Farm management techniques and their relevance to administration, research and extension in agricultural development: Part 2—An appraisal of their potential in less developed countries

1984 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tahir Rehman ◽  
Andrew Dorward
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Management Techniques

scholarly journals Supply Response by Traditional and Commercial Producers of Basic Grains in LDCs

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jose Alvarez ◽  
Chris O. Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Technological Advance ◽  
Food Crops ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
Land Utilization ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Price Fluctuations ◽  
Home Consumption

Traditional farms can play an important role in the agricultural development process [4, 6, 7, 8]. Less developed countries (LDCs) emphasize production and productivity increases for basic grains by relying on modern yield-increasing technology [2]. Technological advance, however, may produce diverging results; productivity may increase while production stagnates or declines. Due to both major seasonal and cyclical price fluctuations in basic grains and income limitations, traditional farmers in LDCs choose, quite rationally, to grow only enough of some food crops for home consumption. Yet policy makers often seek to increase the marketed supply of food crops and to determine possible changes in land utilization to meet that objective.

Sustainable Agricultural Development in Less Developed Countries

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45
Author(s):  
Rabi K. Maskey
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Farm Management ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Resource Poor

Agriculture is the basic economic activity of the world's poorest countries, and the sustainability of this sector is vital for their overall development. Appropriate agricultural policies in conjunction with research and technology could play an important role in protecting and promoting sustainable agricultural development. In this paper, it is argued that agriculture-related policies should be geared towards providing economic incentives to resource-poor farmers, enabling them to improve their agricultural productivity, income and livelihood without causing environmental degradation. In this regard, research and technology development should be farmer-centred, practical and economical. Emphasis must be placed on raising yields, conserving soils, and lowering costs through improved farm management.

'Restrictive Business Practices', report by the UNCTAD Secretariat, April 1972.

1973 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-316
Author(s):  
G. M. Radhu
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Less Developed Countries ◽  
International Firms ◽  
The World ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Financial Power ◽  
Administrative Structures

The report by the UNCTAD Secretariat, submitted to the third session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development held in Santiago (Chile) in April 1972, deals with the restrictive business practices of the multinational corporations with special reference to the export interests of the developing countries. Since the world war, there has been a tremendous growth in the size and activities of many international firms. They have grown from the national corporation to the multidivisional corporation and now to the multinational corporation. With each step they acquired greater financial power, better technology and know-how and more complex administrative structures. They have subsidiaries and branches all over the world. In the course of the sixties they became one of the dominant factors in determining the pattern of world trade. At the same time, their increasingly restrictive business practices, which tended to adversely affect world trade and the export interest of less developed countries, attracted the attention of the governments both in developed and less developed countries and serious concern was shown at the international level. It is against this background that the UNCTAD undertook the study on the question of restrictive business practices.

Congestion Management in Restructured Power Systems with Economic and Technical Considerations

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Manikandan R ◽  
Kavya P ◽  
Shalini R
Keyword(s):  
Power Systems ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Congestion Management ◽  
Power Demand ◽  
Independent System ◽  
Deregulated Power System ◽  
Independent System Operator ◽  
System Operator ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Technical Considerations

In this paper, restructuring of monopolistic power systems is inevitable in this day and age to cope up with the radical growth of power demand. In developed countries restructuring is already in place while developing countries are getting accustomed to it. Above and beyond the benefits to customers in terms of economy and quality, there are several challenges prevailing particularly in transmission while exercising deregulation. The foremost challenging task of Independent System Operator (ISO) is managing the transmission line congestion in a deregulated power system. In most of the congestion management techniques, only the economic aspects are considered. The minimum voltage derivation for electronic industries and acceptable voltage derivation for high power applications are considered with suitable weighting factors in the objective function.

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