Farming systems are transitioning from a subsistence orientation to market orientation in response to changing food demands, technologies, and policies. In India's dryland regions, watershed development, among several other initiatives, has been a critical driver of these transitions, but their outcomes are poorly understood. The present paper inve...
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We collected data on the trade of seven turtle and tortoise species endemic to Indonesia and Malaysia ( Amyda cartilaginea, Batagur borneoensis, Cuora amboinensis, Carettochelys insculpta, Heosemys annandalii, Heosemys grandis , and Heosemys spinosa ). The data on those species included: operations costs of three breeding farms and one export facil...
Since the 1980s, efforts have been made to develop sensors that measure a parameter from an individual cow. The development started with individual cow recognition and was followed by sensors that measure the electrical conductivity of milk and pedometers that measure activity. Some sensors like activity meters, electrical conductivity, weight floo...
Finance is important for Indonesian farmers to purchase agricultural inputs and machinery and to pay for hired labour, which can improve farm performance. Farmers in Indonesia can access finance from various finance providers, i.e. banks, micro-finance institutions, farmers’ associations, traders, agricultural input kiosks and so-called “other sour...
In opdracht van het ministerie van Economische Zaken heeft LEI Wageningen UR de hoogst toelaatbare pachtprijzen voor 2016 berekend conform de uitgangspunten van het Pachtprijzenbesluit 2007. In de meeste pachtprijsgebieden gaan de pachtnormen vrij sterk omhoog ten opzichte van de pachtnormen 2015. Dit wordt verklaard doordat de gemiddelde grondbelo...
Concerns about land use change and the sustainability of beef production are increasing around the world, particularly in the Amazonian region. We intend to improve understanding of economic and environmental issues of a typical Amazonian beef farm at the farm level. We use production cost and profitability analysis to assess farm economics. Throug...
The objective of the research was to explore factors determining cattle farmers' intention to adopt improved natural grassland in Brazil. The research was carried out in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the south of Brazil.
This report contains the 65 individual crop data sets to the related report A.P. Everaarts, H. de Putter and A.P. Maerere, 2015. Profitability, labour input, fertilizer application and crop protection in vegetable production in the Arusha region, Tanzania.PPO Report 653.
Frank en Ilona Post produceren in Nieuweroord (Drenthe) met 135 koeien bijna 1,2 mln. kg melk op zo’n 44 ha cultuurgrond. Het bedrijf is met ruim 27.000 kg melk per ha behoorlijk intensief. De afgelopen jaren was één van de doelstellingen van de maatschap om de kosten en de financiering per kg melk te verlagen.
Dit artikel gaat in op de economische prestaties van de Koeien en Kansen-bedrijven in 2013. Hierbij worden de resultaten van de K&K-bedrijven vergeleken met de resultaten van het gemiddelde Nederlandse melkveebedrijf gebaseerd op het Bedrijven InformatieNet van het Landbouw Economisch Instituut van Wageningen UR. Aan het project K&K nemen 16 bedrij...
