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Pesticides industry --- Agricultural chemicals --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- Environmental aspects
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Chemical industry --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- Industries chimiques --- Produits chimiques agricoles --- Agricultural chemicals industry. --- Chemical industry. --- Industrie --- Canada.
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"This book is about Navigating Legal Challenges in the Agrochemical Industry"--
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Inorganic fertilizer use across Sub-Saharan Africa is generally considered to be low. Yet, this belief is predicated on the assumption that it is profitable to use rates higher than currently observed. However, there is little rigorous empirical evidence to support this notion. Using a nationally representative panel data set, and with due recognition of the role of risk and uncertainty, this paper empirically estimates the profitability of fertilizer use for maize production in Nigeria. The analysis finds that inorganic fertilizer use in Nigeria is not as low as conventional wisdom suggests. Low marginal physical product and high transportation costs significantly reduce the profitability of fertilizer use. The paper finds evidence that strategies to reduce transportation costs are likely to have a much larger effect on the profitability of fertilizer use than fertilizer subsidies. Apart from reduced transportation costs, other constraints such as timely access to the product; availability of complementary inputs such as improved seeds, irrigation, and credit; as well as good management practices are also necessary for sustained agricultural productivity improvements.
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The Handbook of Cleaner Production comprises a series of reference guides to cleaner production methods, technologies, and practices for key industry sectors. Each volume covers, for each industry sector: * manufacturing technologies * waste management * pollution control and remediation * methods for estimating and reporting emissions * treatment and control technologies * health risk exposures for workers and the wider community * cost data for pollution management * cleaner production and prevention options * safe chemical handling practices Best Practices in the Agrochemi
Agricultural chemicals industry. --- Agricultural chemicals --- Best management practices (Pollution prevention) --- Industrial ecology. --- Environmental aspects. --- Materials management --- BMPs (Pollution prevention) --- Pollution prevention --- Nonpoint source pollution --- Agricultural pollution --- Chemical industry --- Farm supply industries
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Fertilizer use in Africa as compared to other developing regions has been limited. What types of policies and programs are needed to realize the potential benefits of fertilizer in African agriculture? This book summarizes key lessons learned from past efforts to promote fertilizer in Africa, provides an overview of the current state of knowledge concerning technical aspects of fertilizer use in Africa, and presents good practice guidelines for promoting sustainable increases in fertilizer use.
Third World: agricultural and food problems --- Fertilizer industry --- Fertilizers --- Agriculture and state --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- Artificial fertilizers --- Chemical fertilizers --- Crops --- Fertilisers --- Fertilization of soils --- Fertilizers and manures --- Field crops --- Soils --- Agricultural chemicals --- Plants --- Soil amendments --- Soil fertility --- Fertilization --- Nutrition
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Competition --- Antitrust law --- Concurrence --- Droit --- Computer industry --- Business enterprises --- Government business enterprises --- Fertilizer industry --- Aluminum industry and trade --- -Government business enterprises --- -Aluminum industry and trade --- -Fertilizer industry --- -Computer industry --- -Agricultural chemicals industry --- Light metals industry --- Nationalized companies --- Parastatals --- Public enterprises --- State-owned enterprises --- Business organizations --- Businesses --- Companies --- Enterprises --- Firms --- Organizations, Business --- Business --- Electronic industries --- -Business enterprises --- -Electronic industries --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- -Nationalized companies --- Case studies --- European communities --- European Union countries --- Computer industry - European Economic Community countries --- Business enterprises - European Economic Community countries --- Government business enterprises - European Economic Community countries --- Fertilizer industry - European Economic Community countries --- Aluminum industry and trade - European Economic Community countries --- CONCURRENCE --- INDUSTRIELLE
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While the economic returns to using chemical fertilizer in Africa can be large, application rates are low. This study explores whether this is due to missing and imperfect markets. Results based on a panel survey of Ethiopian farmers suggest that while fertilizer markets are not altogether missing in rural Ethiopia, high transport costs, unfavorable climate, price risk, and illiteracy present formidable hurdles to farmer participation. Moreover, the combination of factors that promote or impede effective fertilizer markets differs among locations, making it difficult to find a single production technology that is uniformly profitable - perhaps explaining the inconsistency between field studies finding large returns to fertilizer use in Ethiopia and survey-based studies finding fertilizer use to be uneconomic. The results suggest that households with greater stores of wealth, human capital and authority can overcome these hurdles. The finding offers some encouragement, but also implies a self-enforcing link between low agricultural productivity and poverty, since low-asset households are less able to overcome these problems. The study suggests that the provision of extension services can be effective and that lowering transport costs can raise the intensity of fertilizer use by lowering the cost of fertilizer and boosting the farmgate value of output.
Access to Finance --- Agricultural output --- Agricultural practices --- Agricultural productivity --- Agricultural techniques --- Agriculture --- Cereal crops --- Chemical fertilizer --- Chemical fertilizers --- Climate --- Climate Change and Agriculture --- Climates --- Crop --- Crop area --- Cropland --- Crops --- Crops & Crop Management Systems --- Farmers --- Farming --- Farming households --- Fertilizer --- Fertilizer use --- Fertilizers --- Fertilizers & Agricultural Chemicals Industry --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Industry
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Improving fertilizer recommendations for increased return from fertilizer investments and optimized crop response to fertilizer has been a major area of investigation of IFDC. Since 2008, IFDC through its Natural Resource Management (NRM) Program has partnered with national agricultural research services to undertake research, development and extensive on-farm trials in various agroecosystems in West Africa to develop site specific fertilizer recommendations for crops. Validation trials have been conducted in many countries (Benin (maize, cassava), Burkina (rice, maize and sorghum) Ghana (maize, cocoa and cassava) and Togo (maize and cassava). However, these fertilizer recommendation data remain scattered and most of them need final statistical analysis before they can be fully utilized and/or scaled out. As part of its efforts to improve fertilizer use and efficiency in West Africa, and following the recent adoption of the West African fertilizer recommendation action plan (RAP) by ECOWAS, IFDC has taken technical lead with key partner institutions and experts to build on previous and current fertilizer recommendations for various crops and countries in West Africa for wider uptake by public policy makers and fertilizer industry actors.
Fertilizers --- Fertilizer industry --- Life sciences. --- Agriculture. --- Ecosystems. --- Soil science. --- Soil conservation. --- Life Sciences. --- Soil Science & Conservation. --- Conservation of soil --- Erosion control, Soil --- Soil erosion --- Soil erosion control --- Soils --- Agricultural conservation --- Soil management --- Pedology (Soil science) --- Agriculture --- Earth sciences --- Biocenoses --- Biocoenoses --- Biogeoecology --- Biological communities --- Biomes --- Biotic community ecology --- Communities, Biotic --- Community ecology, Biotic --- Ecological communities --- Ecosystems --- Natural communities --- Ecology --- Population biology --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Control --- Prevention --- Conservation --- Artificial fertilizers --- Chemical fertilizers --- Crops --- Fertilisers --- Fertilization of soils --- Fertilizers and manures --- Field crops --- Agricultural chemicals --- Plants --- Soil amendments --- Soil fertility --- Agricultural chemicals industry --- Fertilization --- Nutrition --- Endangered ecosystems. --- Threatened ecosystems --- Biotic communities --- Nature conservation
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