Browsing by Subject "Economic aspects"
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze econometrically the adjustments that occur in irrigated agriculture in response to increases in the cost of obtaining groundwater. In recent years there has been a growing ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)Salinity of the waters from the Red River and its major tributaries has virtually eliminated its use for irrigation of agricultural crops in Texas and Oklahoma. A chloride control project has been proposed whereby the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)The purpose of this dissertation is to extend the efforts to clarify the nature of airport noise on housing values. That noise from air traffic would lower housing values around urban airports seems intuitively obvious. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)Most activities of the rice industry in Taiwan are affected by rice policy. Accordingly, it is important to impose an appropriate rice policy. Previous research indicates that rice policy has had different major objectives ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)The Food Security Act of 1985 (1985 farm bill) provides a structure for farm program administration through 1990. The 1985 farm bill continues the conservative trend in farm programs initiated by its 1981 predecessor. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)The impact of alternative management schemes on the shrimp fishery of the eastern Gulf of Mexico is analyzed using a simulation model. The model integrates biology and economics, simulating the population dynamics and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)Data collected from a commercially operated intensive shrimp farm on the Texas coast were used to evaluate certain operational aspects of penaeid shrimp farming in Texas. These data then were incorporated in a simulation ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This dissertation investigates the impact of the recently proposed 'competitive rules' on investment in the petroleum pipeline industry. Specifically this study investigates the impact of the second competitive rule, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)The objective of this study was to develop an econometric simulation model of the U.S. financial sector that emphasizes the linkages between the financial sector and the farm sector. Demand and supply equations for eight ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The objective of this study was to develop a commodity-specific policy simulation model emphasizing commodity production and marketing relationships, input demand, and financial stocks and flows which could be incorporated ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)This study is concerned with consumers in the traditional sector of Iran who are highly influenced by Islamic rules and regulations, especially those prohibiting the charging of interest on loans. This constraint has been ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1977)Beef cattle production is the most important agricultural enterprise in Texas. Much of the state's land resources are devoted to the production of forage for raising calves and feed grains for fattening them. Yet, as in ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1976)The agricultural sector of Uruguay has been faced with the problems of low productivity and non adoption of production increasing technologies by producers. Previous research in Uruguay suggested that the use of available ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)Updating of the treatment recommendations used by Texas rice producers' for the management of the rice stink bug (RSB) is the objective of this study. Present treatment recommendations used in Texas and throughout the ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This study (1) conceptualized and estimated U.S. crop export relationships with major agricultural trade partners, (2) obtained estimates of trade-related substitution and price elasticity parameters generated by a multi-crop, ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)A study was performed to determine if addition of lactic acid within limits of industrially-practical concentrations might affect the pH of lymph node tissue. Mesenteric beef lymph nodes were either soaked in la c tic acid ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1981)Pesticides are a significant input into commercial agriculture. In 1964, 89 percent of the citrus acreage in the U.S. was treated with pesticides. By 1975, pesticide treated acreage had increased to 97 percent. Total ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)Economists are increasingly faced with the task of evaluating the aggregate economic impacts of technological changes in agricultural production. These changes may include new advances in technology or reversed technology. ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1972)The objectives of this study were to ascertain the costs of producing various crops and livestock enterprises in Reeves County, Texas and to determine through appropriate analytical techniques, optimum production strategies ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)This study was initiated to determine possible demand and supply equilibria in the East Texas timber market for the year 2000. The demand and supply schedules were developed independently, using two separate analytical ...