The green plum (Buchanania obovata), red bush apple (Syzygium suborbiculare) and wild peach (Terminalia carpentariae) all grow in remote East Arnhem Land, Australia are eaten by the Yol?u Aboriginal people who live there. These three fruits have had very little study at present western food science there is interest their use as foods or products to create sustainable Indigenous agribusinesses....

Producer Alliances and Value-Added Business Ventures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Soybean Production: Competitive Positions of the United States, Brazil, and Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Weather and Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Farmland Lease Law Update . . . . . . 12 he food industry is undergoing significant structural changes, as the industrialization of agriculture con...

This study spatially assesses, quantifies, and visualizes the agricultural expansion and land use intensification in the northwestern foothills of Mount Kenya over the last 30 years: processes triggered by population growth, and, more recently, by large-scale commercial investments. We made use of Google Earth Engine to access the USGS Landsat data archive and to generate cloud-free seasonal co...

Abstract. The form and regulation of contracts is of increasing importance to agricultural economists as farmers and agribusinesses increasing rely on contracts rather than markets to acquire inputs and sell outputs. We focus on the differences between the joint and individual surplus achievable under complete versus incomplete or relational contracts, where the latter are contracts that are no...

Tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze) is one of the major foreign exchange-earning agribusinesses in Sri Lanka, where several mobile-based extension services have emerged to deliver information tea growers. This study has focused on present status services, perception, and factors affecting usage by medium-scale A survey was conducted over telephone using a random sample 56 growers Kandy district...

Purpose Farmers in Colombia have faced economic instability due to a long-lasting armed conflict. An attempt support the rural community has been through creation of productive alliances – strategic association between small-scale producers and anchor companies with assistance private public sectors. By closely examining Association Guarupay Palm Growers (ASOPAY)'s financial cash flows, this st...

Over the past five decades, the world has unleashed enormous energy and creativity into improving the lot of the rural poor. Outside India and China, efforts have often drawn inspiration from these two leaders, initially from India and more recently from China. Following the early India model, much of this effort has targeted small rural nonfarm enterprises, on which the landless poor of the de...

Information technology can be used to make the best use of things like water, fertilizer, and pesticides in agriculture. Farmers better decisions about how their resources, reduce waste, have less an effect on environment by using sensor-based monitoring, data analysis, precision farming techniques. agricultural supply chain more open, so that consumers other stakeholders find out where product...

Agriculture in mountain areas is typically practiced on terraces. This form of farming facing significant challenges across the globe related to high production costs, land abandonment, and rural depopulation. The aim this study was explore viability prospects using wineries terraced mountains Cyprus as a case study. A semistructured questionnaire developed, 11 family were selected surveyed. fo...