Based on intensive village study this paper tries to show that the rapid agricultural growth in West Bengal since the 1980s is mainly attributable to the development of p [...]

This paper presents the results from a survey of New York dairy farms that links manure management practices and farmer willingness to participate in voluntary environmen [...]

This paper estimates "input-saving" and "output-augmenting" productivity (PGX and PGY) with respect to the stock of technological knowledge resulting from public R&E [...]

In response to a concern about irrigation owners' exploitative pricing to buyers, this paper investigates the determinants of groundwater price in Madhya Pradesh, India. [...]

The evaluation and forecasting of the performance of the Unions of Rural Cooperatives (URC) can be performed through the use of various types of financial ratios, such as [...]

Mori and Inaba proposed an estimation method of deriving individual consumption by age from macro data classified by age of household head (HH), using quadratic programmi [...]

This paper investigated the role of farmers' access to information in a farm household's decisions of whether or not to adopt hybrid maize and the amount to adopt using d [...]

Based on the model by de Janvry, Fafchamps, and Sadoulet (1991), this study gives a two-step interpretation to response of the shadow or internal prices in a peasant hous [...]

The paper aims to evaluate rural farming villages through an ethical view point. The method of evaluation is to grasp respondents' changes of attitudes in a CVM survey, w [...]

Most large-scale millers in the Kumasi area, central Ghana, provide interest-free or low interest loans to farmers under the agreement that the farmers will bring their p [...]