У статті розроблено модель визначення доцільності придбання сільськогосподарськими виробниками основних видів технічних засобів. Застосування розробленої моделі дасть можливість сільгоспвиробникам розрахувати доцільність засобів у залежності від площі сільськогосподарських угідь, результаті чого аграрії зможуть обрати економічно доцільніший варіант між придбанням або використання виробничій дія...

iranian farmers are faced with many challenges. they must be economically efficient, produce enough food for the growing population and must be sensitive to environmental concerns. however, there is a growing concern related to the aftermath and side-effect of some agricultural activities on environment. these concerns made researches to consider agricultural activities with profound care in or...

Producers’ risk perceptions, as well as their empirical measurement, have been an ongoing concern for agricultural economists. Identification and categorization of producers’ risk attitudes is important in both research and extension contexts. This study explores some alternative measures of farmers’ attitudes and their relationships with observed producer behavior. The effect of farmers’ perso...

Yield monitors are a recent development in agricultural machinery that allow grain producers to assess the effects of weather, soil properties, and management on grain production. They are a logical first step for those who want to begin practicing sitespecific crop management or “precision agriculture.” The accuracy of these devices depends on appropriate installation, calibration, and operati...

The paper discusses trends in ownership concentration in three principal stages of the food system: food retailing, food manufacturing, and selected inputs purchased by agricultural producers and by food processors. In each of these levels, the available information from North America, Western Europe, or global sources shows that sales concentration is increasing. An attempt is then made to ass...

The efficacy of commodity checkoff programs, especially the effects of generic advertising programs, on producers' welfare has received much attention by agricultural economists , commodity groups, and legal observers. At the center of the debate has been the question of whether producers are better off under a voluntary or mandatory checkoff program. Allocation of checkoff funds for generic ad...

The Agricultural Reform Implementation Programme (ARIP), which was adopted under the aegis of a World Bank-financed Structural Adjustment Programme between 2001-2008, aimed to ‘lock in’ the neoliberal hegemony that had been developing in Turkey since the early 1980s by transforming the nation’s agrarian political economy. For hazelnut-producing petty peasant groups of the Black Sea Region, this...