Regional Economic Development through Direct Sales Stores for Farm Products

Direct-to-Consumer Sales of Farm Products: Producers and Supply Chains in the Southeast

Given the geography and agroclimatic conditions of the Southeast, coupled with continued population expansion from in-migration, local foods markets may be a promising niche market for some farms in the region. The Southeast has more small farms than any other U.S. region. Using farm-level data, we address the question of how successful southeastern farms engaged in direct sales to consumers di...

Predicting Sales for Rossmann Drug Stores

In this paper we examined four different methods for time series forecasting: Random Forests, Gradient Boosting, Hidden Markov Models, and Recurrent Neural Networks. We found that using Gradient Boosting yielded the best results with root-mean-square percent error (RMPSE) of 10.439% (785 of 3429).

Lopsided Regional Economic Development

China has performed under its new inter-governmental Fiscal System (so called “tax-sharing system”) for about seven years since 1994. The main contents of the system are the reallocation of governmental responsibilities and sharing of taxes between the central and provincial level. Theoretically, one of the main purposes is to realize equalization of public service all over the country. In fact...

The significance of fishery production for economic development: Example of EcemişTrout Farm of Niğde province

With the concerns about healthy and balanced diet in our country and in the world, the interest in fishery products is constantly increasing. Fishery products are the sources of good quality protein, vitamins and minerals. They are also rich in calcium and phosphorus. All the nutritional properties of fishery products.are the real reason why they are more preffered. One of these fishery product...

Producer and farm characteristics, type of product, location: determinants of on-farm and off-farm direct sales by farmers