Due to the tireless efforts of millions rural milk producers throughout nation, India has become world's largest producer today. is greatest milk-producing nation in world, accounting for 15% global output. Dharmapuri a key role anticipated production. The five Milk Producers Co-operative Societies district provided majority data this study. and Union are used gather secondary data. A lot libra...

with respect to the role and status of cooperatives in harvesting, market supply and eventually the development and improvement of income and status level of farmers, the performance of such cooperatives have to be screened .and surveyed. the major aim of this article is the estimation of success and achievement level of such cooperatives as regard to marketing agricultural products, and diagno...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric outputoriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity. The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change. Linear programming techniques are used to calculate the productivity change using a panel data set for 49 agricu...

The history of forest management in the southern United States has been a process of intensification and the pine forests of the Coastal Plain can be regarded as in the early stage of crop domestication. Silviculture research into tree improvement and other aspects of plantation establishment and management has been critical to the domestication process, which began in the early 1950s with the ...

Reframing the Attitude-Behavior Debate: The Case of Meat-Abstinence in Vegetarian Student Cooperatives

S mall employers have particular disadvantages as purchasers of health insurance.They often are not well informed about the insurance options available to them because, unlike large employers, they do not have specialized staff to manage their employee benefit programs. Small business owners, who usually make decisions about insurance for their firms, typically have little time or expertise to ...

Literature on non-traditional firms has focused on behavioral differences with for-profit firms. Less attention has been given to the variations in behavior among non-traditional firms. This paper examines differences across three types of Uruguayan non-profit health care organizations. This paper draws on a unique dataset of Uruguayan health care organizations during the period 1982-1990, as w...

BACKGROUND In the Netherlands, primary out-of-hours (OOH) care is provided by large scale General Practitioner (GP) cooperatives. GP cooperatives can be contacted by patients living in the area surrounding the GP cooperative (catchment area) at hours when the patient's own general practice is closed. The frequency of primary OOH care use substantially differs between GP cooperative catchment ar...

Ecosystems can undergo sudden shifts to undesirable states, but recent studies with simple single-species ecosystems have demonstrated that advance warning can be provided by the slowing down of population dynamics near a tipping point. However, it is unclear how this 'critical slowing down' will manifest in ecosystems with strong interactions between their components. Here we probe the dynamic...