Economic Incentives and Comparative Advantage in Indonesian Food Crop Production

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst, 1993 - 108 pagini
Production and policy trends for food crops. Methodology for measuring economic incentives and comparative advantage. Data sources and general assumptions. Analysis of incentives and government intervention. Regional comparative advantage of food crop.
 

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Pagina 15 - ... Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo, 1993. Pp. 240. ISBN 9283321294 Economic Incentives and Comparative Advantage in Indonesian Food Crop Production This report examines trends in government policies and production of five major food crops (rice, corn, soybeans, sugar and cassava) and analyses the effects of government input-output pricing policies on domestic production incentives for these food crops. It also assesses their relative comparative advantage under three trade regimes: import...
Pagina 99 - ... Margarita H. Debuque, and Nobuhiko Fuwa. 2000. The Political Economy of Rural Development in the Philippines since the 1960s. World Bank, Washington, DC Processed. Bautista, Romeo M. 1987. Production Incentives in Philippine Agriculture: Effects of Trade and Exchange Rate Policies. Research Report 59. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. . 1990. Rapid Agricultural Growth Is Not Enough: The Philippines, 196580. Paper prepared for the Conference on Agriculture on the Road...
Pagina 94 - The basic strategy for rice should be to maintain balanced growth in domestic production and demand at long-term world prices. Sustained divergences from a balanced growth path may have particularly large costs in the case of rice because Indonesia is a major actor (or potential actor) in the world rice market.
Pagina 6 - Summary of financial costs and returns of corn production, by technology, region, and trade regime, 1986 74 33. Summary of economic efficiency in corn production, by technology, region, and trade regime, 1986 76 34. Break-even yield and border prices in corn production, by technology, region, and trade regime, 1986 79 35. Summary of financial costs and returns of soybean production, by technology, region, and trade regime, 1986 81 36.
Pagina 40 - ... crop. In most developing countries, social or economic profitability deviates from private profitability because of distortions in the factor and output markets, externalities, and government policy interventions that tend to distort relative prices. Comparative advantage or...
Pagina 49 - In the simplest case, the shadow wage rate aims at measuring nothing more than the opportunity cost of labor: that is, the marginal output of labor forgone elsewhere because of its use in the project.
Pagina 6 - Summary of economic efficiency in soybean meal and oil production, by technology, region, and trade regime, 1986 86 38. Break-even yield and border prices in soybean production, by technology, region, and trade regime, 1986 88 39. Summary of financial costs and returns of cassava production, by technology, region, and trade regime, 1986 90 40.
Pagina 40 - ... and comparing it with the social or economic opportunity costs of producing, processing, transporting, handling, and marketing an incremental unit of the commodity.
Pagina 21 - ... of rice production, farm income, potential inflationary effects, and the costs to the government of supporting the floor price. The floor price is implemented by the grain stabilization agency, Badan Urusan Logistic (BULOG), which procures rice in major rice-producing regions.
Pagina 14 - If corn productivity continues to improve with the adoption of pest-resistant, open-pollinated or hybrid varieties, it could become competitive as an export crop. Soybean production, despite rapid expansion, is not efficient because modern technology has not been adapted to Indonesia"s agroclimatic conditions.

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