ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors wish to acknowledge input from Gary Hunt and Jonathan Rubin, who are members of David Lewis's thesis committee. In addition, David Field, Thomas Power, and especially Gary Hunt provided helpful comments on an earlier version of this bulletin. David Lewis is appreciative of financial support for his graduate studies provided by the University of Maine Graduate Assista...

the paper attempts to study the efficiency of crop production and resource use effi-ciency on temple tenants and owner farms in tirunelveli district of tamil nadu. a sam-ple of 90 temple tenants and 50 owner farmers from two taluks of tirunelveli district, nawely, shencottah and tenkasi were selected for the study. the reference period of the study was 2002-2003. the efficiency analysis with th...

Introduction Approximately 87% of the southern forests within the United States are owned by private companies (27%) and non‐industrial private forest owners (60%) (Hanson, et al., 2010). Within these southern forests, more than 61% of longleaf pine, a fire‐dependent species, is privately owned (America’s Longleaf Restoration Initiative, 2014). With such a large holding, land management decisio...

A concern in the forestry literature is the perceived difference in production behavior between industrially owned forest land and land managed by nonindustrial private forest (NIPJ?) owners (Clawson; Binkley; USDA Forest Service). For instance, in the southern United States, a large share of the region’s softwood timber production (35%) comes from the relatively small share of forested acreage...

Given the growing US population and its relatively stable supply of publicly owned forests, it seems likely that future demand for outdoor recreation will be increasingly satisfied by privately owned forests. Therefore, it becomes important to understand whether visitors to publicly and privately owned forests have different characteristics. Using data from a US household survey, we found that ...

The aim of this study was to examine factors affecting adoption of mini-tuber seed potato. Survey research design was used in this study. A sample of 100 potato growers who were informed about mini-tuber was selected and divided into adopter and non-adopter groups. Questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection and was validated by a panel of experts. A pilot study was conducted f...