Jeffrey, S.R., Gibson, R.R. and Faminow, M.D., 1992. Nearly optimal linear programming as a guide to agricultural planning. Agric. Econ., 8: 1-19. Linear programming has long been used as a tool in agricultural planning. This paper presents and discusses a technique that can be used in conjunction with linear programming to evaluate 'nearly optimal' solutions. This technique is referred to as N...

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Wine and Juice Production in Arkansas AAESBul941 1994 Carl R Dillon, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Arkansas Carter Price, Professor, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Arkansas Justin Morris, University Professor, Department of Food Science, University of Arkansas David Metz, Marketing Director, Prospero E...

this paper tries to study the emergence and changes of mechanized industry in iran within qajar dynasty (mid-19th century) and the islamic revolution triumph (1978). it focuses on the governments role in delayed industrialization, and accordingly surveys the governments role in building institutions and commercial policy-making for industrialization. since governments nature and its role in eco...

Agricultural activity, agricultural politics, and agricultural policy are interrelated. In this article, I discuss some of the linkages in the context of France’s Fifth Republic. I demonstrate that the geographic relationship inside France between agricultural product mix and voting behavior helps to explain French governmental conduct during three major episodes of international agricultural p...

Wine and Juice Production in Arkansas AAESBul942 1994 Carl R Dillon, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Arkansas Justin Morris, University Professor, Department of Food Science University of Arkansas Carter Price, Professor Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology University of Arkansas David Ward Former Research Assistant Dept. of...

This article intends to estimate the optimal value of investment and human capital in R&D sector of Iranian economy using an augmented endogenous growth model. To do so, two issues have been studied. First, an endogenous growth model has been extended to include investment in R&D as an independent variable. In the framework of this model, in order to determine the optimal value of investment an...

Research-enabled growth in agricultural productivity is pivotal to sub-Saharan Africa's overall economic growth prospects. Yet, investments in research and development (R&D) targeted to many national food and agricultural economies throughout Africa are fragile and faltering. To gain insight into what could be driving this trend, this article updates, summarizes and reassesses the published evi...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL codes: C61 C71 C72 O13 O21 Keywords: Biofuel Supply chain Land use Spatial market equilibrium MPEC The rapid expansion of the biofuel industry diverts a large amount of agricultural crops as energy feedstocks, and in turn affects farm land allocation, feedstock market equilibrium, and agricultural economic development in local areas. In this paper, we propose game-theo...