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The pesticide conspiracy
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ISBN: 0385138847 0385133847 Year: 1978 Publisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday,

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The Community fertilizer industry
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ISBN: 9282558711 9789282558713 Year: 1985 Volume: vol *366


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Industries chimiques
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Year: 1999 Publisher: [Ottawa] : Statistique Canada,

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Navigating legal challenges in the agrochemical industry
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ISBN: 0841298734 Year: 2020 Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : American Chemical Society,

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"This book is about Navigating Legal Challenges in the Agrochemical Industry"--


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Is Increasing Inorganic Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa a Profitable Proposition? : Evidence from Nigeria
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Year: 2015 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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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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Best practices in the agrochemical industry
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ISBN: 1784023396 128295590X 9786612955907 1437778267 1437778259 9781437778250 9780080964461 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/William Andrew,

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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

Fertilizer use in African agriculture : lessons learned and good practice guidelines
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ISBN: 082136880X 0821368818 9780821368800 9780821368817 9786610765812 128076581X Year: 2007 Publisher: Washington, DC : World Bank,

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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.


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Comparaison de la situation concurrentielle des entreprises privées et publiques dans trois secteurs industriels de la CEE.
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ISBN: 9282558967 9789282558966 Year: 1986 Volume: vol *471 Publisher: Luxembourg : Office des publications officielles des communautés européennes = Office for official publications of the European communities = OPOCE,


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Incomplete Markets and Fertilizer Use : Evidence From Ethiopia
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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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.


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Improving the Profitability, Sustainability and Efficiency of Nutrients Through Site Specific Fertilizer Recommendations in West Africa Agro-Ecosystems : Volume 2
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ISBN: 3319587927 3319587919 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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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.

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