agricultural input

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Such technologies may, for example, include commercial fuels and improved agricultural inputs.
Competition and consolidation in the global marketplace, low and unpredictable product prices, and increasingly expensive agricultural inputs are three examples of these challenges.
Foreign exchange would be severely scarce and what little there was would not be used to import agricultural inputs.
Early involvement of downstream partners, particularly private sector suppliers of seed and other agricultural inputs, helps to build the momentum for successful product adoption.
An important proportion of this wage income is spent on agricultural inputs on the smallholding thereby allowing their survival as semi-proletarians.
Married men consider even their closest male kin to be competitors for scarce resources such as land, agricultural inputs, labour and even nubile women.
Although some of this gain is through intensification of agricultural inputs, a substantial portion reflects gains by genetics.
This study treats information and knowledge as agricultural inputs and as the goods that extension services provide.
The substitution of expensive agricultural inputs for a male migrant head's labour was ineffective.
Apart from agricultural inputs, the owner provides the labourers with water and basic foodstuffs free of charge during the period of cultivation.
Conservation tillage practices have demonstrated reduced impacts of soilborne pests and diseases, minimized agricultural inputs, and improved soil quality.
Small ruminants are considered as assets that can be converted readily into cash to meet immediate household financial obligations such as paying school fees, buying fertilizers or other agricultural inputs.
Instead, poverty and lack of capital with which to acquire agricultural inputs in order to improve production were most prevalent in the responses of rural communities.
Access to timely, aordable credit and agricultural inputs such as fertilizers is poor and so fertilizer use is not widespread.
This has made it difficult for farmers to adopt improved agricultural inputs and to employ labour, which are the means through which crop production can be improved.
Agricultural inputs are non-allocable due to data constraints, so the model cannot directly identify the quantity of each input used in the production of any individual agricultural output.
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