This study looked at the factors determining commercialization of smallholder farming in Kenya. The household characteristics were captured by gender head, labour size, age head and education level head. On other hand, farm size application irrigation. intervening variables access to transport, income from non – activities livestock sales. used cross-sectional data based on surveyed 2011 Kenya ...

The present study examined the perception of smallholder pineapple farmers on Global GAP standard compliance, assessed compliant farmers’ rate of adherence to standard requirements, and compared the average farm profit of Global GAP compliant and non-compliant pineapple farmers in Akuapem South Municipal Area of Ghana. The study used mainly farm level data solicited from 150 randomly selected p...

A.J. VAN DER ZIJPP, H. MOLLENHORST, P.B.M. BERENTSEN and I.J.M. DE BOER 1 Animal Production Systems Group, Department of Animal Sciences, Wageningen University, 2 Farm Technology Group, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University, 3 Business Economics, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands. * Corresponding author: Akke.vander...

To date, the study of dispatching or load balancing in server farms has primarily focused on the minimization ofresponse time. Server farms are typically modeled by a front-end router that employs a dispatching policy to routejobs to one of several servers, with each server scheduling all the jobs in its queue via Processor-Sharing. However,the common assumption has been that al...

This study analysed factors influencing food security status of female headed farm households in Abia state, Nigeria. Multistage random sampling technique was employed in selecting 240 female headed farm households from whom data were collected using structured questionnaire. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics, food security indices and probit regression technique. Result...

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY Equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) is one of the most common causes of infectious abortion in mares. Analysing the demography of outbreaks and detailing subsequent reproductive performance of affected mares will assist in the management of future (threatened) epizootics. OBJECTIVES To examine the epidemiology and reproductive outcomes of 2 EHV-1 abortion epizootics with...

BACKGROUND Farm environments are especially hazardous for young people. While much is known about acute physical causes of traumatic farm injury, little is known about social factors that may underlie their aetiology. OBJECTIVES In a nationally representative sample of young Canadians aged 11-15 years, we described and compared farm and non-farm adolescents in terms of the qualities of their ...