Do High Food Marketing Costs Constrain Cash Crop Production? Evidence from Zimbabwe

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. S. Jayne
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Food Marketing ◽  
High Food ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Marketing Costs

scholarly journals Sustainable intensification pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa: Assessing eco-efficiency of smallholder perennial cash crop production

2022 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 103304
Author(s):  
Anja Heidenreich ◽  
Christian Grovermann ◽  
Irene Kadzere ◽  
Irene S. Egyir ◽  
Anne Muriuki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Sustainable Intensification ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Sub Saharan

scholarly journals Opportunities of groundnut cultivation and marketing system in char lands of Bangladesh

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-711
Author(s):  
MS Hoq ◽  
QMS Islam ◽  
S Khandoker ◽  
MA Matin
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Rabi Season ◽  
Marketing System ◽  
Wheat Cultivation ◽  
Cultivable Land ◽  
Marketing Costs ◽  
Marketing Chain ◽  
Relative Profitability ◽  
Storage Facilities ◽  
Marketing Problems

Bangladesh has vast char area but most of the char lands are not suitable for crop production. So the present study was undertaken to examine the suitability of crop production by assessing adoption, relative profitability, marketing system, production and marketing problems of rabi season groundnut in char lands of Faridpur, Jamalpur, and Kishoreganj districts during 2013-2014. The sample size of the study was 225 including 90 groundnut farmers and 135 traders. The study revealed that the highest (56%) percent of groundnut farmers cultivated Dhaka-1 variety and only 23% of all farmers cultivated BARI chinabadam-8.The per hectare production cost of groundnut was Tk 61,547, net return was Tk.42,033 and BCR was 1.68. The partial budgeting analysis showed that if the farmers cultivated groundnut instead of its competitive crops, they would receive Tk. 24,445 additional to sesame and Tk.21,990 additional to wheat cultivation. The average estimated marketing costs was highest (Tk.1388/quintal) for Stockist and lowest (Tk.55/quintal) for Arathdar. Net marketing margin was also highest (Tk.1212/quintal) for Stockist and lowest (Tk.59/quintal) for Arathdar. Marketing chain-v was the most efficient than other five chains because it has single involvement of intermediary. The major problems identified by farmers were lack of irrigation facilities (34%), low rate of seed germination (31%), and lack of cultivable land (29%). Major marketing problems were lack of cash capital (82%), and lack of storage facilities (55%) etc. Arrangement of institutional credit with low interest rate (80%), collateral free credit (45%), and arrangement of storage facilities (72%) were the trader’s opinion to minimize the marketing problems of groundnut. Therefore the study will be helpful to increase groundnut cultivation and improved the marketing system in char lands of Bangladesh.Bangladesh J. Agril. Res. 41(4): 695-711, December 2016

Agricultural Productivity and Urbanization: Evidence from Grain and Tobacco Production Efficiency in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 5172-5183
Author(s):  
Ma Jing ◽  
Li Qing
Keyword(s):  
Technological Progress ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Grain Production ◽  
Standard Deviation Increase ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Tobacco Production ◽  
Urbanization Rate ◽  
The Impact

This paperbased on grain production efficiency and tobacco production efficiency studies the impact of agricultural productivity on urbanization in open economy. Theoretically, a theoretical model allowing biased technological progress is constructed. The research finds that when technological progress is labor-saving technological progress, the improvement of agricultural productivity can significantly improve the level of urbanization. Empirically, using The Panel data of Chinese cities from 2000 to 2014, the empirical study finds that The improvement of grain production efficiency and the improvement of tobacco as a cash crop production efficiency will significantly improve the urbanization rate, and each standard deviation increase of agricultural productivity will increase the urbanization rate by about 4-9.6 percentage points, or about 12-30%. The above findings are robust and hold even after using instrumental variables and introducing more control variables. The research of this paper shows that the improvement of staple grain production efficiency and cash crop production efficiency can effectively improve the level of urbanization in China. Under the new normal of the economy, implementing the rural revitalization strategy and continuing to improve the efficiency of agricultural production is conducive to further improving the urbanization rate and boosting high-quality economic development.

Entrepôts in a Changing Empire

2020 ◽  
pp. 131-169
Author(s):  
Laurie M. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Sugar Production ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Ancien Régime

Chapter 4 explores the regional situations of Atlantic and Indian Ocean courts, respectively. Within these lively and increasingly interconnected oceanic systems, the Antilles initially gained prominence for their sugar production, and the Mascarenes formed what one traveler called “the arsenal of our forces and the entrepôt of our commerce.” These transformations, however, prompted the migration of court users, from sailors to traders, to legal entrepôts. A unique convergence of colonial expertise, especially regarding cash-crop production and trade, and military skills, regarding colonial defense and imperial objectives, enabled the courts to remain, and grow, as entrepôts at the center of a global ancien régime empire.

Performance and Environmental Sustainability of Cash Crop Production in Pampas Region, Argentina

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria C. Rótolo ◽  
Sergio Montico ◽  
Charles A. Francis ◽  
Sergio Ulgiati
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Pampas Region
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