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| Agri-business: Present status and future prospects |
India, being primarily agriculture-based economy, has come a long way from conventional agriculture to advanced agriculture towards realizing the tremendous potential for commercial and export-oriented agri-business. At present, commercial agriculture emphasizes on high productivity and the production is made for markets. Indian farmers are vying with global market. Many internationally repurted agri-business corporations either alone or through joint ventures have entered agri-business which in turn have an impact on rural society in the guise of employment opportunities, absorption of [...] |
| Agricultura por contrato en América Latina |
La apertura de los mercados y el ajuste estructural sociopolítico y económico de las últimas décadas, han provocado profundas transformaciones en el sector rural de muchos países. Entre los cambios más significativos se destaca la expansión agrícola, el avance tecnológico y el surgimiento de nuevas formas de organización de la producción. Se ha ido consolidando una nueva ordenación de la estructura productiva y un incremento del uso de la tierra, contribuyendo a una evolución tanto de los sistemas agrarios como en el comportamiento y las estrategias de los agricultores. A partir de entonces [...] |
| Agricultural development, contract farming and Ghana's oil palm industry |
This article traces the development of the oil palm industry in Ghana and its contribution to agricultural development Drawing on the example of the Ghana Oil Palm Development Corporation (GOPDC) and its outgrower scheme, it argues that the shift from state-sponsored to market-led development has had important ramifications.for agricultural development. From its origin as a state-owned firm, GOPDC has gradually transformed itself into a market-drivenfirm as Ghana took on the broader principles of neoliberalism in the 1990s. The privatised GOPDC, while still addressing some of the challenges [...] |
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