Background: The presence of weeds in cowpea reduced the yield to tune 60-82% depending on weed flora and density. critical period competition was 20-25 DAS. Therefore it is essential control effectively harness maximum potential crop. To manage also important determine efficacy pre post-emergence herbicides. Sequential application herbicides a short duration crop not only increases cost product...

This paper originates the theory of buyer concentration for a main raw material input for a single processing industry. The Oligopsony concentration is obtained and subsequently decomposed into several factors, affecting indirectly the industry’s profitability. It is found that the leading firms’ efficiencies hypothesis is reaffirmed due to variations associated with the marginal productivity d...

The field experiments were conducted during 2017-19 at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. main aim of study was to find out a suitable cropping system that can replace existing rice-wheat realize higher productivity and profitability. Four systems, viz. rice (Oryza sativa L.) - mustard (Brassica juncea mungbean (Vigna radiata L.), maize (Zea mays mustard-mungbean...

Admirable as it is, the drug discovery and development process is continuously undergoing changes and adjustments in search of further improvements in efficiency, productivity, and profitability. Recent trends in academic-industrial partnerships promise to provide new opportunities for advancements of this process through transdisciplinary collaborations along the entire spectrum of activities ...

Using contemporary data for an extensive sample of 1020 Indian firms, this paper investigates the impacts that size and age of firms have on firm-level productivity and profitability. In India older firms are found to be more productive and less profitable, whereas the larger firms are, conversely, found to be more profitable and less productive. These performance differences are explained as a...

*This paper is the result of work being undertaken as part of a collaborative research program entitled The Performance of Australian Enterprises: Innovation, Productivity and Profitability. The project is generously supported by the Australian Research Council and the following collaborative partners: Australia Tax Office, Commonwealth Office of Small Business, IBIS Business Information Pty Lt...