BACKGROUND This paper discusses how hashish produced by the local population of Tyup, Kyrgyzstan became an important source of cash in an agricultural semi-subsistence economy. METHODS The paper is based on a research study conducted between 2009 and 2010 that adopted a mixed-method approach to data collection. I gathered 64 semi-structured interviews, 147 structured interviews and made ethno...

Sustainability in agriculture has two dimensions: a. Natural Resource Sustainability b. Socioeconomic Sustainability Natural Resource Sustainability is based on the stability of the ecology of agricultural ecosystems based on interactions between soil, water and biodiversity. This Sustainability measures the wealth of' nature's economy' and the foundation of all other economies. Nature's econom...

The economical situation at agricultural industry has been changed rapidly in Korea for the last 40 years. The population in farming area decreased sharply and the labor demand increased dramatically. The portion of the old and women has been increased. The farm size, and farm rural wage have been increased. Those were the driving forces of the mechanization in agricultural industry. The Agricu...

Why might it be that low income countries would apply regulatory systems for agricultural biotechnology modeled after European standards, even though it means their poor farmers and consumers lose any potential gains in agricultural productivity and social welfare? Ten years of commercial use in the United States, Canada, Argentina, and Brazil have demonstrated that traits such as insect-resist...

With the global development of knowledge economy, the knowledge requirement of farmers is more personalized and solution-oriented, so there is pressing needs to develop agricultural knowledge service. The paper analyzes characteristics of agricultural knowledge service, and summarizes typical cases of agricultural knowledge service development in China.

Kenya is an exciting case for those who suspect that agriculture has powerful linkages with the rest of the economy. Over the period 1965-87 Kenya's agricultural production consistently surpassed the average for Sub-Saharan Africa. The same was true of its manufacturing and services (see World Bank 1989, table 7.1). One possible explanation for this performance is that agricultural growth stimu...

1. INTRODUCTION The Indian economy has moved decisively to a higher path of growth in recent years, making it one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. The rate of economic growth measured in real per capita gross domestic product (GDP) (1999-2000 prices) averaged less than 5% per year during the 1980s and 1990s, increasing to more than 7% per year during the period 2003-07 (Planning C...

A detailed investigation on the production, processing and sales of Sichuan agricultural products was made. Issues like how to bring into full play the regional advantages of Sichuan agricultural products and how to promote the advantageous resource allocation and competitiveness of agricultural products in market economy were also probed. Suggestions and schemes for the e-commerce service syst...