Documented Essay Vertical Farming and its Contribution to Minimizing Jamaica’s Food Import Crisis Abstract Jamaica has not been able to meet the demands for food for its population and its visitors. The purpose of this research is to identify a solution for Jamaica’s dependence of attaining agricultural produce from external sources. This is achieved through vertical farming, the process of growing plants and animals in high rise buildings or cultivating upward in an isolated greenhouse. Numerous
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soils properties are aggravate to water quality degradation (Reopannichkul et al., 2010). Rainfall, the cause of water level and water flow are higher than dry season to increase nutrients in river especially in agricultural zone of the Mun river basin (Akter and Babel, 2012). Agricultural practice in Nakhon Nayok province in off-season is the problem for water quality management because of nutrients carried out to river by rain (Seeboonruang, 2012). Wet season and rain fall make crisis with wastewater
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www.ccsenet.org/ijef International Journal of Economics and Finance Vol. 4, No. 1; January 2012 The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Nigeria: A Sectoral Output Analysis Philip Ifeakachukwu, NWOSA (Correspondence author) Department of Economics, Accounting and Finance Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria Tel: 234-082-470-7555 E-mail: nwosaphilip@yahoo.com Muibi Olufemi, SAIBU Dept of Economics, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria Tel: 234-085-338-1914
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AGRO BASED MBA 1. Introduction Ours is an agricultural country. Eighty percent of our economy is supported by agricultural resources. A large portion of our exports is contributed by agricultural products. With the emergence of green revolution, lots of agro based firms have come up. Like poultry, fishery, dairy, pisciculture, sericulture etc. Our economy is largely shared by the contribution of all these firms. At present the existing agricultural firms being highly promising, are not doing well
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 INTRODUCTION Economist always say that human beings behavior are rational that is, they are classified and directed at some specific point, devoid of unnecessary emotions and sentiments. In the same line of thought when a group of persons decided to join or form a co-operative society, they do so with some rationale behind their intention and or action (Sanusi, 2003). Economics reasons constitute the major motive why people join or form co-operative. It is an attempt
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constitute one-fourth of the world's population acordng to UN WOMEN (2012). They are leaders, producers, entrepreneurs and service providers, and their contributions are vital to the well-being of families, communities and economies, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. Rural women account for a great proportion of the agricultural labour force, produce the majority of food grown, especially in subsistence farming, and perform most of the unpaid care work in rural areas Block (2010)
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Aquaculture: Fisheries is an important vibrant sector. It's contributing to the national GDP is around 1.4% and 4.5% GDP contribution to the agriculture sector as a whole. In broad terms, it involves capture including aquaculture, inland and sea, gears, oceanography, navigation, aquarium management, processing, export and import of seafood, fish breeding, special products and by-products, research and related activities. Check Marine Engineering. Fisheries & Aquaculture During the last six decades, the sector
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Tax Research – Expensing versus capitalization of business expenditures Sally Jones - McIntire School of Commerce University of Virginia smj7q@virginia.edu Memo to the tax file In 2003, Connor Inc. (a calendar year C corporation) announced its intention to construct a manufacturing facility in the Shenendoah Valley. In order to convince the corporation to locate the facility in Augusta County, the county contributed a six-acre tract of undeveloped municipal land to Connor Inc. The
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content for the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts first report, Wisconsin’s Changing Climate: Impacts and Adaptation, released in February 2011. THE WISCONSIN INITIATIVE ON CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS 1st Adaptive Assessment Report Contribution of the Soil Conservation Working Group July 2010 Contour stripcropping in central Wisconsin Photo by Ron Nichols, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Participants of Working Group William L. Bland, Professor, Department of Soil
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Income Statements……………………………………………………8 Other Financial Statements…………………………………………..9 Bookkeeping Cycle…………………………………………………….9 Regulations and Standards…………………………………………..11 Accounting Reforms…………………………………………………..12 Biological Assets Research…………………………………………...13 Literatures Review……………………………………………………..14 Methodology and Model…………………………………………….... 16 Findings………………………………………………………………….18 Conclusion……………………………………………………………….19 References………………………………………………………………20 Financial
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