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The lone remaining shareholder in a pedigreed seed company formed by a group of independent grain handling companies in Western Canada is selling that business to another Prairie seed firm. Canterra Seeds announced May 1 it has acquired Alliance Seed for an undisclosed amount, and will continue to...
Yx= yield of the crop (t ha−1Year−1) (for rice,Yx= grain yield + grain equivalent straw yield),Px= price of the crop (BDT t−1), andPr= price ofamanrice (BDT t−1). In this calculation, rice price for each household was used to estimate rice equivalent yield, as sell...
instruments were tailored towards understanding the actions of key actor groups,inter alia: government personnel, farming communities, private sector seed companies and agro-dealers, women’s groups, seed/grain market traders, agricultural product
5. NATURE OF CONTRACT FARMING MODELS/SCHEMES 6. CONTRACT FARMING OBJECTIVES AND PROVISIONS 7. ASSESSMENT OF FACTORS THAT IMPACT ON THE VIABILITY OF CONTRACT FARMING 8. HOW TO MAKE CONTRACT FARMING WORK 8.1. Lessons to Improve Contract Farming 9. WOMEN’S ACCESS TO CONTRACT FARMING CONCLUSION REC...
The relative importance of these two factors in Illinois cash grain farmers' machinery investment decisions is studied in an experimental setting.; Operators of seven commercial farms in central Illinois with differing tenure, leverage and machinery complement age characteristics participated. Financial ...