...EGERTON UNIVERSITY. Bachelor Of Agribusiness Managenent Rationale Students trained in this programme are to assume leading roles of public and private commerce of agricultural and food products. These organizations contribute greatly toward the economic well being of the country. Students that select the Agribusiness specialization will focus on the vertical integration of agribusiness and trade. These specializations provide students with the skills to examine domestic and global consumer interests and how they impact the demand for food and agriculture products. Students that select these specializations will have a basic foundation in business, marketing, finance, and accounting. They will specialize in marketing intelligence for agribusiness by supplementing basic marketing research with coursework that applies marketing research techniques to agribusiness. In addition, students will use marketing research techniques to provide a client with a marketing plan. The internship will provide student experience in the marketplace by applying marketing research techniques and working with clients to solve real agribusiness marketing problems. Students examine the efficient allocation of scarce resources within the country and profit maximization. They will understand both the supply and demand sides of agribusiness. Graduates can assume positions of managerial responsibilities in public and private agricultural and food-related enterprises and organizations. Programme Objectives ...
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...FASB Accounting Standards Codification Case 1 ACC 310 – Section 2 1. The topic number that addresses the accounting for agricultural production activities in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification is, FASB ASC 905. The title of this topic is Agriculture. 2. Entities that must apply the guidance contained in topic FASB ASC 905, are noted in FASB ASC 905-10-15-3, “The Agriculture Topic provides guidance for all entities in the agricultural industry, including agricultural producers and agricultural cooperatives.” According to FASB ASC 905-10-15-4, the following entities would not apply the guidance in this topic: a. Growers of timber b. Growers of pineapple and sugarcane in tropical regions c. Raisers of animals for competitive sports d. Merchants or noncooperative processors of agricultural products that purchase commodities from growers, contract harvesters, or others serving agricultural producers. The Red Hen Company produces, processes, and sells fresh eggs. The guidance in this topic would apply to The Red Hen Company according to FASB ASC 906-10-05-1 “Operating poultry and egg production facilities” is listed as one of the examples of the entities that follow the guidance in this topic. 3. FASB ASC 905-360-30-4 describes the type of animal that the egg-laying flock would be categorized as: The production costs of chickens raised for an egg-laying unit shall include the initial cost of the birds (or, if hatched, the costs of eggs...
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...period before the invention of writing. Prehistory begins in the Paleolithic Era, or "Early Stone Age," which is followed by the Neolithic Era, or New Stone Age, and the Agricultural Revolution (between 8000 and 5000 BCE) in the Fertile Crescent. The Agricultural Revolution marked a change in human history, as humans began the systematic husbandry of plants and animals.[4][5][6] Agriculture advanced, and most humans transitioned from a nomadic to a settled lifestyle as farmers in permanent settlements. Nomadism continued in some locations, especially in isolated regions with few domesticable plant species;[7] but the relative security and increased productivity provided by farming allowed human communities to expand into increasingly larger units, fostered by advances in transportation. As farming developed, grain agriculture became more sophisticated and prompted a division of labor to store food between growing seasons. Labor divisions then led to the rise of a leisured upper class and the development of cities. The growing complexity of human societies necessitated systems of writing and accounting.[8] Many cities developed on the banks of lakes and rivers; as early as 3000 BCE some of the first prominent, well-developed settlements had arisen in Mesopotamia,[9] on the banks of Egypt's River Nile,[10][11][12] and in the Indus River valley.[13][14][15] Similar civilizations probably developed along major rivers in China, but archaeological evidence for...
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...those ASEAN countries that will be included in the ASEAN Economic Community. AEC 2015 is fundamentally about open trade within ASEAN, meaning there will be one big market for goods and services or a free flow of goods, services, capital and labor among the participating countries. This will be beneficial for the people since products and services will become competitive and a lot of cheap goods will be available in the market. But, what does it really mean for the Philippine Agriculture? In the seminar conducted by Dr. Tolentino, the Deputy Director General of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Laguna entitled “Rice, Nutrition and Food Security, and AEC 2015; Some Relevant Factors” it came to my realization that the Philippine government along with the different government offices associated with the country’s agricultural sector especially the Department of Agriculture should take the necessary immediate action in improving the current situation of the Philippine Agriculture, especially now that ASEAN 2015 is soon at hand. There are lots of programs implemented in the different parts of the country that give assistance to farmers like mechanization programs and input subsidies but, they are still not enough for our agricultural commodities to be competitive. The Philippines is an agricultural country known for producing rice, corn and coconut among others. Majority of the people consumes rice, making it the staple food. An average Filipino consumes...
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...FACULTV OF AGRICULTURE B. AGRICULTURE 100 Level First Semester 1. Communication in English I 2. Logic Philosophy & Human Existence 3. Physical Chemistry 4. General Biology I (Botany/Zoology) 5. Practical Biology 6. General Physics 7. Mathematics 8. Organic Chemistry I 9. Practical Chemistry Sub-Total Second Semester 10. Communication in English II 11. Nigerian People and Culture 12. Social Sciences 13. Organic Chemistry 14. Biology II 15. Organic Chemistry II 16. Mathematics 17. Practical Physics 18. Use of Library Sub-Total 200 Credits 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 18 Credits Credits 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 17 Credits Level 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. First Semester Climatology and Biogeography General Agriculture Anatomy and Physiology of Farm Animals Crop Anatomy, Taxonomy and Physiology Principles of Soil Science Principles of Agricultural Economics Introduction to Forestry Resource Manag~ment Introduction to Biotechnology Sub-Total 8. 9. 10 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Second Semester Principles of Animal Production Principles of Crop Production Principles of Food Science and Technology Introductory Biochemistry Introduction to Computers Introduction to Fisheries & Wildlife Introductory Statistics Entrepreneurial Studies I Introduction to Home Economics Sub-Total Credits 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 18 Credits Credits 2 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 19 Credits Total = 37 Credits All courses are core-courses for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. 300 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8...
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...Global and Domestic Issues in the Food Supply Chain (Source: Roger W. Hutt, Arizona State University) High-value and processed foods, accounting for three-fourths of total world food sales have increased in response to consumers diversifying their diets or demanding higher-quality and labor-saving food products (Regmi and Gehlhar, 2005). More and more, consumers are asking for convenience, and the food system is responding. The relatively higher cost of a ready-to-serve bag of salad is preferable to a head of lettuce that must be trimmed and prepared. Demand for foreign brands and consumer-ready products, in particular, are expanding as well. Food producers and marketers are responding to the demands of the marketplace. Producers are investing in processing facilities in many host companies. Adjusting to meet the needs of consumers, retailers are importing high-value foods from around the world and selling it from a variety of retail store formats, with supermarkets and hypermarkets accounting for more than fifty-percent of global packaged food sales in 2003 (U. S. Department of Agriculture, Global Food Industry Structure, 2007). Globalization and safety and defense of the nation’s food system are themes very much intertwined in the literature. As Cheek (2006) pointed out, “Today, global consumers are demanding a source-verified and disease-free food supply. . . Changing consumer attitudes have resulted in demands for greater food safety on the retail market.”...
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...materials. Since the beginning of time, China has risen significantly in all aspects of life through agriculture, politics, economics, and population. The rapid development of such country has attracted worldwide attention in recent years. Compared with the population of 1265825048 from the 2000 population census (zero hour of November 1, 2000), the total population of the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and the servicemen of the mainland of China increased by 73899804 persons, or 5.84 percent over the past 10 years. The average annual growth rate was 0.57 percent. In the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of the mainland of China, there were 401517330 family households with a population of 1244608395 persons. The average size of family household was 3.10 persons, or 0.34 people less as compared with the 3.44 persons in the 2000 population census. Of the population enumerated in the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and servicemen of the mainland of China, 686852572 persons or 51.27 percent were males, while 652872280 persons or 48.73 percent were females. Of the population enumerated in the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and servicemen of the mainland of China, 222459737 persons were in the age group of 0-14, accounting for 16.60 percent of the total population; 939616410 persons in the age group of 15-59, accounting for 70.14 percent, and 177648705...
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...RURAL TO URBAN MIGRATION IN CHINA 1. REASONS * http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/chinas-young-rural-urban-migrants-search-fortune-happiness-and-independence : * Interestingly, being tired of school was one of the most frequent answers to the primary migration motivation question, surpassing economic reasons. Many of our interviewees expressed little interest in school and did not complete their compulsory nine years of education before migrating. A secondary reason emerged, however, for not finishing school: the inability or unwillingness to pay for schooling when job opportunities in cities became available. After dropping out, the Chinese school enrollment structure all but precludes youth from going back to school and continuing their education where they left off. * Many interviewees also mentioned the attraction of city life, broadcast as exceptional and exotic by both earlier migrants returning to the village and the media, as a primary motivator in their decision to migrate. A related motivator is the desire for material things and luxury items available only to urban workers * http://projectpartner.org/poverty/untold-story-chinas-rural-urban-migration/ * About 362 million Chinese live on less than $2/day. With most of these poor living in rural areas, the need for income drives them to areas with a promise of new income. * Rural Chinese live a mainly agrarian lifestyle, farming the land and raising livestock. With access to clean water...
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...Positive and Negative Impact of Computer in Society The Social Impact of Computer in Our Society From the time of the invention of the computers to the present day, computers have met tremendous changes. Time to time incorporation of the latest technical achievement has made the use of computer easier. More and more application have been developed and almost all the areas of the professions have been computerized. Computerization is continuously becoming an important part of many organizations. Computer have proved almost all the fields whether related to numeric processing or non numeric processing or document processing in the developed countries and all the walks of life. Computers have become the part of every organization. Beneficial or Positive Impact of Computer in our Society * Any professional individual like doctors, engineers, businessmen etc. undergo a change in their style or working pattern after they get the knowledge of computer. * An individual becomes more competent to take a decisions due to the computer because all the information required to take the decision is provided by the computer on time. As a result, any individuals or institutions get success very fast. * The person working at the managerial level becomes less dependent on low level staff like clerks and accountants. Their accessibility to the information increases tremendously. This improves their working patters and efficiency, which benefit the organization and ultimately affects the...
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...poverty reduction. Due to well-developed infrastructure, open foreign investment policy, strong manufacturing industry, and principles of free trade. Thailand becomes one of the most resilient economies. The agricultural sector plays an important role in the economic development of Thailand. The Thai government has opened its market to international trade. During the 1980s, the agriculture used up nearly 70% of the employment. From 2003 to 2011, Thailand’s agricultural percentage of the GDP has increased from 10.3% up to 12.1 %, with a little decreasing both from 2006 to 2007 and from 2008 to 2009. Thailand’s agricultural development has started since 1960s when large amount of new land and unemployed labor became accessible. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Thailand was the second largest exporter of agricultural products among Asian countries in 2004, with a 27.1% share of world’s rice export. Due to numerous government policies, agriculture in Thailand has been growing prosperously. In 1966, the Thai government established the Bank for Agriculture and Agriculture Cooperatives, aiming to supply credit. In 1975, the central...
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...“Sustainable Development—World economies need to wake up” World reached the mark of seven billion people. It forgets its weight over its head. Earth with menial resources, sustaining the life of human being. Man on the other hand forgetting these menial resources over using it leaving future generations in risk. The consciousness of conserving the environment had its root from Earth summit, Rio de janerio Brazil (3 June to 14 June 1992).This session opened great debate in all the participated nations. Within Very short span in every country a buzz word entered in the society. The word is sustainable ideologies/development ideas. Sustainable development in simple terms can be called a development strategy where present generation needs are fulfilled by not compromising for future generations. Sustainable development ties together concern for the carrying capacity of natural systems with the social challenges facing humanity. Ecologists have pointed to The Limits to Growth, and presented the alternative of a "steady state economy" in order to address environmental concerns. Every International conference talks more about sustainable development but does very less in action. Present Scenario of Climate change. Both Geo thermal Institutes of the world One in (Nalgonda ) India and other in U.S.A have confirmed the global temperature has raised to 1*C. The International Energy Agency (IEA)’s data is regarded as gold standard in emissions and energy. This...
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...Indonesia Eases Quotas on Beef From Australia Published: May 28, 2013 Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/business/global/indonesia-eases-quotas-on-beeffrom-australia.html?_r=0 SYDNEY — The Australian beef industry will be able to increase sales to Indonesia, one of its biggest markets, after Jakarta relaxed restrictions on some imports to hold down local beef prices and prevent supply shortages under a policy aimed at increasing self-sufficiency. Indonesia has agreed to exempt ―premium‖ Australian beef imports from quotas, Trade Minister Craig Emerson of Australia said Tuesday. It will also allow live cattle exporters to start filling quotas intended for the final six months of the year ahead of schedule. Australia is among the world’s biggest beef exporters and has relied heavily on Indonesian demand, but the tightening of quotas by what was its largest live cattle market in 2012 and 2013 hurt the industry. Indonesia cut its 2012 import quotas for live cattle more than a third and for beef nearly two-thirds, while 2013 quotas were cut another 30 percent for cattle and 6 percent for beef, as Jakarta sought to promote its domestic beef market. Australian beef cattle prices have recovered slightly in the past week, with the Eastern Young Cattle Indicator, a benchmark, rising 2 cents Monday to 2.96 Australian dollars, or $2.86, per kilogram, or 2.2 pounds, although prices remain 20 percent lower than a year ago. ―Today’s decision means that those farmers that have...
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...Draft Proposal on Impact Assessment of Urban Agriculture Research and Development in Nairobi By William Omoto Department of Research Development Nairobi Kenya 1. INTRODUCTION Background Kenya’s leading development challenges today include alleviation of poverty and environmental management in the context of rapid population growth and urbanization. Kenya’s population was 28.6 million people in 1999 and is expected to reach 43 million in the year 2020. According to the government statistics, the national level of absolute poverty increased from 44% in 1992 to 56% in 2002 (GoK 2002). Nairobi has registered the highest rate of urbanization (4.5%) with a population of 2.2m in 2000 projected to reach 3.2m in the year 2010. About 50% of people in Nairobi live below the absolute poverty line of Ksh. 2 648. As the urbanization trend continues, urban environments are deteriorating. Most of the urban poor are concentrated in the informal settlements where there are no infrastructure and services to address environmental problems and are engaged in urban agriculture. One of the biggest policy challenges today is the inclusion of environmental policy into urban policy. UPA can be an integral part of a set of policies for sustainable urban environmental management. Urban AF can play an especially vital role in waste management by transforming waste into food and fuel. Waste management approaches in place include waste collecting, sorting, treatment and recycling...
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...Assignment #4 “Interpreting Macroeconomic Conditions” Gene Naroditsky Professor: Dr. Blondel Brinkman ECO 550: Managerial Economics and Globalization Strayer University June 5, 2011 I. Manufacturing 1. Abstract. When assessing the size and importance of the U.S. manufacturing sector, it is vital to recognize that many other sectors, such as finance, telecommunications, wholesale and retail trade, and accounting, depend on a strong manufacturing base. While U.S. manufacturing itself is the eighth largest economy in the world, its impact on the overall U.S. economy is much larger when this “multiplier effect” is taken into account. And reports of the demise of the manufacturing economy in the 21st century are clearly premature. While the general public perceives a manufacturing sector marked primarily by a loss of jobs, the facts about the industry paint a different picture. The United States is the world's largest manufacturing economy, producing 21 percent of global manufactured products. China is second at 15 percent and Japan is third at 12 percent. U.S. manufacturing produces $1.6 trillion of value each year, or 11.2 percent of U.S. GDP. Manufacturing supports an estimated 18.6 million jobs in the U.S.—about one in six private sector jobs. Nearly 12 million Americans (or 9 percent of the workforce) are employed directly in manufacturing. In 2009, the average U.S. manufacturing worker earned $74,447 annually, including pay and benefits. The average non-manufacturing...
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...today. Fish Farming must be considered to ensure a year round supply of fish to fuel the industry. Inland fishing should also be looked at. Research Centers must be established to keep the industry at par with new technologies. Students of Universities can engage in Marine Biology and/or Aquarium Science in studying the ocean and its inhabitants and how to protect the environment. Fish Centers with packaging and preservation capabilities should also be built to help control the prices better. A constant source of market must be available to further enhance the industry. Small private businesses that can support this industry are: Restaurants, Grocery Stores, Barbering Shops, Auto mechanics, Law Firms, Communication Centers, Accounting Firms…etc As well as Government offices to support this industry: Post Office, Police and Fire Service, Hospitals, Ports Authority, Schools, City Administration Offices…etc Hospitality Industry as an example: Communities with Beaches present a special form of business that can be taken advantage of with fewer resources. Beaches are the number one attraction to vacationers and everyone is...
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