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Rural diversification in the west MidlandsKelly, Catherine E. January 1994 (has links)
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Farm-based accommodation and the restructuring of agriculture in England and WalesEvans, Nicholas Jeremy January 1990 (has links)
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POTENTIAL FOR ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES TO REPLACE TOBACCO: BURLEY PRODUCERS PERCEPTIONSMendieta Umana, Maria Paula 01 August 2011 (has links)
Demand for domestic tobacco has decreased over the past two decades. In 2004, the tobacco buyout program terminated marketing quotas and price support established under the federal tobacco program in 1938. Additionally, in 2003, the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WTO FCTC) acknowledged the importance of supply control in conjunction with demand control strategies to eliminate or reduce the consumption of tobacco products. According to the Census of Agriculture, the number of tobacco farms in the US fell by 40 percent between 2002 and 2007. Tobacco farmers are looking for alternative on-farm and off-farm sources of income. This study uses a rank-ordered logit model (ROLM) to explore factors affecting farmers’ perceptions about the potential for grain crops, cotton, peanuts, hay, fruits and vegetables, cow/calf, dairy, beef cattle and, other crops/livestock to replace tobacco production. Results suggest that hay is one of the on-farm enterprises perceived as having the highest potential to replace tobacco among burley tobacco farmers. Age, education, farm size and farm cash receipts were found to affect farmers’ perceptions about the potential for different alternative enterprises to replace tobacco. Additionally, results suggest that researchers should be careful when designing ranking questions in order to maximize rate of response and quality of the data obtained from this type of questions.
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Farm Diversification in Rural Areas of the Västra Götaland County in Sweden : Are there Evidence of Scope Economies?Paramanathan, Mathivathana January 2006 (has links)
The thesis studies the impact of the financial support of the Environmental and Rural Devel-opment Programme of 2000-2006 on farm diversification and other activities in the rural areas of the Västra Götaland County for the period 2000-2005. Furthermore, it analyses if diver-sification within the firms has improved efficiency due to economies of scope. The statistical data of this study is based on a telephone survey of a total population of 50 firms that have received financial support for diversification, within the County of Västra Götaland. The response rate of the telephone survey was 80 per cent of the total popula-tion. The statistical analysis is based on chi-square and logit models in combination with a descriptive analysis in order to test the hypothesis of the thesis. Therefore, the empirical analysis has both a quantitative and a qualitative character. The result of the study shows that about 87.7 per cent of the surveyed firms have diversi-fied their economic activities during the years 2000-2005. Firms owned by women tend to have diversified to a larger extent compared to men. Further, women show a tendency to be more successful with a higher degree of diversification within the service sector com-pared to men. The enterprises within the production and refinement sectors have, on the other hand, a propensity to focus on traditional agricultural production despite the diversi-fication. A majority of the interviewed firms have received benefits from scope economies, which imply that the firms utilise joint production with shared inputs. The scope econo-mies existed among studied firms previous to the support and there are no significant changes in the economies of scope due to the financial support. Overall, the financial sup-port seems to have had a positive impact on the firms’ economic situation since none of the studied firms has experienced a decline in employment, turnover or income.
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Wind Farm Diversification and Its Impact on Power System ReliabilityDegeilh, Yannick 2009 August 1900 (has links)
As wind exploitation gains prominence in the power industry, the extensive use
of this intermittent source of power may heavily rely on our ability to select the best
combination of wind farming sites that yields maximal reliability of power systems at
minimal cost.
This research proposes a general method to minimize the wind park global power
output variance by optimally distributing a predetermined number of wind turbines over
a preselected number of potential wind farming sites for which the wind patterns are
statistically known. The objective is to demonstrate the benefits of diversification for the
reliability of wind-sustained systems through the search for steadier overall power
outputs.
Three years of wind data from the recent NREL/3TIER study in the western US
provides the statistics for evaluating each site for their mean power output, variance and
correlation with each other so that the best allocations can be determined. Some
traditional reliability indices such as the LOLP are computed by using sequential Monte
Carlo simulations to emulate the behavior of a power system uniquely composed of wind
turbines and a load modeled from the 1996 IEEE RTS.
It is shown that configurations featuring minimal global power output variances
generally prove the most reliable for moderate load cases, provided the sites are not
significantly correlated with the modeled load. Under these conditions, the choice of
uncorrelated/negatively correlated sites is favored. The correlations between the
optimized global wind power outputs and the modeled load are studied as well.
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Farm Diversification in Rural Areas of the Västra Götaland County in Sweden : Are there Evidence of Scope Economies?Paramanathan, Mathivathana January 2006 (has links)
<p>The thesis studies the impact of the financial support of the Environmental and Rural Devel-opment Programme of 2000-2006 on farm diversification and other activities in the rural areas of the Västra Götaland County for the period 2000-2005. Furthermore, it analyses if diver-sification within the firms has improved efficiency due to economies of scope.</p><p>The statistical data of this study is based on a telephone survey of a total population of 50 firms that have received financial support for diversification, within the County of Västra Götaland. The response rate of the telephone survey was 80 per cent of the total popula-tion. The statistical analysis is based on chi-square and logit models in combination with a descriptive analysis in order to test the hypothesis of the thesis. Therefore, the empirical analysis has both a quantitative and a qualitative character.</p><p>The result of the study shows that about 87.7 per cent of the surveyed firms have diversi-fied their economic activities during the years 2000-2005. Firms owned by women tend to have diversified to a larger extent compared to men. Further, women show a tendency to be more successful with a higher degree of diversification within the service sector com-pared to men. The enterprises within the production and refinement sectors have, on the other hand, a propensity to focus on traditional agricultural production despite the diversi-fication. A majority of the interviewed firms have received benefits from scope economies, which imply that the firms utilise joint production with shared inputs. The scope econo-mies existed among studied firms previous to the support and there are no significant changes in the economies of scope due to the financial support. Overall, the financial sup-port seems to have had a positive impact on the firms’ economic situation since none of the studied firms has experienced a decline in employment, turnover or income.</p>
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Deciding to Diversify: A Case Study of Seven Virginia Farm BusinessesDickinson, Keith Randolph 11 January 2002 (has links)
Farm enterprise diversification is an important tool for agricultural producers with respect to risk management. As agricultural producers in Virginia look to prepare their farm businesses for the new millennium, they are increasingly considering non-traditional enterprises and activities for their farms. As producers add new enterprises, they encounter challenges to develop new skills and gather adequate information for their new activities. Virginia Cooperative Extension has the task of providing producers with timely and useful research-based information. As both producers and Virginia Cooperative Extension agents and specialists prepare for the challenges of the changing face of agriculture in Virginia in the next generation, a mutual understanding of the key factors and motivations for enterprise diversification is necessary. This study investigates the key factors, motivations, and information needs of seven diversified farms in Virginia. The implications for producers and Cooperative Extension are outlined, and recommendations are made for Virginia Cooperative Extension, lenders, and agribusiness. / Master of Science
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