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An economic analysis of small-holders agriculture in the central highlands of Ethiopia : a system simulation approach

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Bellete, Solomon

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In the majority of the less developed countries the small-scale peasant agriculture is the dominant sector of the countries' economies. The successes of major agricultural programs in order to increase the potentials depend primarily on the understanding of the economic organizations of the peasant households. This study analyzed over a...

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Dissertation

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1, 1978 Title: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF SMALL-HOLDERS AGRICULTURE IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS OF
Evaluating the financial risk involved in farmland investment decisions

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Knox, Kenneth W.

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Investing in farmland is one of the most important decisions that farmers face in their lifetimes. Usually, large amounts of debt are required to purchase a substantial tract of land, thereby reducing the farmer's liquidity position and future borrowing capacity. Fixed debt commitments must be met by highly variable future...

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The concept of diversification as a characteristic of farm structure

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Russell, K. D. (Kenneth Dale)

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Dissertation

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/Whittaicer' The first reason farms diversify is generally viewed as a move towards greater economic
Best-linear-unbiased-scalar-residuals-based tests for specification errors

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Navarro, Luis Alberto

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following general results: - Most selected models suggest that agriculture has been experiencing
Essays in incomplete agricultural markets

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Cross, Robin M.

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Agricultural revenues, the product of stochastic prices and yields, lead to markets which are incomplete, thereby entreating and complicating economic inquiry. The following three essays explore the incomplete nature of agricultural markets and consider the implications of incompleteness for a range of policy questions and economic tools. The first essay,...

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entreating and complicating economic inquiry. The following three essays explore the incomplete nature of
The demand for electricity in western U.S. irrigated agriculture : a dual cost function analysis

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Connor, Jeffery Dean

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The overall objective of the research reported here is to empirically measure the ability of farmers to mitigate the impact of rising electricity prices by substituting relatively inexpensive alternative inputs. A dual cost methodology is employed because it allows theoretically consistent derivation of own price and factor substitution elasticities, conditional...

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: The Demand for Electricity in Western U.S. Irrigated Agriculture: A Dual Cost Function Analysis
A comparison of box-cox and additive exponential models to estimate the depreciation of farm machinery

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Wu, Jing

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Farm machinery continues to increase in its importance to the agricultural sector. Depreciation, the decline in value of a durable asset over time, represents one of the largest costs of agricultural production. The general objectives of this study were to update and expand the number of Remaining Value (RV) functions...

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in the last decade, it is shown that agriculture output per unit of input increased by 20 percent
Risk modeling using direct solution of expected utility maximization problems

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Lambert, David K.

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A model of agricultural decision making is developed and tested in this thesis. The expected value of utility evaluated under alternative outcomes is directly maximized in a nonlinear programming model. Two features of the model distinguished it from traditional risk programming models. First, alternative attitudes towards the assumption of risk...

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management scientists to describe, predict, or prescribe economic behavior under uncertainty. In applied
Estimation of agricultural machinery and equipment depreciation patterns using flexible functional forms

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Cross, Timothy L.

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machinery and equipment costs is depreciation. Actual economic depreciation costs are known only when an
Input demand and output supply responses when the production function is heteroskedastic

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Lee, Heung-Dong

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Agriculture and Resource Economics[remove]23
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science1

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Buccola, Steven T.4
Adams, Richard M.3
Love, H. Alan2
Martin, Michael V.2
Conklin, Frank S.1
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Eisgruber, Ludwig2
Lev, Larry2
Adams, Rich1
Ballerstedt, P. J.1
Boggess, William1
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Bellete, Solomon1
Boughanmi, Houcine1
Chambers, William D1
Connor, Jeffery Dean1
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Agricultural and Resource Economics23
Computer Science1

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Master of Science (M.S.)9

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English [eng][remove]23

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Oregon State University. Graduate School23

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Masters Thesis9

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Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Mathematical models5
Agriculture -- Economic aspects4
Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Oregon4
Agricultural machinery2
Agriculture and state -- United States2
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