High-yielding variety

These genes were responsible for the reduction in lodging (Hedden, 2003). Table 2 Changes in production input in India, Pakistan and china due to the green revolution adapted from (Wu & Butz, 2004). Changes in Product Quality The green revolution started with the intention of increasing yields and yield stability. However, with time wheat exportation became significant for many countries which makes it competitive on the global market. many importers are very specific on the quality of the product they receive (Trethowan et al., 2007). Initially, the semi-dwarf HYV led to a decrease in protein. It was concluded this occur because of the performance difference in the lines used to obtain the semi-dwarf, the protein was diluted in the high concentration of carbohydrates. Never the less as breeding continued protein and net weight has increase insignificantly but the maintaining or improving these values was a significant achievement during genes manipulations to increase yields. As time progress, greater knowledge in the genetic control of yield and quality was understood and successful efforts were made to improve same (Trethowan et al.,…

The issue of dialect and education and, in particular, what dialect is correct to use in the classroom has generated a debate in schools. “Linguistic research defines a dialect, or language variety, as a variety of a language that is associated with a particular regional or social group.” Contrary to popular belief, dialect is not a lesser or ungrammatical way of speaking. All dialects are logical even though they may vary in pronunciation, grammar, or vocabulary (Godley, Sweetland, Wheeler,…

of discovering a new ending or even beating the game. The valley is the choice and the peak of each engagement is the result of the choice made. As more choices are made, the player gets close to discovering the new ending, and thus becomes more engaged as more choices are made. The engagement drops off after realizing the ending is unsatisfying. Then is rises just a little as an appreciation of the clever ending to the episode. Since tension drives engagement, the tension of the game…

Introduction Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart in rural Bentonville, Arkansas and was a business genius and a true visionary of retail and merchandising that revolutionized the way retailers operate. Sam opened up warehouse type stores by the name of Wal-Mart Discount City, which led to the development not known until the late 1980’s to late 1990’s of what and how big Wal-Mart would become. Wal-Mart became the world’s leading retailer by mastering the art of their very own supply chain through…

retail stores now sell more toys, beauty products, and dry good food products. Dollarama has evolved to turn into a mini department store versus a dollar store. Prediction is that Dollarama will continue to grow and become a competition for department stores. Competitive Advantage Dollarama’s competitive advantage is because of their simple, growth oriented business model (Dollarama Inc., 2015, p. 23). They use direct sourcing when buying product. As stated previously, this helps lower cost of…

closing profitable deals; At the end of the day all an entrepreneur wants is to make a profit, and supply their customers with quality merchandise, and for those of you who are not familiar with the term, self made entrepreneur, an entrepreneur is a business person who is the boss of his own business, empire or company, holding the title as The CEO who oversees the day to day operations within the business entity. Entrepreneurs are in charge of constantly raising capital for the business, carry…

Porters Degree of Rivalry - Stacy In the retail world, there will always be a high level of competitive rivalry, mostly because there are a high number and variety of firms. Retailers, such as, Target, Kmart, Shopko, Carrefour, and Best Buy are all competing in a similar retail environment and must all remain highly competitive to survive. Walmart has the competitive advantage in the retail industry and they must create new strategies and sustainability to remain number one. Keeping prices…

Sometimes I am curious about what the many different groups of minorities feel like in the United States. For example, their struggles, emotions, and actions they choose to make while trying to adjust to a new environment. Eric Liu’s memoir The Accidental Asian demonstrates just that. It depicts the double consciousness, social structures, instances of identity confusion, and the agency a second-generation Chinese American experiences. In high school, he experiences the social structure of…

the head (“ate”) precedes its complement (“a man”). In the process of analyzing Jordanian Arabic, I accumulated a variety of questions that I could not yet answer, but that I was interested in addressing in future interviews. Among these questions, several, such as whether movement was occurring within the recorded sentences, were significant enough that I immediately contacted the native speaker via the phone and obtained additional sample sentences to confirm or refute my hypothesis. Other…

1.From the article in our reading this week there is no doubt that Dollar Tree domestic growth has taken on the strategies of the “Prospector” and “Analyzers” approach from the Miles’ and Snow strategy typology model. That said, evidence show that Dollar Tree used the prospector approach aggressively by buying out the competition. From 1995 to 2006 Dollar Tree acquired stores in the same industry throughout North America from New York to California (Parnell, 2014). Each acquisition caused the…