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Agricultural finance is a branch of finance which comprises financial services for agricultural production, processing and marketing, leasing (both land and equipment), and crop and livestock insurance. Although agricultural finance mostly overlaps with rural finance, some larger agricultural companies are also located in bigger towns and cities.
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.
The Sheep Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1994 authorized the creation of the American Lamb Board as a commodity checkoff program. [2]Because individual producers of nearly homogeneous agricultural commodities cannot easily convince consumers to choose one egg or orange or a single cut of beef over another, they often have joined together in commodity promotion programs to use ...
African Journal of Range & Forage Science; Agricultural and Forest Meteorology; Agricultural Economics (journal) Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment; Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems; Agronomy for Sustainable Development; Agronomy Journal; American Journal of Enology and Viticulture; Annual Review of Phytopathology; Aquaculture (journal)
The Journal of Marketing Management is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of marketing. The journal is owned by Westburn Publishers and published by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Mark Tadajewski (University of York). It is the official journal of the United Kiingdom's Academy of Marketing [1] and was established in 1985 by ...
This can affect not only food production but also the status of the women. Contracts can break down because of poor management by the company or as a result of unrealistic expectations about the capacity of farmers or about the yields that can be achieved. This has been a particular problem with attempts to promote contract farming for biofuel ...
Modern agriculture: a center pivot irrigation system on a field Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture , and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization , whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in ...