De internationale geldmarkt

Amsterdam, 8 Februari 1928.     

PROBLEMS,POLICIES AND DATA NEEDS IN CANADIAN AGRICULTURE*

This study maintains that the development of Canadian agriculture requires a reassessment of the values, constraints and goals relating to the sector, with a view to conceive and implement a goals-means-targets structure more amenable to progress. The solution of the economic, socio-psychological and organizational problems which beset Canadian agriculture is presently hindered by a paucity of adequate, timely data in crucial areas. The performance of the policy-maker and the agricultural producer have been generally suboptimal, as exemplified by extemporization in the case of the former and secular inefficiencies and forgone opportunities in the case of the latter. Cette étude maintienl que le développement de ?agriculture canadienne impose un réajustment des valeurs, des conlrainles et des objectifs agricoles. afin de concevoir et ?aménager des structures évolutives englobant les fins et les moyens. Le manque de données valables et opportuns dans les domaines cruciaux nous empêche d.apporter une solution aux problémes économiques, socio-psychologiques el structured auxquels ?agriculture canadienne se heurle aujourd'hui. Ni les responsables de la politique agricole ni les producteurs n'ont atteint un optimum ?efficacité, c'esl ce que démontre ?improvisation qui règne dans la politique agricole et ?inefficacité séculaire et les occasions manquées dans le cas des producteurs.     

ESTIMATION OF EFFECTIVE RISK REDUCION THROUGH IRRIGATION OF A PERENIAL CROP*

This paper outlines an approach to assessing the benefits from in vestment in the irrigation of tea stands in three areas of East Pakistan. Irrigation aflects both the establishment and productive life of the growing crop, and therefore the analysis includes a discounred assessment of the replacement decision, as well as an appraisal of the change in technology. Since the biological and weather eflects that determine annual and long-run productivity of the stand are stochastic variables, the evaluation is made using a simulation model in which these determinants are introduced as known discrete probabilities. Using this model an estimate may be made of rhe net gains to a tea estate of the risk reduction achieved by eliminating harmful crop moisture deficits.     

The Book of wheat,an economic history and practical manual of the wheat industry

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The Book of wheat, an economic history and practical manual of the wheat industryP. F. Dondlinger