Precision farming innovations are designed to improve the efficiency of agricultural activities via minimal initial input material and human resources avoiding harmful effects on environment one hand automatizing production another hand, thus providing environmental, social economic benefits. In article, tendencies in adoption precision agriculture technologies (PAT) Ukraine were observed, with...

BACKGROUND GP cooperatives are typically based in emergency primary care centres, and patients are frequently required to travel to be seen. Geography is a key determinant of access, but little is known about the extent of geographical variation in the use of out-of-hours services. AIM To examine the effects of distance and rurality on rates of out-of-hours service use. DESIGN OF STUDY Geog...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the productivity change for agricultural cooperatives in Japan measured by nonparametric outputoriented Malmquist indices of total factor productivity. The productivity change is decomposed into technical change and technical efficiency change. Linear programming techniques are used to calculate the productivity change using a panel data set for 49 agricu...

The history of forest management in the southern United States has been a process of intensification and the pine forests of the Coastal Plain can be regarded as in the early stage of crop domestication. Silviculture research into tree improvement and other aspects of plantation establishment and management has been critical to the domestication process, which began in the early 1950s with the ...

Reframing the Attitude-Behavior Debate: The Case of Meat-Abstinence in Vegetarian Student Cooperatives

This paper summarizes the history of rural communities (moshavim and kibbutzim) in Israel and attempts to rehabilitate those that have experienced difficulties. The first section of the paper outlines the context of these communities, most of which are cooperatives. Before the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, most of the communities flourished. The next section explains what happen...

While decent housing is important to every individual and nation, housing crisis remains one of the global problems and a grave and rising challenge facing both urban and rural residents, particularly in most developing countries. Thus, in spite of a number of political, social, and religious initiatives taken in the past in some of these developing countries, a great proportion of their popula...

Abstract While joining farmer cooperatives has been identified as a way for farmers, especially small to overcome their limitations in the marketplace and increase income, this paper presents an analytical framework examining how cooperative may income rural China, empirically assesses impacts of such membership on household examines affect inequality. Data from large-scale survey households Ch...

Coffee production in Kenya has plummeted, hurting the economy and worsening social inequality poverty. Kenyan coffee marketing cooperative associations have failed to boost exports. is Kenya's main cash crop. country's principal foreign exchange earner, rural employment source, food security revenue source. The reduction export earnings shows that cooperatives are inefficient less flexible. Thi...

S mall employers have particular disadvantages as purchasers of health insurance.They often are not well informed about the insurance options available to them because, unlike large employers, they do not have specialized staff to manage their employee benefit programs. Small business owners, who usually make decisions about insurance for their firms, typically have little time or expertise to ...