agriculture

Time Series: Basic Analysis

Background This post is the first in a series of upcoming blog that tries to describe application of a lesser used technique in econometrics – time series analysis. I make extensive use of datasets available in several R packages – mostly the tsibbledata package.

Correlation and pathway analysis with path diagrams

Background Correlation study is one of the most extensively yet not fully appreciated topic. It forms the backbone of several other inferential studies. Path analysis, on a similar note, is a derived technique that explains directed dependencies among a set of variables.

Introductory agricultural economics and extension: Lecture notes

Here are the links to lecture notes that I prepared for tutoring preparation classes of Agricultural Economics. Download by clicking on the links below: Introduction to agricultural economics, demand and supply, market competition and price Agribusiness: Introduction, scope and importance Prime minister agriculture modernization project PMAMP program profile as of 2075-76 Poverty and food security Primary and secondary data OVOP and ODOP program Cooperatives and status in Nepal Crop cutting

Valentine wheat

Private lives of wheat Wheat are romantics! Hopeless romantics – not hapless by any means, though. 😄 It is the sesaon of dancing Wheat. Beginning with contacting the soil first this November and since then, wheat has been challenging. Challenging the sod early on, micromanging the cosm surrounding the biosphere, mobilizing all it could get from pretty much listless ground.

Seed growth rate of major cultivated crops

Context Table 1: Seed growth rate of common cultivated crop species Crop Number of cultivars Seed growth rate_mean (mg per seed per day) Seed growth rate_range (mg per seed per day) Effective filling period_mean (day) Effective filling period_range (day) Maximum size_mean (mg per seed) Maximum size_range (mg per seed) Cereals: Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.

World production and grain composition of major cultivated species

Context Out of crops raised for their seed/grains (listed under 35 species, by FAO; FAOSTAT, 2014), only 22 species are produced in substantial amounts. Species of graminae and leguminosae families alone account for about 85 percent of the total grain production.

Maize seed value chain

Introduction There are a great deal of influencers along the chain of generating finished seed material from a produce offered by farmers. As we discussed earlier in this post, the process takes on a fairly complex pathway while certification and processing requirements are being met.

Seed multiplication ratio and its significance in production planning

Context SMR of Cereal crops SMR of vegetable crops Table 1: Seed multiplication ratio of common vegetable crops SN Crop Seed rate (per ha) Seed yield Seed Multiplication Ratio 1 Broad leaf mustard 600 600 1000.

Seed Business: Process Management Guide

The problem Seed business is a multifaceted undertake. Although most businesses suffer strong feedback effects, seed business are more markedly left with those than most others. Let us refer to a simple case description to recapitulate just how pronounced it can be, and we are talking about the success in a long term venture.

Bean: Description of Agromorphology

Introduction Agromorphology constitutes what’s observable and that which is economic. Because agriculture has important connection to economy, this connection is at best rung everywhere though what agriculture reveres and, and when talked modestly, relies on: Crops. Unsurprisingly, finer details that agriculture touches upon to make ends met (processes and resources involved along the Production-Consumption chain) are convoluted.