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Growth and Prospects of Agro-Processing Industries in Punjab
No full textPresent study attempts to examine the growth and prospects of agro-processing industries in Punjab in the post liberalization period. Punjab that used to perform reasonably well in terms of industrialization, few years back, is today facing the industrial crunch owing to obvious reasons. Keeping present trends in mind, the state needs to emulate the growth path adopted by China, explicitly, wherein thrust to development had been on the manufacturing sector. With availability of food grain production round the year, it seems viable also in the state to develop the agro processing industries. In fact, researchers have pointed out that Punjab’s agriculture has reached a stage where its sustainability is in doubt. If such apprehensions turn out to be true, then future of masses will also land in darkness. Development of agro-processing industries at this juncture, are perceived to be the stimulator that can revamp the vanished glory of the state. The study is an attempt made through empirical framework to find out the conditions for the development of agro-processing industries in the state.Keywords. Prospects, Agro-processing, Development.JEL. L52, L66, L67
A Critical Study on the Haldar and Mahadevan's Reliability Analysis
No full textAbstractMahadevan and Haldar has developed reliability analysis method which is presented in their book: Reliability Assessment Using Stochastic Finite Element Analysis (2000). They use Stochastic Finite Element Method, as an input to explicit performance function required by FORM (First Order Reliability Method) and SORM (Second Order Reliability Method). This method is claimed to have been verified using Direct Monte Carlo simulation and the results are satisfactory. This paper presents a comparison of Haldar and Mahadevan's Method and Wisudawan Method which is based on Direct Monte Carlo Simulation and Finite Element Method. The comparison shows that there is a large different result. However Direct Monte Carlo Simulation is most accurate method, while FORM and SORM has been criticized by previous researcher because of the less accurate result in some cases. This paper recommends for Haldar and Mahadevan also other researchers to increase the accuracy of the method
Revisiting the impact of economic crisis on Indonesian agro-food production
No full textThis article discusses the impact of the ongoing global economic crisis on the Indonesian agro-food sector. It compares the current situation with the crisis of 1997–98 and examines whether the liberalisation of the Indonesian economy (and the agro-food sector specifically) in the post-1999 period has increased the exposure of Indonesian food producers and consumers to the volatility associated with global financial and commodity markets. During the 1997–98 crisis, the Indonesian state (with the support of the international development community) instituted structural reforms and increased stabilisation measures to mitigate the effects of the crisis. The author considers whether those measures are still in place to offset the shocks of the current crisis, and what effect they have had on Indonesian food producers and consumers. The question of consumer demand in a recessionary time has particular relevance for those Indonesian agro-food producers who diversified into high-value-added commodities (such as organics) in the past decade
Development of Structural Dynamic Analysis Software of Truss Structure Using Monte Carlo Finite Element Method
No full textStructural reliability analysis is increasingly used in conjunction with the design of offshore structures which have high uncertainty. Two problems i.e. reliability and complexity of the structures resulted in Monte Carlo Finite Element Method (MCFEM) method of analysis. In the first part of this research, we will show results comparison between deterministic analysis software made in Proposed Software and analysis using commercial established software. In this case, object will assume as a simple Plane Truss structure with multi degrees of freedom applied dynamic load in the support of structure. The second part after obtaining a deterministic result compared by commercial software, further we will apply MCFEM algorithm to the deterministic analysis algorithm which has been made. The results of this research, contains a new procedure in the form of reliability simulation algorithm by combining Monte Carlo Simulation and Finite Element Method in Dynamic Model
Development of Structural Dynamic Analysis Software of Truss Structure Using Monte Carlo Finite Element Method
No full textStructural reliability analysis is increasingly used in conjunction with the design of offshore structures which have high uncertainty. Two problems i.e. reliability and complexity of the structures resulted in Monte Carlo Finite Element Method (MCFEM) method of analysis. In the first part of this research, we will show results comparison between deterministic analysis software made in Proposed Software and analysis using commercial established software. In this case, object will assume as a simple Plane Truss structure with multi degrees of freedom applied dynamic load in the support of structure. The second part after obtaining a deterministic result compared by commercial software, further we will apply MCFEM algorithm to the deterministic analysis algorithm which has been made. The results of this research, contains a new procedure in the form of reliability simulation algorithm by combining Monte Carlo Simulation and Finite Element Method in Dynamic Model
The Role of Coordination and Cooperation for Bt-maize cultivation in Brandenburg, Germany
No full textSince 2006, several varieties of transgenic Bt-maize are approved for commercial cultivation in Germany. The German regulatory framework for growing these crops comprises ex-ante regulations as well as ex-post liability rules to protect conventional and organic farming from possible negative side effects of transgenic plants and to ensure co-existence. Public regulation is also suspected to impose additional costs to those farmers who intend to plant Bt-maize. We address the question how Bt-maize growing farmers perceive the additional costs of regulation and whether coordination or cooperation takes place in order to diminish these costs. In 2006, we carried out a case study in the Oderbruch region (Brandenburg, Germany) comprising eight Bt-maize growing farmers and six adjacent neighbours. The predominantly large farms chose intrafarm coordination to manage the construction of buffer zones within their own fields and to avoid the planting of Bt-maize close to their neighbours. Inter-farm coordination or cooperation with adjacent farmers was not regarded necessary to achieve co-existence.Coordination, Cooperation, Bt-maize, Crop Production/Industries,
Stages for the More Sustainable Farm
No full textCurrently, agricultural farm units are faced with a double and most times contradictory challenge, in order to be successful: on the one hand the invested capital has to be profitable and the economic performance has to be maximised. On the other hand, given the socio-environmental situation, it is necessary to preserve and to protect the environment and natural resources. Given the potential conflict of the two aims, since the satisfaction of one implies the underperformance of the other (and vice versa), the question then is: which is the solution to choose? We intend, in this work, to formulate a farm plan with the purpose of reconciling the criteria of environmental sustainability with that of economic competitiveness. For this achievement we proceed to the comparative study of sustainability of different groups of farms identified in the study area (first evaluation cycle) through MESMIS (“Marco para la Evaluación de Sistemas de Manejo de Recursos Naturales Mediante Indicadores de Sustentabilidad” - Framework for Evaluation of Natural-Resource Systems Handling through Sustainability Indicators) methodology, that allowed to select the more sustainable group of farms. Based on the found potentialities and weakness on these production systems, we stepped to the planning of a production unit of bovine meat, which obeys simultaneously to economic and environmental objectives, using Multicriteria Decision. We finished the work with the sustainability evaluation between groups of farms identified previously and the planned farms (second evaluation cycle), based, again, in the MESMIS methodology, to confirm (or not) the greatest sustainability of the last ones. Analyses of the results allow us to confirm the greatest relative sustainability of the planned farm, for the diverse traced scenarios.Decision taking, planning, sustainability, Environmental Economics and Policy, Farm Management,
Agro ecosystem fully healthy food to ways agro production.
No full textEste artículo hace una primera aproximación a los aportes desde la agroecología a un agro ecosistema integralmente sano, y cuestiona la bondad de las agriculturas de precisión y convencional en este sentido. Para el autor, un agro ecosistema integralmente sano es aquel simultáneamente saludable para los ecosistemas que lo sustentan, y para todos los seres e instituciones involucrados en la cadena de agregación de valor hasta el consumidor final y la cadena de retorno de residuos a los resumideros ecos sistémicos. Saludable en todas las dimensiones de la vida: territorial, ecológica, bio-psico-neuro-emocional, espiritual, cultural, tecnológica, social, política y económica. Abstract
This article is a first approach to the contributions from agro ecology agro ecosystem to fully healthy, and questions the goodness of precision agriculture and conventional in this regard. For the author, a fully healthy agro ecosystem simultaneously is that healthy ecosystems that sustain it, and for all people and institutions involved in the chain of added value to the consumer and the chain of return of waste to drains ecosystem . Healthy in all aspects of life: territorial, environmental, bio-psycho-neuro-emotional, spiritual, cultural, technological, social, political and economic
The Problems of Personnel Training for Agro Tourism
No full textРозглянуто стислу історію розвитку агротуризму в Україні та світі. З’ясовано форми організації розвитку агротуризму. Розглянуті питання проблематики підготовки туристських кадрів для сфери професійної діяльності у агротуризмі. Сформульовані вимоги до майбутніх фахівців саме цього напрямку туризму. Розглянуто систему підготовки фахівців агротуризму в Україні.The article deals with the brief history of the development of agro tourism in Ukraine and in the world. The author distinguishes the forms of organization of rural tourism. The problems is paid to the training of tourism staff, the author formulates the requirements for specialist in agro tourism. The author considers personnel training in the concept of rural tourism in Ukraine
Problems of land legal relations in the agro-industrial complex
No full textThis article is devoted to the analysis of the problems of land legal relations in the agro-industrial complex. The author studied the theoretical aspects of the regulation of land legal relations in the agro-industrial complex, the main problems in this area, and also developed and proposed ways to solve the problems indicated in the article
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