Farmer's Reports Samples For Students

Abstract

Green, fair trade companies, face unique problems since they are not oriented to maximizing profits. Indeed, they aim at improving the welfare of the members and create social and environmental impacts. As such, there is a conflict of interests from the multi-objective stakeholders. However, the study shows that careful analysis of the problems and initiating problem-solving techniques such as participatory management, strategic plans and use of qualified personnel reduce the challenges.
1.0 Background of the Study
This section entails the history of the company, vision, core values as well as the vision. Additionally, it outlines the events and activities ...

Introduction

There are few most famous and largest stores working in grocery and health food stores industry in UK and USA. One of them is Whole Food store that is a retailer of natural and organic foods and other groceries. The Company is operating segments of natural and organic foods supermarkets in which national and international brands are available in their stores. The paper will discuss the marketing strategies, concepts and distribution strategy that the company used to attain competitive edge in the market.
1. Marketing concepts
Herein, it must be noted that with the passage of time there ...

International Foundation Year ProgrammeUndergraduate Study Skills in English.Continuous Assessment Task : Report PlanStudent name : Ali AlkasbiStudent number : 200820443Due Date : 18-11-2013Tutor : Jennifer Hirst Word Count : 3144This report is commissioned by the national consumer magazine called 'Right To Buy'.

The cocoa industry has is a big industry in the world. It gets its raw products from the farms in Ghana and Ivory Coast. They are processed to get products like chocolate and other by- products. It is considered a very crucial industry that it has its own challenges and benefits as a whole.
BackgroundGhana and Ivory Coast farms ...

6) Fair Trade Products Private Limited Products Private Ltd is a company that is based on the model to provide the maximum benefits of the trade activities to the original farmer or producer such as Coffee growers in Africa, Wheat grower in Asia and Cocoa growers in Middle East. It aims to reduce the role of brands and middle men in the process. Usually, these brands and middlemen get away with the bulk of the profits leaving very little profits and margin for the original farmers and producers of the goods and services who have contributed to the production process. ...

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20 years ago, I came to Vancouver as a new immigrant taking various types of work from cashier to retailing. Prior to that, I am a national of Hong Kong where I finished a Human Resource Management degree in Hong Kong City. I grew up in a rural area where my parents are local farmers. I wake up and help them as early as 5’o’clock in the morning to sell local products and deliver them in the market. We are from a small community where local farmers help each other. We lived by ...

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Milk Price War This case brings out the issue of price war among the milk retailers and the farmers. The concern is that some retailers feel comfortable to reduce the price of milk without considering the effect of the same to their profit and their suppliers. Many farmers are on the view that they should stop daily Farming simply because it does not bring value to their lives as an investment. However, some milk retailers and the top in the industry say Coles believe that reducing the price of milk will help them chase more consumers relative ...

RECOMMENDATIONS

The Fair Trade a term that refers to the entire Fair Trade Movement and all organizations that abide by the ten Fair Trade principles. Fair trade describes the labeling and certification systems governed by the Fair-trade International. (Miller, 2010, p. 19). The Agro Water Barrel Company promotes principles of fair trade. The company should continually advocate the adoption of more practices of fair trade. The following are recommendations for the organization are proficient to help solve the wicked problem.
The business and concept of fair trade should be elemental by responding to all failures related to conventional trade (Renard, ...

Introduction

Ethical policies and compliance is an important aspect that should be met by all companies. Ethics is used to refer to the measure of how right or wrong an act is, basing on the available standards and guidelines. An organization seeks to protect the company, customers, staff and the key stakeholders from any kind of lie that they may be lured into. This serves to keep the company’s reputation, enhance reliability from the customers and avoid risks that may be associated with the crime committed(Murphy, 1988). Ethical issues are, therefore, regarded highly and given lots of attention. ...

Executive Summary

The current report presents a number of strategic management strategies to the Australian federal government. In general, the report categorizes different ecosystem services and function provided by Murray-Darling basin into four major categories-production, habitat, information and regulating. Alongside this, the report indicates that in their efforts to provide ecosystem services and functions, industry stakeholders fail to allocate resources efficiently, more importantly, the report indicates that market failures results from nature of the market and the nature of goods and services produced and the nature of exchange used.
The market-based instruments (MBIs) refer to several regulations that government organizations use ...

Business Opportunity Analysis

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The following report is a business opportunity analysis for AtlanTech Resources Limited, for the purposes of determining the feasibility of lowbush blueberry moisture sensors as a viable addition to our family of products. Given the decreasing rate of sales that exists currently within the company (8% annual decrease), a new product must be released in the next three years to sustain the viability of our current business model; this report discusses the viability of the lowbush blueberry moisture sensor in fulfilling that role.
The existing market research and need for the product is established, as well as the ...

Report: Low bush Blueberry Moisture Sensor

Executive summary
This report is a full marketing analysis for the Low bush blueberry moisture sensor, a product developed to effectively predict the risk of monilinia infection in the blueberry fields. The equipment was developed by a team of agricultural researchers with the aim of creating a solution to this problem. Low bush blueberry moisture sensor functions with an algorithm that precisely shows the risk of infection or the state of infection. The moisture sensor helps to capture the wetness in the environment thus detecting potential risk of infection. The need to analyze the product’s prospects has been brought about the ...

Integrated Business Management

Executive Summary
This case study is based on the legal and commercial position of Choc Deluxe. The USP of this small scale specialist chocolate company was the quality. In the global industry of eighty-billion dollars, Choc Deluxe was a player. An issue emerged concerning to the availability of cocoa, which is the key ingredient in chocolate-making. There was a large order in hands of Choc Deluxe of supplying chocolate bars to a top-end department store for Christmas. However, the issue was that the order cannot be met effectively due to unavailability of Criollo cocoa. In such situation, the executive management of ...

Citrus Cancer Disease

Interim Report
A Reflective Discussion :
Online Tools Selection:
The online tools selected for the purpose of the report are Google and Science Direct. Both of these online search tools facilitate the client in having access to desired information in more reliable and easy manner. Google will help the user in collecting more relevant, uncluttered and informal layout of information. The other online tool that was used is Science Direct. It is website operated by the Dutch publisher Elsevier containing about 11 million articles from 2,500 journals and 6,000 e-books, reference works, book series ...

Introduction

In the past, agricultural production has relied on traditional approaches to enhancing farm production. For instance, farmers in the past used conventional approach such as the migration of birds to determine the climate conditions that were approaching. According to Zhang and Pierce (2013), farmers made planting decisions based on their experiences relating to the climatic conditions. However, traditional approaches to farming have severely resulted to a decrease in output because of the different and varying conditions that are beyond the comprehension of human experiences. As such, sensors have been developed for application in crop and animal faring with the goal ...

Currently, China ranks the top in the world in producing Rice, potatoes and wheat. China has a variety of crops and a range of different fruits, flowers and vegetables. It also boasts of animal farming since it has a lot different breeds of the same. This has been possible because the climate of China is favorable. The climate is varied of rainfall and temperate and zones but during winter it becomes cold and dry and in summer it is hot and rainy (King, 2000). It has also been made possible because of the cooperation of the farmers with the government. The government ...

A group of North Dakota farmers has entered the restaurant business in 2006 by opening Farmers & Fisher in Georgetown in order to support and promote family farms, emphasizing their commitment to sustainable agricultural practices. Several years after, the Union decided to expand its operations and involved current restaurant managers Dan Simons and Mike Vucurevich into the expansion by signing a profit-sharing agreement.

Already in the first year the new restaurant of Farmers Restaurant Group exceeded sales forecast by more than 20%. The success of this undertaking gained Simons the management position of the first group’s restaurant, which was losing ...

Current Market and Situational Analysis

McCain Foods is the world leader in the frozen French fry market. Founded in 1957 in Canada by the McCain brothers, McCain Food commands a market share of almost of 33% globally. With an employee base of 20,000 across the 57 countries of its operation, it is one of the fastest growing frozen food companies in the world. From the very beginning, the company followed a simple of philosophy of “Good ethics is good business” in running its business operations (MFL #1, 2011).
McCain Food is in the frozen food business for over four decades, leading the market in ...

After several failed attempts to secure an appointment with one of the America’s top corn producer- the Virginia born and based farmer- Mr. David Hula, I finally managed last week to have an one on one interview with him. David Hula-a reputable corn farmer in Virginia conducts his farming in a family owned farm. I chose to pay a visit to Mr. David Hula due to his outstanding performance nationally in production of corn since the year 2000. I had many queries of how he had managed the farming that has earned for him a name in the national gallery, the ...

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Part 1: Based on the reports given for June to January quarters of 2016 and 2015, here are a few insights and recommendations on marketing inputs and strategy.

Global Breakout

In the overall context, the revenue per day has grown 9.066% from $96,976 to $105,768. The contribution of revenue from Domestic segment has increased by 9.98% while the International segment grew by only 2.4%.
On a quarter to quarter growth basis, the JFM quarter revenue for 2016 is $66,119,977 and the April to June quarter ...

Introduction

The report focuses on the future development of agriculture in India. The lack of education, disproportionate workforce in agriculture and other non-farming industries, low productive and virtually no development strategy significantly affect and hinder general development. The problem of food produce is among the most burning due to the forecast that world population will increase to almost 10 billion people by 2060. The amount of food present today will be unable to satisfy the needs of everyone on this planet. Therefore food production must increase by 70%. In order to achieve this goal the only viable solution is seen ...

IntroductionFood consumption is one of the major requirements for humans; people eat to live with at least majority of people been blessed with a meal each day, whereas others may afford three or more. People are independent of culture and customs, eating remains a key facet in different celebrations all over the world among and within friends and families. Moreover, people wish to have a nutritious and healthy meal but the problem is “The safety of the food people consume.”The improvement of livestock and plants for the production of food and the use of diverse conservation skills have been in application ...

The History of Cotton in America

Historically, the cotton production in the United States has experienced times of entrepreneurial developments from England’s cotton clothes and yarn. When the factories began operation, the price of cotton fell drastically to ensure affordability of the clothes by the poor people. The lowered price of cotton saw the rise of demand that necessitated England to demand more cotton. America at this era did not have a large base of cotton production until 1830 when the South started large-scale production of cotton. England benefited from 70 percent of this production while the rest remained in the nation for local production.
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Environmental Effects

Environmental Effects: Resources Consent
Overview
The proposed quarry site is situated in an environmentally rich location. Exotic mature trees that are not native to its current ecosystem basically surround it; therefore, it was planted in the area to grow as newly adapting tree specie. In addition, sheep’s that are thriving in the grass growing in the Kanuka Hill presently grazes the land. Small bodies of water are presently home to small animals like small fish, birds and frogs at the surrounding wetlands and Kanuka stream. Furthermore, high concentration of vegetation and other plants are present in ...

The article by Robert Zoellick emphasizes on the importance of the World Bank as an instrument to “use finance to tackle global problems” and develop third world countries. Since its foundation the aim of the World Bank Group was to combat consequences of war and to provide assistance to the developing countries. Zoellick looks back at the history of the World Bank, mentioning challenges on the way of this institution. During the course of establishing of a free enterprise economy and the diffusion of private capital, the World Bank had not been only issuing loans, but fostering growth and overcoming ...

INTRODUCTION

The South West (SW) Wedding Awards is the biggest event conducted each year throughout the Plymouth, United Kingdom (UK). The event caters number of wedding photographers, event management firms, wedding beauticians, and every contributor adding the value to an event. Our organization, Bell-Pickle Hospitality, is contracted for providing food and beverage services for the gala event. It is an opportunity for our company to serve the best audience with excellence and establish a goodwill. Our audience in the Plymouth gala event includes the wedding specialists, wedding organizers, and related wedding service providers. Since the purpose of this gala event ...

TTIP or Transatlantic Trade Investment Partnership is an agreement that is negotiated between the European Union and the United States of America. It is an agreement that is being portrayed as a beneficial and valuable treaty for the people's benefit, but everything is not as clean and clear as it is portrayed (Ustr.gov., 2016). There have been widespread oppositions to the agreement, and it is feared that this agreement could cost a lot of jobs in the UK and other regions of Europe. In the 14th round of TTIP negotiations that took place in Brussels on 11th-15th July 2016, ...

Supplier Management Portfolio Section 1 2

Key performance indicators for suppliers: 2
Terms and conditions template: 2
Supplier Management Portfolio Section 2 3
Delivery of goods: 3
Receiving of goods: 3
Damaged goods: 3
Disputes and Arbitration: 3
Supplier Management Portfolio Section 3 4
Supplier assessment procedure: 4
Review of outcomes 4
Recommendation of supplier 5
Supplier Management Portfolio Section 1
Key performance indicators for suppliers:
A number of key performance indicators are going to be used for suppliers to the company. Savings is the first key performance indicator for suppliers wishing to work with the company. Savings will be calculated as the amount of ...

Globalization as a process of transformation on economy brought many changes to Russia’s economy and society. These changes were either good or bad but Russians suffered them both because it affected their culture and economic status. Every country must have gone through changes of transformation because of globalization. To the third world countries, globalization is helping them get closer to the developed world as they get more information on technology, better economy and better ways of socialization through education and civilization.
Most of these transformations resemble the dramatic changes that Russia received because of globalization. In the first ...

Starbucks is currently one of the most successful companies worldwide. With over 16,850 shops in 40 countries and raking in revenues of $10.7 billion, it is clear that Starbucks is a coffee retail magnate. For fourteen straight years, they’ve maintained a 5% same-store sales growth. (Lepore, 2011). However, one does not climb to such great lengths without a strategic industrial plan. Such success is not a product of circumstance, but of in depth analysis and planning. This paper aims to thoroughly study Starbucks’s business plans through a strategic analysis model through its five components: industry ...

Part 1 - Executive Summary

Most people are in need of organic foods which do not have any chemicals. Establishing an organic food supermarket will be able to provide the fresh fruits and vegetables to the people. The business will be hoping to offer best-quality feeds to the people which will promote their wellness. The venture is hoping to make profit through distributing the organic food and promote the environmental wellness. The potential growth of the business is diversifying through providing the food material, producing their own suppliers and manufacturing natural products such as creams (Canavari and Olson, 2007).
When carrying out organic food ...

Executive Summary

This paper is a market entry analysis report about Arla Foods, a global dairy giant that seeks to enter the newly opened markets of Cuba. It commences by analysing the internal systems and processes of Arla Foods. The analysis identifies that Arla Foods has a strong financial position and it is owned by dairy farmers who have a strong focus on innovative products. The products are in three classes –basic, enhanced and organic. The basic is extremely cheap and might be ideal for poorer countries around the world due to the fact that it is cheap and can be ...

Business Plan: Whether is it Feasible for BMG to Expand its Presence in the Increasing Affluent Chinese Market via Joint Venture (JV) with a Local Chinese and if it is Feasible in the Chinese Milk Market with a Local Partner.

Executive Summary

The purpose of this business plan is to come up with information in relation to the Chinese milk industry. Furthermore, this business plan seeks to determine whether the Chinese milk industry can be a lucrative platform to invest. Just the same way, this study is meant to analyze the possibility of BMG Company forming a joint venture with a ...

Starbucks is a very well-known American company that has the vision to become “a premier purveyor of the finest coffee in the world while maintaining the uncompromising principles” (Gregory). The company’s mission is “to inspire and nurture the human spirit – one person, one cup and one neighborhood at a time” (Starbuck website). In order be able to follow this mission, Starbucks relies on the following values: creating “a culture of warmth”, looking for the new ways to grow the company, be transparent and act with dignity, and be accountable (Starbucks website).
The company depends on its suppliers that ...

Executive Summary

This paper is a market entry analysis report about Arla Foods, a global dairy giant that seeks to enter the newly opened markets of Cuba. It commences by analysing the internal systems and processes of Arla Foods. The analysis identifies that Arla Foods has a strong financial position and it is owned by dairy farmers who have a strong focus on innovative products. The products are in three classes – basic, enhanced and organic. The basic is extremely cheap and might be ideal for poorer countries around the world due to the fact that it is cheap and can be ...

INVESTMENTS

Economic overview
The economy of Jamaica greatly relies on services that accounts for over 70 percent of its GDP. The Nation continues to earn most of the foreign exchange from remittances, tourism and alumina/bauxite. Both tourism and remittances accounts for 30 percent each, whereas alumina/bauxite exports contribute roughly 5 percent of the GDP. The alumina/bauxite sector was the greatly affected by global downturn whereas the remittance flow and tourism industry remained resilient.
The economy encounters several challenges to its growth including soaring corruption and crimes, huge-scale underemployment and unemployment as well as a debt-to-the-GDP ratio that is about 130 ...

The Grapes of Wrath, a novel written by John Steinbeck, is acute reaction to the social and economic situation of America during the 1930's. Summer 1937 brought severe drought and dust bowls, which caused the greatest damage to the crops and made thousands of broken farmers leave their lands in order to survive. The novel offers the chance to stand in the shoes of poor and desperate families, whose fertile lands went barren and were taken away by the bank agents. The shock comes with understanding that the Government is indifferent to the lives of this people and they don’ ...

A writer ventures into the writing business with the aim of entertaining the readers. These personalities write captivating stories that entertain the readers. However, in this case, Upton makes the above statement to try and bring out the fact that even though the book was written to entertain the readers, somewhat it tampered with their inner feeling. The book centers around a Lithuanian immigrant who comes to the USA with the hope of having a better life. However, the turnout of events does not impress both the writer and presumably the reader. The book describes the life of one Jurgigs life ...

Individual report

Introduction
The task of the following individual report is to discuss critically two questions using economic models and objectives. The first question is “The recent price wars in the supermarket and mobile phone industries have been beneficial to both consumers and their respective industries. The discussion of that topic is about the recent price wars between the UK supermarkets – the monopolists Tesco, Morrison, Sainsbury and Asda and the German supermarkets Aldi and Lidl. German supermarket gain the half of the British market by low prices for their goods and it lay the beginning of the price war. The ...

Abstract

This report highlights and analyses the operations and management done by ASDA in order to achieve high-level customer satisfaction and the competitive edge. The following aspects of service operation management and how they are used by ASDA will be analyzed through the report.

These aspects are as follows:

- Service Operations Concept
- The 5 Competitive Objectives
- Quality
- Supply Chain Management
- Capacity Management
- Corporate Social Responsibility

Introduction

ASDA is a subordinate of Wal-Mart, supermarket chains operating in the UK. ASDA supermarket retails food, drinks, clothes and other wide-ranging products. ASDA is the second largest retailer in the ...

This report is commissioned by National consumer magazine called “Right Buy”

Abbreviation:
(CRS): The corporate Social Responsibility
(FLA): Fair Labor Association

Introduction

Brief background:
The chocolate industry is categorized as one of the most reputable and biggest organizations in the world. South America and Africa are the world largest cocoa producers (bastard film productions, 2010). According the reports of the food empowerment project, West Africa countries provide 75% of the cocoa for the world market. It went further to expound the fact that child labor is a scourge that threatens childhood in the chocolate industry. CRS are the activities taking place in the chocolate industry that shows ...

Undergraduate Study Skills in English

Continuous Assessment Task: Cocoa industry community social responsibility (CSR)
Abbreviations
CSR Community social responsibility
- Introduction
- Background
Nestle company has had a long history dating back to 1867 in the UK when it was founded by Henri Nestle to supply the infants supplements to supplement children of mothers who could not breast feed to date when the company’s supply products to the global market.
Nestle opened its first factory in south Africa in 1927 and since then the company’s various products have been in use in the entire African continent. The ...

Executive Summary

Advancement in technology has helped businesses to have access to information in an easier way. Today even a common man can use internet to find important information easily. There are several search engines that have supported this cause and these search engines have helped the problems of people a lot in finding relevant information in a quick time (Hock, 2001). Using search engines, people can find information related to anything whether it is related to marketing, engineering, social sciences, humanities, physics, chemistry, mathematics etc. Therefore internet is used by people for a number of reasons (Jansen, & Spink, 2006).
This report presents the ...

English Engineering Paper – Latest Updates on Low Carbon Technology

Abstract
A lot of things have changed and technologies developed ever since the world entered the industrial era. Now, we are in the so called digital era, where most, if not everything, appear computerized. Machines and computers are now a big part of people’s lives that most cannot stand a day without access to such technologies. The continuously increasing reliance of companies and basically any type of organizations on computers, believing that they are keys in making work more efficient and effective at the same time, can also be easily noted. The world population has boomed so hard, the ...

Today, tax, trade, and unfair debt have pushed poverty all over the world to new levels. In other words, the weaknesses of poor, developing countries are being exploited by affluent countries. Philippe Diaz’s bold, disconcerting, and powerful documentary “The End of Poverty?” opens our eyes to the fact that that poverty is not a mere mishap and the victims are not to blame. This refreshing and straightforward documentary not only exposes poverty but also tries to get to the root cause of why so many people are living so poorly and are dying of malnutrition in affluent societies. Like ...

Executive summary

The world of technology has given rise to the most sophisticated gadgets in communication that has made life easier. The ipad is one of the many products that are manufactured by Apple Inc. Ipads are one of the fastest selling communication tools in the Australian market due to its various advantages (Trenholm, 2011, p. 67). Apart from being portable due to its small size, the gadget is also sophisticated; this is a quality that most people are looking for in the market. It is said that by 2016, about half of the people in Australia will have access to the ...

There have been climatic changes over the years that have led to the development of research in the meteorological department. Certain climatic changes have led to the occurrence of one event or the other. All the parts of the world face climatic changes in one way or the other. However, some parts of the world become more affected than others due to differences in landscape and the overall environment (Miller 2007). In Australia, one of the reasons why there have been variations in climate is due to the existence of the Southern Oscillation. In some instances, the southern oscillation ...

The company is a partnership of five owners who equally own and manages its running. The managerial responsibilities will be divided for the efficient management of the administrative operations.
The farm and its offices will be open from 6.00pm to 8.00pm weekdays and Saturday. On Sundays, the enterprise will be closed apart from its eatery, which will be open from 12.00pm to 6.00pm. A website will be launched in line with its e-services, and the Chickenya domain is yet to be secured.

Business Description

Chickenya Poultry Limited is a start-up business venture that seeks to provide quality eggs and chicks, to farmers ...

For Richer or Poorer by Tim Allen and Kristy Alley (1998)

Abstract
This report discusses the film For Richer or Poorer by Tim Allen and Kristy Alley (1998). The film was published in the U.S and Canada in 1998. Its casts include Tim Allen and Kristy Alley. The theme of the film was to warn against being materialistic and encourage people to live a simple life. The report also shows the demographics of the cast members most of whom are actors and comedians. Cultural issues and practices such as marriage and divorces are presented in the report. In addition, the report shows the healthcare issues, beliefs and preferences. Finally, the ...