land is one of the most important effective factors in production in agricultural sector. existence of small owners units due to the lack of effective use of technology, machinery and agricultural production tools are restricting factors for profiting and yielding in agricultural sector. the purpose of this study was prioritizing the preventive factors of extension of land consolidation plan in...

Access to agricultural markets and marketing information are essential factors in promoting competitive markets and improving agricultural sector development. The agricultural sector employs majorities in developing countries and it contributes greatly to the development of these countries. Unluckily, majorities of the farmers are smallholders living in isolated rural areas and thus lack approp...

Similarly, at the beginning of NAFGEN, the Canadian hemp industry was in its 10 year of commercial growth and had developed into a $20 million dollar industry. Most of the commercial growth to date had been driven by the vigorous seed sector, fuelled by demand in the health food and body care products sector. NAFGEN’s vision included laying the ground work for establishing value-added hemp fibr...

One of the obstacles that has caused agricultural sector not to reach significant and expected growth is shortage of short, medium and long–term funds to finance various activities of this sector. This study aims at investigating the economic impacts of credits granted by Agricultural bank on farmers on Hirmand region. The statistical population of the survey included 4691 farmers of Hirmand re...

There is convergence of opinion that stimulating broad-based economic growth from productive-sector activity is a priority in the next phase of Vanuatu’s development. A recent study commissioned jointly by AusAID and NZAID examined some of the issues and options in supporting this objective. While the report (Bazeley and Mullen 2006) also discusses theoretical aspects of achieving equitable gro...

Economic theories show that the direction and magnitude of the fluctuations of economic variables depend on the type and magnitude of the shocks they are faced with. Various reasons are noted for fluctuations in demands for imports, including productivity shocks. Accordingly, this research was aimed at identifying the effects of Total Factor Productivity (TFP) shocks of the agricultural sector ...

Two previous CTAHR Economic Issues publications, EI-3 (Agriculture’s Contribution to Hawaii’s Economy—An Update) and EI-4 (The Linkages of Agri­ culture to Hawaii’s Economy) have examined agricul­ tural industries’ economic contribution and their link­ ages to the rest of Hawaii’s economy (see Notes, p. 11). The present publication examines the growth and sta­ bility of agricultural production ...