The recent empirical literature on economic sustainability of certified export crops shows that certification standards that enhance yields are important for improving farm revenues and farmer welfare. However, limited evidence exists on the impact of organic certification on the adoption of agro-ecological practices. In this study, we use unique farm-level data from Ghana to examine the impact...

Agile processes can be applied to any software process for effective response to changing requirements during the development process and effective communication among stakeholders. There is lack of surveys related to agile processes in large web development enterprises in the world and the current state of adoption of agile processes by large enterprises is still unknown. A survey has been con...

Green Revolution triggered in India with the introduction of high yielding varieties of crops particularly wheat and rice in seventies. The cultivators rapidly adopted these varieties in states like Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh in North India, which produced high yields by greatly responding to modern inputs, generation of suitable crop production and protection technologies and fa...

Microbial production of antimicrobials as biopreservatives is the major area of focus nowadays due to increased interest of consumers towards natural and safe preservation of ready to eat food products. The agro-industrial byproduct based medium and optimized process conditions can contribute in economical production of bacteriocins. Keeping this in view, the present investigation was carried o...

According to EC regulations the deliberate release of genetically modified (GM) crops into the agro-environment needs to be accompanied by environmental monitoring to detect potential adverse effects, e.g. unacceptable levels of gene flow from GM to non-GM crops, or adverse effects on single species or species groups thus reducing biodiversity. There is, however, considerable scientific and pub...

Introduction. The article examines the transformation of agricultural industry in Russia during transition to a market economy. essence reforms consisted comprehensive change entire system agrarian relations, including land ownership and other means production, systems farming economic management, intersectoral territorial structure agro-industrial etc. Results Discussion. In order form new org...

This article is aimed at improving the processes of evaluation by enterprises agro-industrial complex planned decisions on acquisitions and mergers. The work based analysis integration problems, known approaches to their solution, development conceptual framework for evaluating these transactions. offers a method developed authors assess effectiveness merger processes. proposed mergers basis as...

Sugarcane sector has a strong impact as a wealth generator for Brazil. Several authors discuss the importance of quantifying an agro-industrial system. This article aims to analyze the development of the Brazilian sugarcane sector over the past five years and to assess whether the method of mapping and quantification of agribusiness systems (GESis) is a useful tool for analyzing the economic de...