farm-gate

"But the story changes from farm-gate to farm-gate."

Farmers Sense the End of Big Boom Scott Kilman 2011

One year after a blight ravaged the country's opium crops and raised hopes that farmers would turn their backs on opium cultivation, the farm-gate value of this year's harvest more than doubled to $1.4 billion, the U.N. said.

Afghan Opium Output Surges Dion Nissenbaum 2011

The total export value of Afghan hashish is still unknown, but its farm-gate value - the income paid to farmers - is estimated at about US$40-$95 million, roughly 15% that of opium ($438 million in 2009).

Josh Mull: Rethinking Afghanistan's Sticky Icky Quagmire 2010

(The current farm-gate price for half a kilo of wheat is 6p).

Greens living in ivory towers now want to farm them too 2010

Kendall, president of the National Farmers' Union, complained that the market had been warped by direct contracts between retailers and a minority of farmers who are guaranteed a premium to the farm-gate price for their milk.

British dairy industry becoming unsustainable, warns farmers' union Zoe Wood 2010

The total export value of Afghan hashish is still unknown, but its farm-gate value - the income paid to farmers - is estimated at about US$40-$95 million, roughly 15% that of opium ($438 million in 2009).

Rethinking Afghanistan's Sticky Icky Quagmire Josh Mull 2010

Given more transit security and the kind of services that traffickers provide opium farmers -- credit, transport, seed delivery and crop purchase at the farm-gate -- there is a chance that farmers might, in the long term, move away from opium.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

Given more transit security and the kind of services that traffickers provide opium farmers -- credit, transport, seed delivery and crop purchase at the farm-gate -- there is a chance that farmers might, in the long term, move away from opium.

Dealing with the drugs problem in Afghanistan 2009

Given more transit security and the kind of services that traffickers provide opium farmers -- credit, transport, seed delivery and crop purchase at the farm-gate -- there is a chance that farmers might, in the long term, move away from opium.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

Barriers to the wider application of precision farming include the scarcity and high cost of subtle management skills compared with using chemical inputs, and, among poor farmers, insecure tenure, lack of credit and low farm-gate prices.

Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 3 2008