estimated share of the ACIAR investment which could be attributed to canola. From an aggregate perspective, these benefits paid …-based livestock industries and the canola industry. This economic evaluation focuses on the impact of the project outcomes for the … canola industry. Sulfur is critical for high canola yields and most New South Wales (NSW) and Western Australian soils are …

Thailand and Australia is provided in this report. During 1983–1996, ACIAR invested A$1.2 million in research designed to …, three dollars of project benefits have resulted. A high proportion of realised benefits was estimated to accrue to … Australian rice producers, through reduced grain drying costs, while benefits have also been captured by the Thai rice production …

Agricultural trade between Australia and China has increased significantly in recent years and the momentum is likely … trade on their domestic industries. This paper examines agricultural trade patterns between Australian and China and …

This report establishes that ACIAR Research Project AS2/1994/023, ‘Breeding and feeding pigs in Australia and Vietnam … University of Queensland in Australia, and the Institute of Agricultural Sciences of South Vietnam in Vietnam. The best estimate … project are still significant even when the net present value up to, and including, 2001 is considered. While the breeding and …

: In recent years Chinese rapeseed production has undergone significant changes. In order to explain this evolution …, this article focuses on analyzing gross margin ratios and labour cost for rapeseed and wheat which is found to be the major … competing crop from a grower’s perspective. An econometric model applied to economic data from four main Chinese rapeseed …

The ACIAR-managed project CS1/1996/013, Herbicide-resistant weeds of wheat in India and Australia: integrated … extremely high ratio of benefits to project costs. Zero tillage by itself is clearly a profitable technology. It does not need a …

–cost ratio was 13:1, and the internal rate of return was 63 per cent. Benefits accrued to both Thailand and Australia, with the … proportion of benefits attributed 52 per cent to Thailand and 48 per cent to Australia. The commodities to which benefits mostly … at 64 per cent. If benefits realised by 1996/97 were considered, the net present value was $30 million, the benefit …

1993 have generated economic gains in these countries, considerable benefits have been realised in Australia. These … benefits; gains of up to $4m a year during the eradication of the papaya fruit fly from Australia as a result of continued … technology. 1.2 Project Benefits. While the two ACIAR research projects carried out in Malaysia and Thailand between 1984 and …

significant benefits to banana production in Australia. Assuming similar levels of damage in Australia as in Papua New Guinea, we … estimate these benefits to be $223 million to the year 2020. The present value of total benefits from the ACIAR project equals … $424.7 million ($201.6 million to Papua New Guinea and $223.1 million to Australia). This compares with the present value …

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia, and the Chinese Academy of Forestry (CAF), has … been involved in tree species selection trials in southern China since 1984. The trials were aimed at identifying fast …. Using a 5% discount rate, base-case benefit estimates suggest the future stream of economic gains to China have a net …