Cassava is planted each year in about 120,000 hectares of agricultural land in the Philippines, producing about 1.8 million tonnes of cassava roots. Principal products of the processing industry are food, dried chips and starch. As a traded commodity, however, cassava contributes only about 2% to gross value-adding in agriculture. The following factors favor the expansion of the industry: a) tr...

By moving societies toward globalization and the expansion of competition in the industrial product market, human resource efficiency more than ever has become the determining factor in the competitiveness of industrial products in domestic and foreign markets and thus the profitability of the industry. The main objective of this study is to identify and explain the factors affecting the effici...

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This paper studies the capacity investment decisions of an agri-processor that uses a commodity input to produce a commodity output and a byproduct. Using a multiperiod model, we study the one-time processing and (output) storage capacity investment decisions, and the periodic processing and inventory decisions in the presence of input and output spot price uncertainties and uncertain productio...

Driven by the development of informatization, it is necessary to integrate agricultural product processing industry and green ecological in Gansu Province. The characteristic both integrated informationized industry. Based on analysis current situation Province, this paper uses analytic hierarchy process select 14 indicators for measurement, summarizes future potential Province according rankin...

This study analyzes characteristics determining member’s willingness to invest in cooperatives using ordered logit model. The data were collected in a field survey among 122 cooperative members in north-central China. The descriptive analysis of survey evidence suggests that cooperatives in China generally having poor ability to deliver the processing services related to product package, gradin...

Agricultural census data and fieldwork observations are used to analyze changes in land cover/use intensity across Rondônia and Mato Grosso states along the agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Amazon. Results show that the development of land use is strongly related to land distribution structure. While large farms have increased their share of annual and perennial crops, small and medium si...

tation of productive new technologies that provide more food, shelter, and industrial materials for an expanding world population. Agricultural output needed to produce an abundant food supply for nations where economies and distribution systems are adequate is currently achieved on approximately six million square miles of cultivated land, the same land use as in 1950, despite a doubling in wo...