The impact of crop insurance on changes in input use has attracted much attention by economists. While there are a number of studies on this topic, they frame moral hazard in inputs use in a static model. However, when agricultural producers are forward-looking, they would make input ...
Its most decisive phase has been associated with Mahatma Gandhi, who in today’s India is commonly referred to as “the father of the nation.” Gandhi spent 21 years in South Africa, where he developed his political views, ethics, and political leadership skills. He was a prominent leader ...
At the camp, the Hoboken, N.J.–born Lange spotted Frances Owens Thompson and knew she was in the right place. “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother in the sparse lean-to tent, as if drawn by a magnet,” Lange later wrote. The farm’s crop had frozen, and there ...
Sri Lanka has the second-largest population of wild elephants in South Asia (Menon and Tiwari 2019). When the estimated elephant population is divided by the land area, India had an elephant density of 0.0008 per km2, while Sri Lanka had a density of 0.088 per km2 in 2008 (Perera and ...
in farming led the General Assembly to enact a farm preservation program to stop the decline. Today, Connecticut leads New England in the production of eggs, pears, peaches, and mushrooms, and its oyster crop is the nation's second largest. Poultry and dairy products also account for a ...
PhosAgro is a Russian vertically-integrated company that holds one of the leading positions in the world in terms of production of phosphorus-containing mineral fertilizers and high-grade apatite concentrate with a P2O5 content of 39% or more.
In 2020, health care in Indiana saw a rate of 10.1% of Virginians without insurance. Insurance provided by a public health office (such as Medicaid/Medicare) was at 26.4%. Income The median household income in 2021 was $80,615 with 10.2% of the population living in poverty. ...
We see millions of people with no health insurance in the midst of a pandemic (up to 27 million losing employer-based insurance, with about 6 million of those people expected to be ineligible for subsidized backup insurance). The horseman’s demeanor evinces stone-like indifference and ...
Maryland has an area of 12,193 square miles, making it the eighth-smallest state in terms of size. However, with a population of 6,164,660 (as of 2022), it ranks as the 18th-most populous state. Annapolis serves as the state capital, while Baltimore City is the largest city in the...
While earlier sources of lichen may have been the islands of the Atlantic such as the Azores, the Canary Islands or Cape Verde, nineteenth century prospecting for the voracious European trade extended across continents, to India, Ceylon, South America, Africa and as far as West and East Timor...