Meeting Environmental Goals Efficiently on a Farm-Level Basis

The agriculture sector in India is beset with twin limitations of shrinking cultivable area and absence of major technological breakthroughs in the recent past. In such a situation, a judicious management of the farm in the form of adjustment in a crop portfolio can be quite useful to maximise output and minimise wastage of resources. This article seeks to examine whether a diversified crop portfolio makes the farmers more efficient using farm-level survey data collected from geographically diverse areas of Assam, a state in northeast India. The results of a stochastic production frontier analysis show that adoption of a diversified crop portfolio across crops and seasons makes the farmers more efficient in cultivation by helping them reduce weather-induced damages to crops and reap better returns from farming. This efficiency-enhancing effect of crop diversification is found to be heterogeneous among the regions. However, too much diversification reduces the efficiency of farmers. The results have important implications for Assam where floods cause extensive damage to crops every year. Moreover, access to extension services and government support are found to make the farmers more efficient. On the other hand, fixed-rent form of tenancy reduces efficiency of the farmers while household size has a positive impact on the same.

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Factors influencing farm level use of futures and options in commodity marketing

Agribusiness ◽

10.1002/1520-6297(199011)6:6<621::aid-agr2720060608>3.0.co;2-e ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 6 (6) ◽

pp. 621-631 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Larry D. Makus ◽

Biing-Hwan Lin ◽

John Carlson ◽

Rose Krebill-Prather

Keyword(s):

Farm Level ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

Futures And Options

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Utilizing Topographic and Soil Features to Improve Rating for Farm‐Level Insurance Products

American Journal of Agricultural Economics ◽

10.1111/ajae.12218 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Francis Tsiboe ◽

Jesse Tack

Keyword(s):

Farm Level ◽

Soil Features

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Farm-level pathways to food security: beyond missing markets and irrational peasants

Agriculture and Human Values ◽

10.1007/s10460-021-10234-w ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sidney Madsen

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Farm Level ◽

Missing Markets

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The effects of greening the supplier and innovation on environmental performance and competitive advantage

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management ◽

10.4102/jtscm.v7i1.121 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Unine Van den Berg ◽

Jean-Pierre Labuschagne ◽

Hugo Van den Berg

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Competitive Advantage ◽

Environmental Performance ◽

Competitive Advantages ◽

Latent Constructs ◽

Confirmatory Factor ◽

Environmental Goals ◽

The City ◽

Strength Of Association ◽

Managerial Innovation

Companies in South Africa should realise the important influence of greening their suppliers and of innovation to achieve environmental goals and competitive advantages. In order to prove this, a questionnaire survey was conducted with 75 companies from 11 industries in the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality region, South Africa. A confirmatory factor analysis was done, followed by bivariate correlations to determine the strength of association between the latent constructs. Correlations between greening the supplier, innovation, environmental performance and competitive advantages were done. The research found that a green innovative process had a significant effect on environmental performance. Green managerial innovation further had a significant correlation with competitive advantage. The primary result of the study indicated that all the constructs positively related to each other, meaning that greening suppliers, by means of green innovation, leads to an enhanced environmental performance and to competitive advantages.

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Evaluation of the Effective Material Use from the View of EU Environmental Policy Goals

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14164759 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (16) ◽

pp. 4759

Author(s):

Marcela Taušová ◽

Katarína Čulková ◽

Peter Tauš ◽

Lucia Domaracká ◽

Andrea Seňová

Keyword(s):

Cluster Analysis ◽

Linear Dependence ◽

Energy Savings ◽

Tax Burden ◽

Eu Countries ◽

Eu Member States ◽

Average Value ◽

Negative Results ◽

Policy Goals ◽

Environmental Goals

Humanity is dependent on natural resources. Use and productivity of these resources plays an important role in energy savings and circular economy. The goal of this contribution is to evaluate productivity of resources in the frame of EU countries. Single analysis deals with data from the publicly available portal database and collected data were processed in the statistical software JMP. The trend of development and analysis of variability and linear dependence helped to create cluster analysis and comparison of the EU countries. The results from the view of average value of the indicator registered the growth, and from the view of variability the statistically important differences were verified for EU member states. Some pairs of indicators recorded positive, while some pairs recorded negative linear dependence. Cluster analysis shows two groups of countries—the first one with positive results, having the lowest tax burden in the case of energy taxes and environment, and the second one with negative results, having the highest tax burden of environmental and energy policy. The results are useful for a proper setting of energy and environmental goals that can increase the effectiveness of resource productivity in the countries studied.

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