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A USDA reorganization in 1961 led to the creation of the Statistical Reporting Service, known today as National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). [1] The 1997 Appropriations Act [2] shifted the responsibility of conducting the Census of Agriculture from U.S. Census Bureau to USDA. Since then the census has been conducted every five years ...
The value and production of individual crops varies substantially from year to year as prices fluctuate on the world and country markets and weather and other factors influence production. This list includes the top 50 most valuable crops and livestock products but does not necessarily include the top 50 most heavily produced crops and ...
The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) provides statistics in service to U.S. agriculture. Its reports cover virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture, including production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm finances, chemical use, and changes in the demographics of U.S ...
The Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices (CACP) is an attached office under the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Government of India, that recommends Minimum Support Prices (MSPs) for select crops. It was established in 1965 [2] as the Agricultural Prices Commission, and was given its present name in 1985. [3]
The Prices paid index is an index that measures changes in the prices paid for goods and services used in crop and livestock production and family living. The production component of the index accounts for over 65% of the total, and family living expenses represented by the CPI-U account for less than 20% of the index.
In the field of environmental economics, agricultural economists have contributed in three main areas: designing incentives to control environmental externalities (such as water pollution due to agricultural production), estimating the value of non-market benefits from natural resources and environmental amenities (such as an appealing rural landscape), and the complex interrelationship ...
The trade-weighted FAO Food Price Index is technically a price index and is calculated using the Laspeyres formula. It documents the development of world market prices of 24 agricultural commodities and foodstuffs in U.S. dollars. Foodstuffs have been grouped by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations into five ...
National Agriculture Market or eNAM (where e is to be construed as electronic or digital) is an online trading platform for agricultural commodities in India. The market facilitates farmers, traders and buyers with online trading in commodities. [1] The market helps in better price discovery and providing facilities for smooth marketing of ...