Agriculture

Price Stabilization Policy on Staple Food in Indonesia

Tahlim Sudaryanto
INTRODUCTION Food price stability is one of major elements on food security policy.  From the consumer side high food price provides undesirable impact to consumer access to sufficient and quality diet. Accelerated food prices also increase the number of households who are below the poverty...
Country: Indonesia Topic: Agriculture
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BIOichar: Biochar-Based Organic Fertilizer

Ilani Zuraihah Ibrahim, Nor Fadhilah Abdul Halim, Theeba Manickam
In general, organic fertilizers have low nutrient content. Solid organic fertilizers such as compost and manures have slow release rates, requiring soil microorganism to break down the materials into chemical forms that plants can use. Approximately only half or less of the nutrients are released...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Agriculture
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Vietnam’s Rice Policy Review

Tran Cong Thang, Vu Huy Phuc
ABSTRACT Rice production plays an important role in Vietnam’s agricultural development. In recent years, although rice cultivation area maintains stable, the yield still keeps increasing year by year. This growth brings higher output, which does not only guarantee national food security but...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Agriculture
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Decision 68/2013/QĐ-TTG to Reduce the Losses in Agriculture

Tran Cong Thang
OBJECTIVE The decisison is issued on 14th November 2013. This decisison provides credit policies to reduce postharvest losses in agricultural production. The decisison aims at improving agricultural mechanization, apply technology in harvesting in order to reduce losses and increase income for...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Agriculture
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Vietnam Sustainable Coffee Plan Till 2020 and Vision to 2030

Tran Cong Thang, Vu Huy Phuc
Source: http://thukyluat.vn/vb/quyet-dinh-3417-qd-bnn-tt-phe-duyet-de-an-phat-trien-nganh-ca-phe-ben-vung-den-nam-2020-45b50.html   INTRODUCTION The main objective of Vietnam’s sustainable coffee plan and vision is to build Vietnam's coffee sector development toward...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Agriculture
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