scholarly journals The Effect of Agricultural Extension Access on The Performance of Smallholder Sugarcane Farmers in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-159
Author(s):  
Rokhani Rokhani ◽  
Ahmad Asrofi ◽  
Ad Hariyanto Adi ◽  
Ahmad Fatikhul Khasan ◽  
Mohammad Rondhi
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Land Productivity ◽  
Family Labor ◽  
Agricultural Extension Service ◽  
Input Use ◽  
Net Value Added

Agricultural extension plays a crucial role in the Indonesian Agricultural Revitalization Program for the 2005-2025 periods, where sugarcane is one of the fourteen priority crops. The provision of an agricultural extension was aimed to increase the income and productivity of sugarcane farmers. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of agricultural extension access on smallholder sugarcane farmers' performance in Indonesia. This study used data from the 2014 Indonesian Sugarcane Farm Household Survey, consisting of 8,831 farmers. This study employed propensity score matching to estimate the effect of access to an agricultural extension on several outcome variables. These variables were gross value-added (GVA), net value added (NVA), labor productivity (LP), land productivity (LDP), net income (NI), and remuneration of family labor (ROFL). The result shows that having access to an agricultural extension increases GVA by 40.5%, NVA by 40.3%, labor productivity by 42.8%, and NI by 40.2%. However, access to agricultural extension insignificantly affects ROFL due to the differences in family working units. Also, farmers with Agricultural Extension access have 13.7% lower land productivity than non-Agricultural Extension farmers since the former has lower input use intensity than the latter. These results suggest that providing agricultural extension service is adequate to improve sugarcane farmers' economic performance.

scholarly journals Smallholder farmers willingness to pay for privatized agricultural extension services in Tigray National Regional State, Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Kidane Tesfay Gebreegziabher ◽  
Gidey Kidu Mezgebo
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Pay ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Agricultural Extension Service

This study assessed farmers’ willingness to pay for privatization of agricultural extension services and examined factors that determine willingness to pay for those services. Multistage sampling procedure was used in selecting 240 households. Data were collected using household survey, focus group discussion and key informant interview tools. Data were analyzed using percentage and logit model. Results showed that 58% of the respondents were willing to pay for the privatization of agricultural extension services. Farm size, age, family size, credit access, frequency of extension contact and income were significantly influenced farmers’ willingness to pay for privatization of agricultural extension services. Privatization of agricultural extension services encourages graduates of agricultural sciences to launch consultancy firms and this engenders professional entrepreneurship. Number of visits, socioeconomic, and institutional factors must be given emphasis for privatizing the agricultural extension service in Ethiopia. Moreover, government should launch privatization parallel to the public agricultural extension services Keywords: Agricultural extension service, willingness, privatization. Ethiopia

scholarly journals Selected Reliable Indicators of Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in the European Union

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 46-49
Author(s):  
Zsuzsanna Tóth-Naár ◽  
Tamás Antal Naár ◽  
Ádám Pál Sőreg ◽  
Sergey Vinogradov
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Value Added ◽  
External Input ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Land Productivity ◽  
Sustainable Land Management ◽  
Input Use ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract The concept of sustainability and the feasibility options have been discussed in specialized literature sources for about three decades only. Sustainable development has several definitions; it is defined both in narrow and wider sense. The definition of sustainability is regarded inevitable because the sustainability of agriculture can be interpreted only within this fixed conceptual framework. Our study primarily deals with issues of sustainability in farming practices being specific to countries and regions of the European Union. In frames of the current research we provide the analysis of the ability to produce value added within agricultural sector, the intensity of farming, the non-renewable external input use, farm structure as well as the European-level relations being directed towards the preservation of land productivity.

scholarly journals Women’s Economic Empowerment in Vietnam: Performance and Constraints of Female-Led Manufacturing SMEs

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
MinhTam Bui ◽  
Trinh Q. Long
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Formal Sector ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Average Value ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Medium Enterprises

This paper identifies whether there was a performance difference among micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) led by men and by women in Vietnam during the period 2005–2013 and aims to provide explanations for the differences, if any, in various performance indicators. The paper adopts a quantitative approach using a firm-level panel dataset in the manufacturing sector in 10 provinces/cities in Vietnam in five waves from 2005 to 2013. Fixed effect models are estimated to examine the influence of firm variables and demographic, human capital characteristics of owners/managers on firms’ value added, labor productivity and employment creation. We found that men led MSMEs did not outperform those led by women on average. Although the average value added was lower for female-led firms in the informal sector, the opposite was true in the formal sector where women tend to lead medium-size firms with higher value added and labor productivity. The performance disparity was more envisaged across levels of formality and less clear from a gender perspective. Moreover, while firms owned by businessmen seemed to create more jobs, firms owned by women had a higher share of female employees. No significant difference in business constraints faced by women and by men was found.

scholarly journals Analysis of the development of the economic account for agriculture of the Czech Republic

2012 ◽  
Vol 52 (No. 5) ◽  
pp. 205-208
Author(s):  
J. Klíma ◽  
M. Palát Sn
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Plant Production ◽  
Reference Period ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Production Output ◽  
Net Value Added

The paper is focused on assessing the development of the economic account for agriculture of the Czech Republic in the selected reference period 1998–2003. There were evaluated effects of the particular types of the economic accounts. Methods of regression and correlation analysis and development trends were used for the mathematical-statistical analysis. The plant production output similarly as the output of agricultural industry show an increasing tendency since the period under investigation reaching a peak about 2001 and in next years decreasing in difference to the gross value added at basic prices and the net value added at basic prices which shows an increasing trend throughout the period. Both animal output and the agricultural services output show a decreasing trend reaching a minimum about 2002. 

Bridging Gender Gaps in Provision of Agricultural Extension Service Using ICT

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Sanga ◽  
V. J. Kalungwizi ◽  
C. P. Msuya
Keyword(s):  
Group Discussion ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Women Farmers ◽  
Extension Service ◽  
Advisory Panel ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Agricultural Extension Service ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Radio Programs ◽  
Important Evidence

This article was designed to present the assessment of the effectiveness of radio - based, impact driven smallholder farmer extension service system provided by FVR to enhance accessibility of extension services to women and men in the project areas of Tanzania. Specifically, this paper assessed women and men farmers' access to ICT and factors influencing the utilization of ICT to deliver agricultural information and knowledge. The paper used data from impact assessment survey of the project conducted between April 2012 and June 2012. These data were complemented by focus group discussion involving members of gender advisory panel that had been established in the selected project sites. Quantitative data were analyzed to yield frequencies and percentages. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis. Even though ownership of mobile phones and radio was higher among women in all study areas both men and women farmers' had almost the same percentage in accessibility to agricultural extension information. The factors that affected women and men farmers to get quality agricultural information via these ICT tools were namely: poor radio signal reception, power outrage and poor timing of radio programs among others. This is important evidence that careful use of ICT can reduce gender imbalance in agricultural extension services and information delivery.

Agricultural Extension and the Campaign to Assimilate the Native Americans of Wisconsin, 1914–1932

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 473-502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Firkus
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Intensive Agriculture ◽  
Extension Programs ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Agricultural Extension Service ◽  
Kinship Ties

Congress founded the Agricultural Extension Service (AES) in the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 to disseminate agricultural research to individual farmers. In some states the AES also worked to encourage Native Americans to adopt sedentary intensive agriculture and all aspects of assimilation connected with that occupation. J. F. Wojta, AES administrator in Wisconsin from 1914 to 1940, took a deep interest in Indian farmers and used the power and resources of his office to instruct Native Americans. Ho-Chunks, Menominees, Ojibwes, and Oneidas in Wisconsin adopted or rejected these social, economic, and political assimilation efforts during the Progressive Era according to their own circumstances and goals. The experience of Wisconsin tribes with the state's agricultural extension programs illustrates different ways that Native peoples tried to benefit from modern government services while maintaining their own culture and kinship ties.

scholarly journals KOMPARASI KINERJA KEUANGAN PERBANKAN SYARIAH BERBASIS PENDEKATAN LABA RUGI DAN NILAI TAMBAH

IKONOMIKA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Yulianti Saifudin ◽  
Yayan Pribadi
Keyword(s):  
Value Added ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Financial Ratios ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Financial Ratio ◽  
Islamic Bank ◽  
Income Statement ◽  
Net Profit ◽  
Productive Assets

Abstract-The objectives of this study are to analyze the differences in financial performance of Islamic bank by using the income statement approach and value added approach on financial ratios. Financial ratios used consisted of ROA, ROE, the ratio between the total net income by total earning assets, NPM, and  BOPO. The Object used in this study are listed Islamic Bank at Bank Indonesia. Population of this research are the financial statements of Islamic Banks, while the sample used was the financial statements for 2010-2014 for each income statement and the value added statement.  Analysis tool used to prove the hypothesis of this study is an independent sample t-test.The results showed that the average financial ratio (ROA, ROE, net profit ratio of productive assets, and NPM) there are significant differences between the Income Statement and Value Added Statement, while the BOPO ratio between the Income Statement and the Value Added Statement there is not a difference. 

scholarly journals The Value of a Firm: Asymmetric Information in Economic Value Added Measurement

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
V.O. Fedorovich ◽  
T.V. Fedorovich
Keyword(s):  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Economic Value Added ◽  
Corporate Value ◽  
Reliable Measure ◽  
Strategic Performance ◽  
Market Values ◽  
Ultimate Objective

Subject. The value of a firm is an unbiased and reliable measure of operations and strategic performance of an enterprise. Objectives. The study analyzes a combination of approaches based on the book and market values as part of the information asymmetry theory, which points out the comprehensive integrated indicator, such as a firm's value as an unbiased and the most understandable metric for stakeholders, shareholders, would-be investors and managers. Methods. The study is based on methods of induction, deduction and general cognition, methods of logic, statistical and correlation analyses. Results. It is advisable to reduce the information asymmetry for principals and agents by updating the Economic Value Added (EVA) and derivative indicators, such as CFROI, CVA, RCF and EM, which are integrated into consolidated income, earnings before taxes and structure of capital owned by subsidiaries and associates and share of capital invested in the development of property portfolios of corporations. Subsidiaries and associates contribute to the consolidated net income, being financially accountable for the capital involved. Conclusions and Relevance. To forecast the value of a firm, economic-mathematical modeling is advisable, since it will ensure an unbiased evaluation of the firm’s position within a three to five year time horizon and help to reduce the information asymmetry, which requires special tools to substantiate the increment in EVA and corporate capitalization. The ultimate objective of research provides for an unbiased integrated value, such as corporate value of a business, which decreases the information asymmetry for principals and agents.

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