1.1 INTRODUCTION Malaysia and Thailand are both members of ASEAN and these countries are agricultural based economy since 1960s. Malaysia and Thailand have tropical climate which is suitable for the plantation of palm oil and paddy in the country. 1.1.1 Rice Production in Malaysia and Thailand In Malaysia‚ rice is regarded as the most important crop in the food sub-sector. However‚ the area under cultivation of paddy has persistently declined since the mid 1970s (Athukorala et al.‚ 2009) and 90%
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Zubairu Department of Economics & 2Department of Management Technology School of Management and Information Technology Modibbo Adama University of Technology‚ Yola‚ Adamawa State‚ Nigeria. Abstract This paper investigates the contribution of agricultural sector and petroleum sector to the economic growth and development (GDP) of the Nigerian economy between 1960 and 2010 through the application of Augmented DickeyFuller technique in testing the unit root property of the series; after which Chow
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Agricultural marketing This refers to the marketing of agricultural products e.g. Coffee‚ maize‚ tea. Etc. it is regarded as unique due to the characteristics of demand and supply of agricultural products. The production of agricultural products in countries such as Kenya‚ is characterized by A large number of small farmers. A lack of full control over quality and quantity of the output. Inability of individual farmers to engage in demand creation activities for their own produce. Seasonality of
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Chapter 19: The Expansion of Europe in the 18th Century Agriculture and the land 1) Complete this statement about the common people‚ “life remained a struggle with poverty and uncertainty with the landlord and the tax collector. 2) What was the basic problem of ordinary men and women in 1700 in Europe? • Living standards were poor: The common man were poor and worked long and hard hours in poverty. There was a lack of warm clothing‚ housing‚ and good food. Yields for all
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the chapter by answering the following questions. How did the open-field system work? Why was much of the land left uncultivated while the people sometimes starved? What changes brought the open-field system to an end? Where did the modern agricultural revolution originate? Why? What is meant by enclosure? Was this movement a great swindle of the poor by the rich‚ as some have claimed? Was the dramatic growth of population in the eighteenth century due to a decreasing death rate or an increasing
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Khrushchev’s agricultural plans caused millions of Soviet Citizens to die of starvation and cause massive unrest and discontent. The virgin land scheme was a campaign designed to drastically improve the agricultural production of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev’s plan was to convert unused land in Serbia and Kazakhstan into farming land. Yet‚ there were 3 main reasons why this project failed. Khrushchev had discouraged the use of the highly popular and efficient crop cycle and fallow land techniques
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Government and politics A2: Europe Why is CAP so controversial? To many the ‘Common Agricultural Policy’ is undoubtfully one of the most controversial policies within the European Union. The initial reason for its creation in 1962 was to increase productivity and to address the concept of Europe never going ‘hungry’ or in other words living standards. Critics are arguing that the basis to which the policy was founded upon does not reflect issues needed to be tackled in the 21st century and should
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THE AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN NIGERIA AGRICULTURE IN NIGERIA: THE NEW POLICY THRUST 1.0 PREAMBLE Agriculture in the context of the economy is tied with the various sectors and is essential for generating broad based growth necessary for development. Agriculture I~ fundamental to the sustenance of life and is the bedrock of economic development‚ especially in the provision of adequate and nutritious food so vital for human development and industrial raw materials for industry. Sustainable agricultural
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change in population made Americans and even Europeans more dependent on farmers for food sources. New machines helped farmers produce more crops with less man power. Congress passed the Hatch Act‚ which gave the United States its network of agricultural experiment stations. The Department of Agriculture was created in 1889. These actions by the government were not enough. Farmers had the biggest problem with the railroads. The railroad companies did not publish their rates and charged
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In the first Agricultural Revolution‚ people farmed to provide food for their family. Producing little amounts of food for little groups of people was a sustainable way to keep families from starving. The second Agricultural Revolution‚ however‚ was the complete opposite. Farming became a commercial business‚ generating profit and more food by using machines to do manual labor and harvesting a variety of crops. The final‚ and current‚ Agricultural Revolution includes the production of Genetically
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