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drims - January 31, 2023
PRICE MECHANISM AND CONTROL IN A VOLATILE ECONOMY: A VERITABLE TOOLS FOR STABILITY
Price control is an essential strategy for the development of effective marketing and sustainable consumption of staple commodities like rice in emerging and developing countries such as Nigeria. Price mechanisms on staple foods are often imposed to serve social and economic objectives (Murphy et al. 2019). They may be part of government efforts to protect […]
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drims
- October 23, 2022
Climate Smart Rice production
Climate change poses a threat to rice farming across the world, among other things, due to anticipated irrigation water scarcity and escalated labour costs. Not only that, conventional paddy, where rice is grown by transplanting seedlings in puddled soils, is a major emitter of methane. In Asia alone, these types of rice growing systems are […]
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drims
- September 15, 2022
How To Guarantee Uptake Of Agricultural Innovation Among Small Scale Farmers
INTRODUCTION Uptake of agricultural innovation refers to the integration or adoption of an innovation by a farmer into their normal farming activities over a considerable period of time. It is however important to note that adoption is not a permanent trait. According to Dasgupta (2021) an individual may choose to stop the use of an […]
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drims
- June 3, 2022
Protocol for Collection of Cross-Sectional Data
What is Cross-Sectional Data? In statistics and econometrics, cross-sectional data, also known as a cross section of a sample population, is data obtained by analyzing a large number of subjects (such as people, companies, nations, or regions) at the same time. It’s also possible that the study ignores variations in time. The most common method […]
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