pistachio is a major agricultural export commodity in iran. nowadays, it ranks first among iran’s agricultural exports. this paper focuses on the comparative advantage in pistachio production and the export market in iran. a policy analysis matrix (pam) framework and revealed comparative advantage (rca) index are applied to 2000-2004 data to study iranian government policy regarding pistachio p...

Corn cultivation in the United States is expected to increase to meet demand for ethanol. Nitrogen leaching from fertilized corn fields to the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River system is a primary cause of the bottom-water hypoxia that develops on the continental shelf of the northern Gulf of Mexico each summer. In this study, we combine agricultural land use scenarios with physically based models ...

Many African countries are among the poorest in the world and as a result, the development objective of most African countries is to reduce or even eradicate poverty through modernising agricultural production including fisheries. In countries around Lake Victoria, fisheries contribute 3-5% of GDP. Fisheries also contribute significantly to export earnings of a number of African countries. On a...

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 ...

a social accounting matrix (sam) was used as an analytical model to investigate the mutua/effects of export expansion in agriculture and manufacturing sectors as well as the social and economic impacts of this policy on the iranian economy. the effects of the above policies were analyzed within several scenarios including a 25 percent increase in exports of agriculture and manufacturing product...

the process of globalization is changing the world economically, politicaly, socially and culturally. globalization in the general sense is the greater integration of the national economies in the world and it is a much discussed phenomenon. greater integration has many effects on the structure of production in national economies, the roleof multinational corporation and foreign direct investme...

this survey is carried out with the aim of investigating iran’s export potentials of agricultural products to member countries of the organization of islamic conference (oic) through use of such appropriate methods as: rca, hs and cosine index. the dates are computed be means of hs data codes in the range of 010000-240000 during 2002-2006. the islamic countries are divided into 3 groups as base...

in this study, application of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (anfis) in forecasting three perspectives (1, 2, and 4 years) ahead of iran’s agricultural products export was compared with arima as the most common econometrics linear forecasting method. for this purpose, iran’s agricultural products export revenues related to 1959-2010, and forecast performance measures such as r2, mad, and...

Noren, A. & Persson, A. 1997. Graded quality of 30-year-old Norway spruce grown on agricultural and forest land. Studia Forestalia Suecica 203. 19 pp. ISSN 0039-3150. ISBN 91-576-5553-7. Six 30-year-old, fast-grown Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) stands in Sweden, comprising a total of 700 stems, were examined. Four had been planted on agricultural land and two on very fertile forest la...