This paper critically analyses the recently passed “Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance Farm Services Act, 2020”. Based a systematic review of literature using keyword search strategy from Scopus, Economic Political Weekly, Google Scholar, other government-published documents, this contends farmers are likely to have less onus power in contract farming than corpora...

The objective of this study was to assess behavior patterns in Brazilian farm milk prices. We employed a structural time series techniques model, the Unobserved Component Model (UCM), which is part family State Space models, trend, seasonality, cyclical behavior, and impacts exogenous regressors on aggregated price Brazil from January 2005 December 2019. tested five alternative models with diff...

In the Savannah region of West Africa, the highly variable rainfall and poor soils have been shown to di€erentially a€ect the yield potential of various crops. The paper applies a simple risk programming model to assess the e€ects of price and yield risk on the incomes of smallholder farmers in northern region of Coà te d'Ivoire. The analysis showed that by considering price and yield risks, it...

Employing LL iobbDouglas specification for the production function and a modified iinear expenditure system, the paper presents an econometric model of household production, consumption and labor supply behaviour for a semi-commercial farm with a competitive labor market. The model, estimated from p.l,-iary, cross-sectional, Malaysian data, is used :o analyse the impact of migration, output pri...

Abstract: The agriculture industry plays a critical role in the U.S. economy and various industry sectors depend on the output of farms. A salient challenge in farming is uncertainty in the farm yield, which depends on the weather conditions (and other unpredictable factors) during the growing season and impacts farmers' profit. To protect and raise farmers' income, the U.S. government offers t...

This study analyzes characteristics determining member’s willingness to invest in cooperatives using ordered logit model. The data were collected in a field survey among 122 cooperative members in north-central China. The descriptive analysis of survey evidence suggests that cooperatives in China generally having poor ability to deliver the processing services related to product package, gradin...

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Recent globalization has been characterized by a decline in the costs of cross-border trade in farm and other products. It has been driven primarily by the information and communication technology revolution and-in the case of farm products-by reductions in governmental distortions to agricultural production, consumption and trade. Both have boosted economic growth and reduced poverty globally,...