In Thailand, agriculture is one of the major occupations; however, there is no comprehensive agricultural occupational health promotion and disease prevention model available. Objectives of this study were to empower farmers to study occupational health and safety situation in rice farming and to develop model to promote their health and prevent occupational health hazards among them. This part...

Abstract The rice cultivation business is dominated by small farmers with average land ownership of less than one hectare. Consequently, all efforts that have been made were unable to improve the farmer’s welfare. a problem in applying mechanization, technology adoption, and management efficiency. consolidation agricultural system form an agricultural, institutional model essential be developed...

Rice paddies are artificial wetlands that supply people with food and provide wildlife with habitats, breeding areas, shelters, feeding grounds and other services, and rice paddies play an important part in agricultural ecological systems. However, modern agricultural practices with large-scale intensive farming have significantly accelerated the homogenization of the paddy field ecosystem. Mod...

The study examined the factors influencing accessibility of Anchor Borrowers Programme (ABP) Fund among Rice Farmers in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Specifically, it describes socio-economic characteristics respondents, assesses operation ABP, and identifies some constraints encountered by rice farmers accessing ABP fund. Data collected were analysed using descriptive statistical tools such as freque...

Options to tackle the sustainability challenges faced in the production of rice, including global and local environmental perspectives, need to be discussed. Here, the global warming potential, water consumption and cumulative energy demand were analyzed using a life-cycle assessment to highlight the sustainability aspects of rice production in Taiwan, where a mixed organic and conventional ric...

The youth unemployment situation is an essential component of the current agricultural policy agenda Federal Government Nigeria. Deep-rooted debates on finding a lasting solution to this problem using agriculture have been targeted as one panaceas. Using data from 207 systematically selected rice-producing households, study employed Propensity Score Matching method (PSM) and Inverse Probability...

Coastal agriculture is vulnerable to climate change, thereby may affect food production systems and security in Bangladesh. Methane (CH4) emission from coastal wetlands rice farming a major environmental concern due its global warming potential. Therefore, field experiments were conducted at the southern region of Shyamnagar, Satkhira, investigate feasibility Rice-Shrimp Rice-Crabs mixed for ad...

All is not well with agriculture in Southeast Asia. The productivity gains of the Green Revolution have slowed and even reversed and environmental problems and shortages of water and land are evident. At the same time changing world markets are shifting the dynamics of national agricultural economies. But from the point of view of farmers themselves, it is their season-to-season economic surviv...

A key global 21st century challenge is to maximize agricultural production while minimizing use of resources such as land, water, and energy to meet rising demand for produce. To meet this challenge, while also adapting to climate change, agriculture will have to become more knowledge intensive and deploy smarter farming techniques. The intention of this study was to: (1) Highlight the opportun...

Gunungkidul Regency is one of the districts that developed dry land red rice farming. Semin and Panggang sub-districts are develop varieties at Inpari 24 Segreng. This study aims to determine costs, income, profits, feasibility farming Segreng variety in Regency. The number respondents this were 250 using Simple Random Sampling technique, consisting 150 from farmers 100 farmers. Data was collec...