Karim Saei was born in 1910, in Mashhad, north eastern Iran, where he got his diploma. He left behind his homeland for Karaj city to study at the Faculty of Agriculture of Tehran University. He passed his course very successfully and received his B.Sc. degree in 1931 followed by a scholarship to study for 2 years at Agronomic Institute in Montpellier, France. He graduated M.Sc. with excellent g...

The Directorate of Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture maintains two publication series for research on food security issues. Publications under the Flash series are short (3-4 pages), carefully focused reports designated to provide timely research results on issues of great interest. Publications under the Research Paper series are designed to provide longer, more in-depth treatment of fo...

The Directorate of Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development maintains two publication series for research on food security issues. Publications under the Flash series are short (3-4 pages), carefully focused reports designated to provide timely research results on issues of great interest. Publications under the Research Paper series are designed to provide longer, more in...

The agriculture directorate is using a modified version of the GTAP model to analyse the impact of agriculture and non-agriculture reform. This analysis is part of an overall project that analyses policy reform using a "top-down" approach that integrating a variety of modeling techniques. Global and regional analysis is carried out using general equilibrium (modified GTAP), while at the other e...

The Directorate of Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development maintains two publication series for research on food security issues. Publications under the Flash series are short (3-4 pages), carefully focused reports designated to provide timely research results on issues of great interest. Publications under the Research Paper series are designed to provide longer, more in...

The Directorate of Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development maintains two publication series for research on food security and agricultural policy issues. Publications under the Flash series are short (3-4 pages), carefully focused reports designated to provide timely research results on issues of great interest. Publications under the Research Paper series are designed to...

1. The second question suggested by the analytical framework is whether market failures will result from decreases in the prices of commodity outputs, in a context of agricultural policy reform. To answer this question, we need to know: (1) how price decreases will affect the level of production of both commodity and non-commodity outputs, and (2) what is the value of the resulting reduction in...

The Directorate of Economics of the Ministry of Agriculture maintains two publication series for research on food security issues. Publications under the Flash series are short (3-4 pages), carefully focused reports designated to provide timely research results on issues of great interest. Publications under the Research Paper series are designed to provide longer, more in-depth treatment of fo...

X.-Z. HUANG *, M. A. CHAHINE, J. G. FRYE , D. M. CASH , E. P. LESHO, D. W. CRAFT 1, L. E. LINDLER3 AND M. P. NIKOLICH 1 1 Division of Bacterial and Rickettsial Diseases, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA 2 Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit, Agriculture Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Athens, GA, USA 3 Chemical Biologic...

farmers' behavior can be affected by different socio-economic factors. the purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of interpersonal information sources on grape farmers’ behavior in terms of optimum use of fertilizers in their vineyards. the data for this survey were collected using a questionnaire through structured interviews. a sample of 260 out of 3942 grape farmers of the khora...