Bambara groundnut is the main food legume after cowpea, especially in rural areas Burkina Faso. Due to inappropriate production and storage conditions, seeds are susceptible contamination by several fungi. Therefore, present study was conducted isolate identify postharvest fungi associated with produced To do this, a total of 99 seed samples were collected three agro ecological zones The sanita...

The impact of the exchange rate (ER) on trade balance (TB) has been discussed for many years. However, issue not in sufficient depth, especially relation to TB agricultural products. This paper will gauge this Australia, which much potential agro-based world market. We have applied Bahmani-Oskooee and Hosny's approach linear autoregressive distributed lag model estimate Marshall–Lerner conditio...

iran is one of the most energy-rich countries subsidizing energy carriers, especially in the agricultural sector, to the extent that the resulting growth is at the expense of the environment. this study tries to investigate the potential impacts of energy price reform on the agro-environment, based on the marginal abatement costs (macs) of emissions. firstly, the energy demand function of the a...

Socioeconomic and historical approaches can contribute to the understanding of relationship between food security, agricultural trade, armed conflicts in developing countries. While market-based perspective advocates that trade is a useful way maintain security nationally, other works suggest liberalization agro-export specialization have threatened since 1980s, especially self-sufficiency capa...

To improve Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of tobacco, factors influencing gene delivery, including genotype of the plant, bacterial strain, and Agrobacterium transformation procedure, were tested via direct somatic embryogenesis. Leaf tissue of three different tobacco genotypes (Nicotiana tabacum L. cvs. Samsun, and Xanthi, and N. benthamiana) we...

For my students I shall consider in detail distributions defined by the principal value and the finite part of divergent integrals. I shall also consider continuity properties of distributions defined by holomorphic functions.

This paper combines the GCC and Convention Theory frameworks to compare the value-chains for agro-commodities before and after the decade 1980-90. Crudely, this period was a watershed between producer-driven and buyer-driven forms of organisation. Subsequently, two types of buyer-driven chain have become differentiated: one with low entry barriers that is experiencing downgrading, and one with ...