Agricultural Costs in UK Law
- Recurrent costs and agricultural development. Edited by J. Howell Overseas Development Institute, 1985, 223 pp.
- Book Reviews : The Costs of the Common Agricultural Policy, Allan E. Buckwell, David R. Harvey, Kenneth J. Thomson and Kevin A. Parton, Croom Helm, 1982, £12.95
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Norwegian Political Economy and European Integration
The typical farmer in Norway receives more support from the state than the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) provides to the average farmer in the European Union (EU). The sheltered agricultural sec...
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Performance of National Agricultural Advisory Services projects in Uganda. Does stakeholder commitment matter?
Purpose: The increased poor performance of National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) projects in Uganda has become a concern of many stakeholders. Many NAADS projects have been undertaken wit......... out of poverty.One of the reasons is that they don’t see themselves ac hievingany benefits from these projects, the projects require high costs of agricultu ral extension serviceswhich cannot be afforded by the farmers and also because the poor people lack farmer groups toparticipate in the ......
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Risk, insurance and small farm credit in developing countries: A policy proposal
Lending to small farmers is often too risky for commercial banks; consequently extremely high interest rates have to be paid. Agricultural development banks go some way towards solving the problem.......... Agricultural development banks go some way towards solving the problem. ... The risks and associated costs are quantified for one particular case: the Small Farmer ......
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Financing smallholder production: A comparison of individual and group credit schemes in Zimbabwe
Credit programmes aimed at individual smallholders in Africa have had disappointing results, particularly with regard to loan repayment. This article enquires whether group lending under terms of j......... for small farmers if they belong to voluntary agricultural associations; (b) loans issued on terms of joint liability e lower administrative costs; (c) most importantly, joint liability arrangements lead to ......
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A SINGLE COMPUTER‐BASED SYSTEM FOR BOTH CURRENT AWARENESS AND RETROSPECTIVE SEARCH: OPERATING EXPERIENCE WITH ASSASSIN
ASSASSIN as designed and operated by ICI Agricultural Division, provides from, a single paper tape input a current awareness service by SDI and a retrospective search both by a weighted term machin.........R. CLOUGH and K. M. BRAMWELL* Agricultural Division, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, Billingham, Teesside ...Machine costs are given for the major application. The system was designed with the ......
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Agricultural practices in a drought-prone region of India: opportunities for S&T innovations
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess the agricultural practices in a drought-prone region of India in an effort to find out how science, technology and innovation (STI) measures can addr.........Adoption of modern agricultural practices and use oftechnology is inadequate which is further hampered by ignorance of such practices, high costs andimpracticality in the case of small land holdings.Originality/value –This paper has advocated for well-organised, efficient and result-oriented ......
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A model for assessing the impact of cloud computing on the success of customer relationship management systems (case study: agricultural companies)
Purpose: Nowadays, communications, products, services and costs are customized through the internet technology. The main theory to continue competitiveness in the organizations is customer relation......... Lesani, Mahdi Ghasvari, Lila Rajabion, Mehdi Darbandi andAlireza HassaniAbstractPurpose –Nowadays, communications, products, services and costs are customized through theinternet technology. The main theory to continue competitiveness in the organizations is customerrelationship management ......
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An analysis of the opportunities for information technology in improving access, transfer and the use of agricultural information in the rural areas of Kenya
Presented at the SCANUL‐ECS Conference held in Kenya 23‐26 July 1998. Examines the opportunities of information technology (IT) in improving access, transfer and use of agricultural information in ........., fast and inexpensivecommunication channels, links between different media,easy and enjoyable use at comparatively and steadilydeclining costs. Concludes that for IT to have more impacton rural development, it should be needs driven, ratherthan technology driven. This can only be achieved if ......
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