as the conditions in the market and in the world of work and commerce gets more complicated, this requires cor-rection, improvement and also updating marketing attitude among manufacturers and marketers. it is an urgent requirement to choose and determine strategies in order to achieve the objectives. strategy means the comprehensive and main plan in manufacturing unit revealing the way it achi...

We conducted an exploratory investigation of factors influencing the adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) methods in the agricultural product distribution industry. Through a literature review and field research, and based on the technology-organization-environment (TOE) theoretical framework, this paper analyzes factors influencing RFID adoption in the agricultural product distrib...

INTRODUCTION The grain industry (mainly maize and wheat) is the largest crop industry in South Africa under rain-fed conditions. Significant changes have taken place since deregulation in agriculture and the termination of subsidies from mid 1990s. The total area under grain has decreased by about 10% to 15% (C. Du Plessis, pers. commun. 2001) due to lower prices (based on import parity and fre...

Industrial engineers in the food-processing industry have developed the Halyard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system as a preventive approach to ensuring the safety of meat and poultry products. This paper discusses both the origins of HACCP as an engineering concept and the economics of HACCP as a regulatory tool. The authors contend that the economics literature has not adequately e...

Appendix 2 Social Accounting Matrices The archetypes were built on the basis of aggregate information for a set of low income food importing countries in the three continents, and social structure coming from Social Accounting Matrices from Kenya for the Africa Archetype, Sri Lanka for the Asia archetype, and Ecuador for the Latin America archetype. The Africa archetype is based on aggregate in...

The purpose of this study was to study the feasibility of establishing agricultural processing industries in Ilam Province.A mixed research method (Dominant, Less Dominant and two-phase design) was used. A Delphi technique as qualitativeresearch method, and a descriptive-survey method for quantitative phase was applied. Based on the results of the Delphi panel, 65 different types of agricultura...

By J. ARTHUR HARRIS, Head, Department of Botany, University of Minnesota, and Collaborator, Bureau of Plant Industry, United States Department ofAgriculture; W. F. HOFFMAN, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Biochemistry, University of Minnesota, formerly {1920-1924) Field Assistant, Alkali and Drought Resistant Plant Investigations, and Biophysical Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, Un...

abstract- the evaluation of leaf area and leaf nutritional value is important for crop growth modeling and estimations of its performance. the purpose of this study was to use image processing techniques to develop an economical method to ease the assessment of nutrient status and leaf area (la) of plants and to compare the outcomes of this method with linear models. leaf area and leaf chloroph...

date is as one of the important items of the agricultural production in iran as iran's share of global production was 14.1% in 2012 and rank of production increased to second in the world too. in recent years, price uncertainty in date market has increased due to changes in government policies on date prices pattern, from a guaranteed buying pattern to negotiated price pattern. according to the...