This paper provides an economic assessment of the value of using genetically modified (GM) crop technology in agriculture at the farm level. It follows and updates earlier annual studies which examined economic impacts on yields, key costs of production, direct farm income and effects, and impacts on the production base of the 4 main crops of soybeans, corn, cotton and canola. The commercialisa...

This paper analyses the relationship between net farm incomes and market values of cane land within the South African sugar industry. A comparison is drawn between market values represented by actual sales, and productive land values, which relate more specifically to net farm incomes. The aim of the paper is therefore to estimate the degree of correlation between net farm incomes and land mark...

Death statutes in the United States list elements of loss for which a defendent must make compensatory payment. The element that economists as expert witnesses are called upon to calculate is net income, roughly deÞned as the decedent’s income minus personal expenses. The existence of joint or shared consumption goods complicates the deÞnition and calculation of net income. Net income can be in...

The aim of this research was to determine a sustainable economic model milk farm in Bosnia and Herzegovina through the possibility reorientation raw production into cheese on-farm processing. All investment costs, annual quantities, prices income were collected an unstructured questionnaire. case study farm, originally engaged production, reoriented itself processing several products. A cost–be...

In many European states such as Spain and Italy there has been a significant growth of organic utilizable surface as a consequence of both a change in the model of agricultural production and also in order to satisfy arising demand of organic food. The purpose of this research was to investigate the level of technical, allocative and economic efficiency in Italian olive farms with two different...

Using a two-year panel of 1,422 Kenyan households surveyed in 1997 and 2000, we measure how prime-age adult mortality affects rural households' size and composition, agricultural production, asset levels, and off-farm income. First, the paper uses adult mortality rates from available data on an HIV-negative sample from neighboring Tanzania to predict the number of deaths that might have been ex...

The objective of this paper is to present an empirical measure of economic welfare, hereafter called "economic position," which integrates, current money income and current net worth. We apply the resulting measure illustratively, comparing some of its results with those of the income measure. Subsequently, some of the implications of our measure are explored. The proposed measure rests on the ...

Indian Agriculture is undergoing a gradual shift from dependence on human power and animal to mechanical power. Mechanical largely consumed in big land holdings asunder their economic condition, the small marginal farmers are unable own farm machinery own. Andhra Pradesh State typically an agrarian with 80.96 lakh ha of net sown area has about 65.39 operational 34.35 holdings. Some initial prob...