Knowledge in agricultural project
Project Report On Hybrid Weed Remover
Project Report On Hybrid Weed Remover by Students of Siddaganga Institute Of Technology
Mohammed Zafar
Project Report On Multi Nozzle Sprayer
Project Report On Multi Nozzle Sprayer, by Students of Siddaganga Institute Of Technology.
Agricultural Meteorology
• Applications of meteorology to agricultural cropping systems, forestry, fisheries, and agricultural land use and livestock management • Development of agromet services of Members by transfer of knowledge and methodology and by providing advice on various subjects; • Methods, procedures and techniques for the provision of meteorological services to agriculture (all sectors); • Formulation of data requirements for agricultural purposes; • Introduction of effective methods for disseminating agromet information, advice and warnings to agriculture by mass media; • Meteorological aspects of drought and desertification.
Shantha Kumar . V
Agricultural Production Economics
Chapter 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Economics Defined.................................................................................................2 1.2 The Logic of Economic Theory.............................................................................. 2 1.3 Economic Theory as Abstraction............................................................................ 3 1.4 Economic Theory Versus Economic Model........................................................... 3 1.5 Representing Economic Relationships ................................................................... 4 1.6 Consumption Versus Production Economics ......................................................... 4 1.7 Microeconomics Versus Macroeconomics.............................................................5 1.8 Statics Versus Dynamics ........................................................................................ 6 1.9 Economics Versus Agricultural Economics ........................................................... 7 1.10 Agricultural Production Economics ....................................................................... 7 1.11 The Assumptions of Pure Competition................................................................... 8 1.12 Why Retain the Purely Competitive Model.......................................................... 10 1.13 Concluding Comments .........................................................................................10 Questions for Thought and Class Discussion ....................................................... 12 References............................................................................................................. 12 Chapter 2. Production With One Variable Input............................................................. 13 2.1 What Is a Production Function ............................................................................. 14 2.2 Fixed Versus Variable Inputs and the Length of Run .......................................... 17 2.3 The Law of Diminishing Returns ......................................................................... 19 2.4 Marginal and Average Physical Product .............................................................. 21 2.5 MPP and the Marginal Product Function ............................................................. 22 2.6 A Neoclassical Production Function .................................................................... 26 2.7 MPP and APP for the Neoclassical Function ....................................................... 28 2.8 Sign, Slope and Curvature .................................................................................... 29 2.9 A Single-Input Production Elasticity.................................................................... 33 2.10 Elasticities of Production for a Neoclassical Production Function....................... 35 2.11 Further Topics on the Elasticity of Production..................................................... 36 2.12 Concluding Comments .........................................................................................37 Problems and Exercises ........................................................................................ 37 Chapter 3. Profit Maximization with One Input and One Output................................. 39 3.1 Total Physical Product Versus Total Value of the Product .................................. 40 3.2 Total Factor or Resource Cost .............................................................................. 41 3.3 Value of the Marginal Product and Marginal Factor Cost.................................... 41 3.4 Equating VMP and MFC ..................................................................................... 43 3.5 Calculating the Exact Level of Input Use to Maximize Output or Profits ........... 45 3.6 General Conditions for Profit Maximization ........................................................ 51 3.7 Necessary and Sufficient Conditions.................................................................... 52 3.8 The Three Stages of the Neoclassical Production Functiom ................................ 52 3.9 Further Topics on States of Production ................................................................ 56 3.10 The Imputed Value of an Additional Unit of an Input ......................................... 56