The Internet is everywhere. A farmer in rural Nebraska can check the local weather, inspect his New York stock portfolio, email his son overseas, and book an African safari all in a matter of minutes. The underlying technology that successfully connects the farmer to these destinations is a routing protocol, specifically, Border Gateway Protocol, or BGP. BGP is the routing protocol of the Inter...

The study was conducted among the two farmer groups in Bhaktapur and Kavre districts of Nepal. The main objective of the study is to evaluate the differences in belief, attitude and practices felt by the farmers after participation in the IPM FFS. The study has been based on data collected through personal interview with the farmers, focus group discussion, personal observation in the farmers f...

The Branch and Bound (B&B) algorithm is one of the most used methods to solve in an exact way combinatorial optimization problems. In a previous article, we proposed a new approach of the parallel B&B algorithm for distributed systems using the farmer-worker paradigm. However, the new farmer-worker approach has a disadvantage: some nodes of the B&B tree can be explored by several B&B processes....

We study the effect of offering index insurance to groups versus individuals on individual’s savings and insurance decisions in a lab experiment in the field, which offers real index insurance. We also look at how the network relationships among dairy farmers in the Dominican Republics affects the demand for group index insurance. Individuals offered group insurance are exogenously grouped acco...

This study considers a quantity discount problem between a single seller (poultry famer) and two buyers (retailers). The poultry farmer’s inventory level increases due to the increase in the weight of the fowls. The retailers purchase fresh chicken meat from the poultry farmer, the inventory levels of the retailers are therefore depleted due to the combined effects of its demand and deteriorati...

We consider the population dynamics of two competing species sharing the same resource, which is modeled by the carrying capacity term of logistic equation. One species (farmer) increases the carrying capacity in exchange for a decreased survival rate, while the other species (exploiter) does not. As the carrying capacity is shared by both species, farmer is altruistic. The effect of continuous...

The average lifetime of sows as observed in production herds is primarily influenced by management decisions. Usually the farmer decides to cull a sow, either because he expects that a gilt's average productivity is higher than the marginal productivity of the sow, or because the current number of sows exceeds the production capacity, e.g. in the farrowing department. Several studies have shown...

It is widely argued that farmers are unwilling to pay adequate fees for surface water irrigation to recover the costs associated with maintenance and improvement of delivery systems. In this paper, we use a discrete choice experiment to study farmer preferences for irrigation characteristics along two branch canals in Punjab Province in eastern Pakistan. We find that farmers are generally willi...

This paper presents evidence showing that favoritism of close peers severely limits the ability of social networks to allocate a new agricultural technology. I use a three-year field experiment where a new and profitable seed variety was first delivered to a random subset of farmers in 82 Indian villages. The diffusion between farmers is then compared with demand that was revealed experimentall...