Plant protection can encompass a number of activities. Weed control in cereals, competitor suppression for pine seedlings, weevil control in lucerne, control of fruit worm in tomatoes, black spot on apples, powdery mildew ...

A government may attempt to add to its resources through explicit forms of taxation such as income tax and through implicit means such as inflationary finance. The first form of finance is perhaps more transparent to the ...

This study examines the criteria used by farmers in their decisions to adopt or reject new sheep breeds. The method used Ethnographic Decision Tree Modelling to elicit decision criteria used by the decision makers when ...

This study holds as is its basic thesis that a well constructed econometric model containing an error-mechanism will provide superior forecasts. Such a model is developed within the methodology espoused by David Hendry and ...

Agricultural marketing is frequently distinguished from marketing as it is described in the business literature because agricultural marketing theory focuses on policy, distribution channel, and efficiency issues, and has ...

New Zealand's commercial property market has historically experienced unspectacular levels of growth. This relatively stable, sometimes dormant market was the result of the high level of protectionism imposed over the ...

This paper examines the major factors expected to influence the reservation wage setting behaviour of unemployed workers. The hypotheses examined in this thesis are: 1. That income earned in the underground economy leads ...

This thesis extends the existing literature on the real wage gap initiated by Bruno and Sachs' (1985) seminal work "The Economics of Worldwide Stagflation." Its primary contribution is an extensive sensitivity analysis of ...

A room scheduling system has been implemented to assist the timetabler with the allocation of rooms to subjects offered by the University. The timetable schedules are prepared for the undergraduate degrees and diplomas. ...