Recursos Tagged: Economic Aspects

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  1. Overview of the Fisheries Sector in Zambia – ZAS

    This paper reviews the Economic Management of Fisheries Sector in Zambia. Zambia is a lowermiddle-income landlocked country located in Southern Africa. It has a total land size of 752,614 Km2 of which 60% of is considered suitable for Agriculture Production but only about 15% of arable land is...
    Fisheries Fisheries Management ZAS Zambia Economic Resources Economic Aspects Downloads

  2. Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known Plants of the Andes With Promise for Worldwide Cultivation

    Key Resource 01/01/1989 This fascinating, readable volume is filled with enticing, detailed information about more than 30 different Incan crops that promise to follow the potato's lead and become important contributors to the world's food supply. Some of these overlooked foods offer special advantages for developing...
    Agricultural Econo... Food Crops agriculture Downloads Economic Aspects Indigenous Foods

  3. On-farm Animal Research/Extension and Its Economic Analysis

    01/01/1987 Proceedings -Jan. 19-23, 1987, Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture, Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines. This paper reports on a conference held on the Philippines in 1987 where they discussed methods for on-farm animal -research trials and the economic...
    Livestock Research Agricultural Research Economic Aspects Tropical Agriculture

  4. Certification Costs and Managerial Skills Under Different Organic Certification Schemes: Selected Case Studies

    This study analyses the costs and benefits of organic growers' group certification at two levels: the farmers' organization and the farmer. Case studies were chosen based on criteria that included undertaking organic certification with an internal control system and exporting organic rice to...
    Organic Farming Organic Farm Certi... Case Studies Economic Aspects

  5. Adlay or Job's Tears: A Cereal of Potentially Greater Economic Importance

    01/01/1952 This article is reprinted from Economic Botany. Adlay or Job's tearsis a cereal grain that been around as a cultivated crop for thousands of years, is considered more wholesome than either wheat or rice, isused as a staple for humans, forage, silage, compost, ornamental and has important...
    Job's Tears Cereal Products Adlay Economic Aspects Underutilized Reso... Underutilized Crops Grain Crops

  6. An Economic Evaluation of the TPI Process for the Production of Lightweight Concrete Building Blocks Utilizing Rice-Husks as the Aggregate

    01/01/1970 This study was undertaken primarily to determine whether the manufacture of lightweight concrete bricks, on a small scale and using rice husks as an aggregate, is economic. Technical details of the process are not included in this report which is restricted primarily to the costing of a...
    Rice Hulls Rice Rice Production Economic Aspects Building Brick Brickmaking Concrete

  7. Vegetable Production in Tanzania: a Four Village Case Study in Arumeru District

    01/01/1991 This publication reports on a study that collected data from a selection of vegetable growers in four villages in Arumeru District. The research focused on the interactions of land, labor and capital as these enable or inhibit vegetable production in Arumeru District.
    Vegetables Tanzania Arumeru District Economic Aspects

  8. Agricultural biotechnology: the next "green revolution"?

    01/01/1991 This technical report is based on a series of commissioned papers prepared for the Canberra Seminar, country studies, and consultation concerning biotechnology conducted during 1988-89. The results are presented in this report, organized around the following topics: the likely socioeconomic...
    Agricultural innov... Economic Aspects Developing countries