In India, expenditure on electricity subsidies for agriculture, an input subsidy aimed at improving agricultural productivity and the incomes of the agricultural work force, exceeds that spent on health or education. Yet the benefits and beneficiaries of these policies have been unexplored. This paper develops and empirically tests a model that describes the channels through which these subsidi...

In the next decade, India is likely to witness changes in its cotton and textile sectors as many of the constraints on production, marketing, and trade of cotton and textile products are set to be eliminated. Some of the internal constraints include export constraints on yarn, government fixing of cotton ginning and pressing fees, and subsidization of raw cotton production. Similarly, one of th...

Apricot (Prunus armeniaca) was a thriving tree crop in California during the first half of the 20th century, with nearly 100,000 A under production at its peak in 1926 Foytik [1]. Since that time, production acreage has declined steadily to its current level of approximately 10,000 A. Harvested apricot volume in California has averaged just over 54,000 T annually over the last three reported ye...

Barley was brought to California by the Spanish padres via Mexico and was cultivated on mission lands since at least 1771 [7] . Until 1860, when it was surpassed by wheat, barley was the most important grain grown by the early American settlers in California [1] . It was the principle feed grain for livestock, and malting barley was also the basis for an early California export trade with Great...

This article analyzes the dynamic effects of the farm subsidies in the United States. The subsidies a farmer receives are based upon historical plantings, also called base acreage. It is sometimes optimal for a farmer temporarily not to participate in a program in order to increase future subsidies. The farmer's optimal policy is the solution to a deterministic dynamic program. Farmers with low...

the aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting timely repayment of agricultural loans in fars province. the necessary data was obtained from agricultural bank as well as through 163 questionnaires, filled out in fars-province. the farmers were divided in to timely repayment and defaulter groups while standard tobit model being used for the study. the dependent variable in this m...

portrayed by some environmental groups as an enemy of our ecosystem. I am here today, as a representative of the agri-business industry, to address concerns of agricultural biotechnology and its impact on the environment, particularly the concerns surrounding the environmental impact of gene escape from transgenic plants to wild plants and the development of resistance by pests to genetically a...

U.S. Rep. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, has introduced a leading contender in the 1995 farm bill debate. Under the Freedom to Farm Act (FFA), farmers who have participated in farm programs during three of the past five years would be eligible to enter into a sevenyear contract with the federal government. Through these contracts, farmers would receive an ...