Beyond ‘get big or get out’: Female farmers' responses to the cost-price squeeze of Australian agriculture

2020 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Lucie Newsome
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2020 ◽  
pp. 73-75
Author(s):  
B.M. Bazrov ◽  
T.M. Gaynutdinov

The selection of technological bases is considered before the choice of the type of billet and the development of the route of the technological process. A technique is proposed for selecting the minimum number of sets of technological bases according to the criterion of equality in the cost price of manufacturing the part according to the principle of unity and combination of bases at this stage. Keywords: part, surface, coordinating size, accuracy, design and technological base, labor input, cost price. [email protected]


1972 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-194
Author(s):  
N. D. Novikova ◽  
E. N. Arnoldova ◽  
N. P. Bogatova ◽  
Z. V. Bobrova
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Author(s):  
Julius Juma Okello ◽  
Ruth M. Okello ◽  
Edith Ofwona-Adera

In many developing countries smallholder farmer participation in agricultural input and output markets continues to be constrained by lack of market information. Actors in most developing country markets operate under conditions of information asymmetry which increases the costs of doing business and locks out smallholder farmers. Attempts to address this problem are currently focusing on the use of ICT technologies to provide market information and link farmers to markets. This study examines the awareness and use of one such technology – mobile phones. It finds for male and female smallholder farmers in Kenya a high level of awareness and widespread use of mobile phones, mainly for social purposes. This study further finds that a low level of education, the cost of mobile phone airtime recharge vouchers and the lack of electricity for recharging phone batteries are the major impediments to the ownership and use of mobile phones, with female farmers more constrained than males. A high awareness of mobile phones among smallholder farmers presents an opportunity to strengthen smallholder farmers’ market linkage. However constraints to the usage of mobile phones will need to be addressed. The study findings indicate priorities for policymakers dealing with the specifics of ICT adoption as a tool to promote rural viability via rationalization of Kenyan agricultural markets.


2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 2044-2053
Author(s):  
Wenge Zhang ◽  
Li Tan ◽  
Huijuan Yin ◽  
Xinwei Guo

Abstract A water rights trading scheme in China is currently in its initial stage of development, but is without a complete pricing mechanism. This paper proposes a pricing model for transfers of water rights from agriculture to industry in water-deficient areas of China. Both the cost price and the earnings price are considered and incorporated into the model. The cost price includes construction costs, operation and maintenance costs, renewal and reconstruction costs, and economic compensation for ecological damage. The earnings price is calculated according to a reasonable return coefficient and the difference in economic value of the water resources to the buyer and seller. The value of water resources was estimated based on emergy theory in accordance with the principle of mutual benefits equilibrium. This pricing model is then applied to the transfer of surplus water rights arising from agricultural water conservation schemes to industrial uses in the Southbank Ordos Irrigation Zone of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The results indicate that this pricing model could provide technical support to the scientific and reasonable pricing of water rights transactions in water-deficient areas and that it could play an active role in promoting the healthy development of future water markets.


2013 ◽  
Vol 371 ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Vadim Boguslavskiy ◽  
Tatiana Ivchenko ◽  
Viktor Polchenko ◽  
Iliya Navka

The low workability of special brands corrosion-proof, heat resisting and high-resistance steels and alloys, widespread in details and nodes of modern machines, causes high labour input and the cost price of their manufacture. In this connection probes of possibilities of heightening of capacity and lowering of the cost price of handling of these materials at the expense of improvement of working conditions of the cutting instrument and, in particular, at the expense of application of various technological cutting fluid (TCF). High temperatures in a workpiece range, arising because of low heat conduction of intractable materials, define necessity of probe of the temperature phenomena for a cutting zone. The further development of a technique of definition of temperatures is of interest for these aspects of materials in a cutting zone at use ТСF and the account of their influence on a choice of optimum conditions of cutting. Researches of limitations on the roughness of the treated surface and cutting temperature are executed, in-use during optimization of cutting regimes at finish turning stainless materials, including with the use of technological cutting fluid. Analytical dependences of optimum cutting serve and speed from the parameters of finish turning process are set, providing the quantitative estimation of possibilities of the cutting regimes increase due to application of TCF. The estimation of efficiency of TCF application is executed on the basis of coefficient of increase of the treatment productivity.


2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jüri Olt ◽  
Keio Küüt ◽  
Risto Ilves ◽  
Arne Küüt

This study discusses practical collection methods of cereal harvesting costs in different agricultural holdings in order to effectively manage combine harvester fleets, make economically reasoned decisions on the exploitation of combine harvesters, reduce harvesting costs and consequently the cost price of cereals. For this purpose, the author used work results of combine harvesters monitored by three randomly selected agricultural holdings, collected practical information on harvesting, analysed this information and provided assessments on the effectiveness of their combine harvester fleet. Evidently, not all combine harvester fleets and combines operate with the same efficiency, as their harvesting costs are different.


1987 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-76
Author(s):  
P. R. W. Hudson

Two earlier articles have considered the cost-price squeeze facing the Australian woolgrower, and the solutions being sought to reduce wool harvesting costs. The first concentrated on the improvements to existing shearing methods, especially the shearing mechanism itself. The second summarised the progress of a programme aiming to automate shearing. This concluding article considers the research which has been undertaken to evaluate chemical and biological methods of wool harvesting.


1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 326-328
Author(s):  
M. A. Evsyukova ◽  
V. S. Evsyukov ◽  
E. V. Bryzgalova
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