agriculture and evaluates the resulting challenges. Simulation models reveal declining agricultural prices for Turkey in the case of market integration with the EU. This would lead to less production, more consumption and Turkey becoming a net importer of agricultural products. Resulting ...
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Complexity of agricultural commodity cycle: a chaotic time series analysis
Most empirical investigations of agricultural markets have been conducted using linear models. Therefore, nonlinear dynamic patterns of the market cannot be predicted based on these models under any circumstances. Consequently, little is known about the role of nonlinear dynamics and the whether we can predict the market both for short- and long-term in agriculture. We utilise the real world data ...
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Implementing environmental quality standards via collective projects in the French CTE procedure
Since 1999, in France, a new public intervention scheme called "CTE" has been proposed to farmers. Inside this contractual scheme, economic agents may coordinate collectively to jointly attain traditional economic objectives and environmental targets through collective projects. We are interested in the reduction of transaction costs that these projects may bring to the private and public ...
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A test of agricultural labour market efficiency in the Gezira scheme, Sudan: a production function approach
This study is concerned with testing the efficiency of the rural labour market in the Gezira scheme. One hundred and fifty respondents were randomly selected through a field survey during the 2003?2004 season. A Cobb-Douglas production function was fitted to the data. The results indicated that labour markets in Gezira do not behave as predicted by the neoclassical theory. Labour allocations are ...
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New market channels for a non-food agricultural product. The development of an alternative supply chain for the bergamot citrus in Calabria, Italy
The bergamot, a typical fruit of the Italian region of Calabria, contains an essence that is a basic component for the perfume industry. In the last decades bergamot sector declined dramatically, because of the introduction of an artificial substitute of the essence and for the producers' fragmentation. After describing the evolution of the industry and of the supply-chain structure, the paper ...
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What makes organic agriculture move: protest, meaning or market? A polyocular approach to the dynamics and governance of organic agriculture
Many different actors have hopes and aspirations for the future of organic agriculture. They have different perspectives on organic agriculture with different understandings of what it is and what makes it move. Each perspective entails a certain understanding of organic agriculture featuring certain concepts and values and a particular logic or rationality. It is important to acknowledge this ...
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Environmental sustainability, sustainable livelihood and poverty reduction: the case for tribal agricultural technology
Environmental degradation is very closely associated with economic growth, which leads to the popular concept of sustainable development. The idea of sustainable development also has a component of damage to the environment, though it is minimum. However, there is one thing that has the potential of promoting development along with poverty reduction with the true spirit of the idea of ...
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Hemp: Made In America
With the passing of the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp is poised to become a multi-billion dollar mainstream commodity in the United States, boosting state economies and the revenues of farms, big and small. However, in keeping with the birthing — or, in this case, the rebirthing — of an industry fraught with regulatory challenges, it is vital that state and territorial departments of ...
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From urban-rural to global dependencies
Against the background of global urban knowledge economy, this paper discusses some of the challenges that sustainable urban life is facing in the global knowledge economy of the 21st century. The paper makes an overview of the fundamental change in urban-rural relations, urban and rural demographics, the concepts of place surplus and place attractiveness, agglomeration and the new economic ...
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Farmland Abandonment in the EU: an Assessment of Trends and Prospects
Over recent decades substantial areas of the EU have been affected by agricultural abandonment (ie. the complete withdrawal of agricultural management such that natural succession processes are able to progress). This is largely a result of declines in the viability of extensive (low input) and small-scale agriculture systems. Therefore such abandonment threatens a range of semi-natural habitats ...
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Daily price and volatility behaviour in soybean oil market
Volatility in agricultural futures markets is an important research area and has been a cause for concern among governments, traders, producers, and consumers. The purpose of this article is to investigate the financial and currency sources of price and volatility distortion of soybean oil future prices, using a GJR-GARCH model. The crucial element of the study is the inclusion of currency, ...
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Does skip-row planting configuration improve cotton net return?
Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) growers want information about alternative planting configurations to reduce seed, technology, and other production costs. We evaluated the impact of solid and 2 x 1 skip-row configurations on net returns for cotton grown in 25-, 76-, and 102-cm rows based on yield and fiber quality data from an experiment in adjacent nonirrigated and irrigated fields at Milan, TN. ...
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Values of organic producers converting at different times: results of a focus group study in five European countries
This paper presents the results of a focus group study of the values of organic producers entering the sector at different times in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Switzerland. As well as expressing values widely associated with organic farming, such as food quality, health and environmental protection, they also mentioned professional challenge, fairness in the food chain, and ...
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Walnut Oil Press Machine
Introduction to the walnut oil extraction machine Walnut oil extraction machine presses the walnut with a screw oil press. walnut oil press equipment can automatically control the temperature. With intelligent equipment, it can press in all seasons. The production will not be delayed. According to the different requirements of oil, the temperature of the crude oil is automatically adjusted, which ...
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Walnut Oil Press Machine
We have walnut oil press for sale!Introduction to the walnut oil extraction machineWalnut oil extraction machine presses the walnut with a screw oil press. walnut oil press equipment can automatically control the temperature. With intelligent equipment, it can press in all seasons. The production will not be delayed. According to the different requirements of oil, the temperature of the crude oil ...
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Tunisia: Reform of irrigation policy and water conservation
An arid country with limited water resources, Tunisia depends heavily on irrigated agriculture. The sector contributes 30-40% of the value of agricultural production, and is highly important in some regions. However, abstraction for irrigation accounts for 83% of the available water resources, competing with other uses. To conserve water resources and encourage demand management in the irrigation ...
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FIFRA: What`s New, What`s Hot (PDF)
For Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) practitioners, the current state of play at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the change in Senate leadership, and the dynamics in the agricultural and antimicrobial chemicals market place, make work anything but dull. This article identifies key FIFRA issues, largely brought about by EPA’s continuing efforts ...
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So what is the role of commodity programs? Can they even be justified?
No matter what our area of daily activity, it is natural and even necessary that we myopically focus on the problems and issues of the day. But it is also important to step back once in a while to consider how the situations of today fit into a longer-term context. Along that line, we are in the midst of a series of columns that goes beyond the agricultural issues and policy motivations of ...
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Walnut Oil Press Machine
Introduction to the walnut oil extraction machine Walnut oil extraction machine presses the walnut with a screw oil press. walnut oil press equipment can automatically control the temperature. With intelligent equipment, it can press in all seasons. The production will not be delayed. According to the different requirements of oil, the temperature of the crude oil is automatically adjusted, which ...
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