Digital marketplaces are market institutions that employ digital information technology – computers, the Internet, and the World Wide Web – to provide trading services to buyers and sellers. We trace the development of agribusiness digital marketplaces on the World Wide Web and use observations taken from a sample of 233 agribusiness digital marketplaces to assess the impact of marketplace char...

This note explores business incubation as a mechanism for effectively and sustainably accelerating the growth of startup enterprises that bring innovative technologies and services to market. Typically startup enterprises face a number of challenges in growing, including the lack of technical assistance, appropriate financing, networks of partners and customers, and infrastructure. Business inc...

in order to study the effect of vermicompost individually and enriched with chemical fertilizer on soil micronutrient content and micronutrient concentration of lettuce (lactuca sativa l.), athree year experiment was conducted with randomized complete block design in two factors and three replications at the experimental farm of sari agricultural sciences and natural resources university in 200...

BACKGROUND: Management of water deficit is a great factor to sustainable crop production, especially in arid and semi-arid regions. Vermicompost is an organic compound that is microbial active and rich in nutrients that results from the interaction of earthworms and microorganisms with organic matter decomposition. OBJECTIVES: This research was carried out to ...

today, the production of healthy and high quality seedlings is the main factors of success in growing vegetables such as tomato. hence, in order to investigate the effect of different levels of vermicompost and nitrogen on the growth parameters of tomato seedlings (lycopersicon esculentum mill. cv. rio grande), a factorial experiment was conducted in a randomized complete design with three repl...

Economic development of transition and developed countries is associated with increasingly unhealthy dietary habits among low-income population segments. Drawing on Ulrich Beck’s sociological theory of risk society, the present research note calls attention to the positive relation between national economic development and food risks that result in the rise of food-related diseases and healthca...

Wagner, Robert, M.S., Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, College of Agriculture, North Dakota State University, April 2001. Risk Management Strategies for Grain Traders and Processors. Major Professor: Dr. William W. Wilson. This study reviewed the theory and current techniques of risk management for firms operating in the agribusiness industry. Various motivations and tools of h...

This paper analyzes the relationships between bilateral trade and economic growth in the U.S. and Korean economies. Using quarterly data from 1990 to 2008, the theoretical procedures utilize Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) models under the static model assumption, an Impulse Response Function (IRF) and Forecast Error Variation Decomposition (FEVD) under the ...

BACKGROUND: The use of agricultural waste as organic fertilizers is important for soil fertility and plants health production. OBJECTIVES: The aims of this study were to examine the effects of different types and rates of vermicompost on physiological and morphological properties of lettuce. METHODS: Present study was conducted acco...

ABSTRACT
 Investment, either directly or indirectly, aims to obtain certain benefits (profits) from the investment, with hope of getting profits in future. For a rational prospective investor, his attention will be directed rate return on and chosen investment is one that promises highest particular risk. Investors investing must assess risk future returns through influence dividend change...