With economic growth and social change, leisure activities have become a key to satisfy the public’s recreational needs. Tourism industries of leisure agricultural areas combining industry, culture, leisure, and living have transformed into a drive to boost local economies. Thus, this study aimed to probe into the development factors and conditions of international tourism levels in leisure agr...

— This paper presents an empirical analysis that addresses recent work seeking ‘‘win– win–win’’ scenarios for economic development, poverty reduction and environmental sustainability. I focus on arguments for ‘‘productive conservation’’ in forest frontier regions, namely raising rural incomes while conserving the forest resource base. The analysis examines the impacts of agricultural product an...

A flexible system for determining the quality of agricultural products based on characteristics such as, for example, mass, shape, hardness, size, color and surface texture is disclosed herein. The quality determination apparatus includes a feeder assembly for sequentially dropping individual product samples upon an impact transducer arrangement. The impact transducer generates transducer signa...

This study examines whether the random allocation of single and joint saving accounts to cash crop farmers in rural Ethiopia is associated with changes decision-making authority control over resources that ultimately lead labor effort, schooling allocations, income, consumption, agricultural investments, output. Women children work more when deposit are available. Likewise, meaningful effects o...