In addition, rising migrant wages and higher farm-gate prices have led to a 13.7 percent increase in real rural incomes and 16.8 percent increase in rural retail sales during the first half of 2011, CLSA says.

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"Indian cottonseed producers actually realize almost seven times the financial benefits growing cottonseed for local seed companies than if they were to sell that same yield at farm gate prices"--using their land, that is, primarily to produce cotton rather than seed.

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The arrangement involves Microsoft cutting its "factory gate" prices to retailers - schools should still shop around for the best licensing deal, Becta said.

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The report said that despite the fall in farm-gate milk prices from 22p to 18p over the past two years, Milk Marque was using its market share to keep milk prices too high.

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And this is likely an understatement since the FCI estimates provided by Team Marketing Reports are based on regular season games where ticket prices are less expensive (though the league gets a larger share of playoff gate revenues).

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