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The timing of breeding by Zebra Finches in relation to rainfall in Central Australia. by Richard A. Zann, Stephen R. Morton, Kevin R. Jones and Nancy T. Burley
No full texttag=1 data=The timing of breeding by Zebra Finches in relation to rainfall in Central Australia. by Richard A. Zann, Stephen R. Morton, Kevin R. Jones and Nancy T. Burley
tag=2 data=Zann, Richard A.%Morton, Stephen R.%Jones, Kevin R.%Burley, Nancy T.
tag=3 data=EMU
tag=4 data=95
tag=6 data=Part 3 September 1995
tag=7 data=208-222.
tag=8 data=BIRDS
tag=9 data=ZEBRA FINCHES
tag=11 data=1995/1/7
tag=12 data=95/0339
tag=13 data=CA
Exits Among U.S. Burley Tobacco Growers After the End of the Federal Tobacco Program
No full textThis study explores the relationship between family/farm characteristics and the probability of exiting burley tobacco farming in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. Following the termination of the federal tobacco program in 2004, 54% of burley tobacco–growing households in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia exited burley tobacco farming by 2006. Tobacco yield, tobacco farm cash receipts, tobacco price, off-farm employment, and farm size are the most dominant variables discriminating between exiting and surviving tobacco farms. Data for this study came from a mail survey of burley tobacco producers in Tennessee, Virginia, and North Carolina in May 2006.burley tobacco, exit, federal tobacco program, Agribusiness, Agricultural and Food Policy, Crop Production/Industries, Environmental Economics and Policy, Financial Economics, Land Economics/Use, Risk and Uncertainty, C25, Q12, Q18,
A comparative value chain analysis of burley tobacco in Malawi - 2003/04 and 2009/10
No full textThis article conducts a value chain analysis of smallholder burley tobacco production in Malawi for the 2003/04 and 2009/10 agricultural seasons. The comparison suggests in 2003/04 smallholder profits from growing burley were limited by two main factors: first, the practices of leaf merchant companies on the auction floors who operated as a cartel (and governed the burley supply thread); and secondly, by inefficient marketing arrangements. By the 2009/10 season the rents, governance and systemic efficiency within the supply thread had changed considerably: there was greater competition on the auction floors largely due to direct state intervention (which increased growers' net margins in nominal terms), improvements in marketing arrangements, tighter state regulation (including the introduction of minimum prices for grades of burley) and increased systemic efficiency (through a rapid expansion of contract farming). The article concludes by highlighting some of the opportunities and threats that this form of vertical integration poses smallholder growers.
Becoming a bwana and burley tobacco in the Central Region of Malawi
No full textSmallholders now grow most of Malawi's main export crop – burley tobacco. Based on nineteen months' fieldwork in the Central Region, this article offers a sociological interpretation of why some smallholder growers spend a proportion of burley income on conspicuous consumption in rural towns and trading centres. This practice can be seen as a form of inculcated behaviour whereby smallholders reproduce elements of one model of success in this region: that of the Malawian tobacco bwana (boss/master). The article discusses implications from this form of potlatch behaviour by describing the contrasting fortunes of two non-farm rural enterprises, examining data on how tobacco production and „cooling off? is viewed by wives, and comparing the crop preferences of husbands and wives. It concludes by suggesting that the concept of conspicuous consumption may provide an alternative prism through which to view apparently unintelligible investment decisions in African economies to the instrumental lens of neo-patrimonialism.
ANALISIS POLA KEMITRAAN TERHADAP PENDAPATAN USAHATANI TEMBAKAU WHITE BURLEY ( Kasus pada Usahatani Tembakau White Burley di Desa Ampel Kecamatan Wuluhan Kabupaten Jember )
No full textTembakau White burley merupakan bahan utama dalam industri rokok
Sigaret Putih Mesin (SPM). Penggunaan tembakau White Burley mencapai 20%
dari komposisi seluruh bahan baku rokok. Di Propinsi Jawa Timur, tembakau
White Burley di usahakan di Kabupaten Lumajang dan Kabupaten Jember.
Menurut Dinas Perkebunan Kabupaten Jember, Kecamatan Wuluhan memiliki
luas panen terbesar yaitu 244 Ha. Usahatani tembakau White Burley di Kecamatan
Wuluhan dilakukan dengan jalan kemitraan dengan PT. Philip Moris.
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pola kemitraan, faktor-faktor
yang mendorong berkembangnya pola kemitraan, mengetahui efisiensi
penggunaan biaya, mengetahui pendapatan, mengetahui faktor-faktor yang
berpengaruh terhadap tingkat pendapatan petani yang melakukan kemitraan
dengan PT. Philip Moris di Desa Ampel Kecamatan Wuluhan. Penentuan daerah
penelitian didasarkan pada metode disengaja (Purposive Method) yaitu Desa
Ampel Kecamatan Wuluhan. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah
metode deskriptif analitik dan korelasional. Metode pengambilan contoh
dilakukan dengan metode Disproportinate Stratified Random Sampling. Metode
pengumpulan data dengan menggunakan data primer dan data sekunder.
Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) Pola kemitraan yang terjalin
adalah pola kemitraan kerjasama operasional agribisnis (KOA); (2) Faktor-faktor
pendorong berkembangnya kemitraan adalah jaminan pasar, jaminan modal,
keterbukaan pihak pengusaha, bimbingan teknis pasca panen, keterlibatan
pemerintah, bimbingan teknis budidaya, ketersediaan pupuk, anjuran penanaman
varietas tertentu dan penanggungan resiko; (3) Nilai R/C ratio pada usahatani
tembakau White Burley sebesar 1,75, maka usahatani efisien dan layak untuk
diusahakan; (4) Pendapatan rata-rata usahatani tembakau White Burley sebesar
Rp 10.112.589,22, nilai tersebut menunjukkan keuntungan bagi petani; dan
(5) Faktor-faktor yang berpengaruh nyata terhadap pendapatan usahatani
tembakau White Burley adalah luas lahan, biaya produksi, harga jual, dan
produksi. Faktor-faktor yang berpengaruh tidak nyata terhadap pendapatan
usahatani adalah umur petani, pendidikan, dan lama petani bermitra.
PT. Philip Moris sebagai perusahaan mitra harus bersifat terbuka terhadap
petani, khususnya terkait dengan standar kualitas dan kuantitas tembakau White
Burley yang diinginkan oleh perusahaan. Kemitraan antara PT. Philip Moris
dengan petani tembakau White Burley harus dilandasi dengan rasa kekeluargaan,
sehingga setiap permasalahan yang timbul dalam kemitraan dapat terpecahkan
melalui jalan musyawarah
1993-1994 T. R. Pearson
No full textT. R. Pearson, a.k.a. Rick Gavin, was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was a student at North Carolina State University, where he gained a B.A. and M.A. in English. He was the first recipient of the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence Fellowship. He is the acclaimed author of fourteen novels, including A Short History of a Small Place and Warwolf, and a dozen screenplays. Top of the Rock is his fifth nonfiction book. He lives in Virginia and Brooklyn, New York. (Photo credit: Marian Young)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/grisham_res/1026/thumbnail.jp
Adaptation of aromatic Burley tobacco varieties to Northern Italian environments
No full textFrom 1985 to 1987 eight varieties of domestic and foreign Burley tobacco were studied in some Northern Italy locations (Veneto Region) , as an alternative to the air-cured light and dark tobacco presently grown in that area.
An average 3-year yield equal to or higher than 3 t /ha of cured leaf was obtained for all the tested varieties, which indicates a general adaptation to the environment. Early-flowering types were more productive than late-flowering ones; the qualitative leaf traits (alkaloid content, combustibilty and specifi leaf weight) were mainly realted to the growing seasons. The yield stability thest and the mean leaf yields highlighted CAS 83-1A and CAS 83-1E cultivars as high-yielding and stable genotypes, and Virginia 528 as a medium to high yielding genotype adapted to less favourable conditions
Burley Tobacco Production Guide
No full textThis report provides data on burley tobacco test plots, including agronomic practices, greenhouse management, fertilizer use, crop rotation, cover crops, sucker control, and control of diseases, weeds and insect pests. Also discusses curing practices
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Letter from J. R. Eakin to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from J. R. Eakin to Carl T. Hayden concerning access to Rowe Well and the canyon
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