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A study of Iowa's farmers' markets showed that 140 jobs were created in a single year that could be attributed to farmers' market activity. [14] Other studies also found that farmers' market activity directly and indirectly supports the growth of local jobs. [15] One study showed that 5.4 jobs were created per farmers' market.
Congestion at a market in Abidjan A typical market in Africa. Efforts to develop agricultural marketing have, particularly in developing countries, intended to concentrate on a number of areas, specifically infrastructure development; information provision; training of farmers and traders in marketing and post-harvest issues; and support to the development of an appropriate policy environment.
BOUSSY-SAINT-ANTOINE, France (AP) — Truck driver Jeremy Donf understands French farmers are struggling and he wants to support local food producers. Farmer protests across Europe this week have ...
The changes are enabling some farmers to earn extra money from industry giants like Cargill, Nutrien and Anheuser-Busch. ... Consumers are pressuring food producers to support farms that use less ...
Market interventions may increase the cost to consumers for agricultural products, either via hidden wealth-transfers via the government, or increased prices at the consumer level, such as for sugar and peanuts in the US. This has led to market distortions, such as food processors using high fructose corn syrup as a replacement for sugar. High ...
A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, [36] [37] also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary [38] [39]) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers. Farmers' markets may be indoors or outdoors and typically consist of booths, tables or stands where farmers sell their ...
Agricultural economics is an applied field of economics concerned with the application of economic theory in optimizing the production and distribution of food and fiber products. Agricultural economics began as a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. It focused on maximizing the crop yield while maintaining a good soil ...
During this time, farmers engaged in the market production as the relative profitability increased. The purchase of agricultural inputs and goods that were formerly home-produced was acquired with credit. Farmers had to sell their produce at market and subsequently were enveloped in the commercial market system.