Objectives—To confirm or refute the hypothesis that organic farmers have higher sperm concentrations than traditional farmers. Methods—Traditional and organic farmers were selected randomly from central registers, and 171 traditional farmers and 85 organic farmers delivered one semen sample before the start of the spraying season. The participation rate was 28.8% among traditional farmers and 4...

The purpose of this service activity is to increase the knowledge regarding white snapper cultivation using modular technology aquaculture farmer group in West Lancang Village, North Aceh District. This used a survey, educative, participatory, and persuasive methods. community consists several stages, namely: 1) counseling on techniques carried out manner starting from nursery harvest 2) busine...

A partnership is an effort to involve various components work together toward a common goal. This study aims analyze the implementation of between farmers and PT Bloom Agro level farmers’ satisfaction with company. was conducted in January-February 2020 at Bangkit Merbabu Farmer Group Association, Getasan Subdistrict, Semarang Regency. used case method sample size 50 respondents who were determ...

BACKGROUND Pesticide consumption is increasing in Bolivia as well as pest resistance, pesticide poisonings and pollution of the environment. This survey evaluates the training of small holder farmers on pesticide handling and ecological alternatives to reduce the negative pesticide effects. METHOD A baseline survey was performed in 2002 and follow-up surveys in 2004 and 2009. Farmers were sel...

The study was conducted to assess the impact of conservation agriculture practice on livelihood status of farmers in Bangladesh. A total of 300 farmers (50 focal, 100 proximal and 150 control) from five districts (Mymensingh, Bogra, Tangail, Sherpur and Jamalpur) were selected. Focal farmers were selected purposively; and proximal and control farmers were selected randomly. Descriptive statisti...

The chapter present the report of a study that examined information needs and seeking haviour of farmers in Laduba community, Kwara State, Nigeria. This study adopted a survey research design using simple sampling technique to select 28 respondents from the population. Structured questionnaire was designed for the collection of data. It was discovered from the findings that majority of the farm...

Although farm biosecurity reduces the risk of disease spread among livestock, this knowledge is not always applied. Farmers' application of disease preventive measures is expected to depend on many things, e.g. whether they consider disease prevention possible and demographic factors. In this study, Swedish livestock farmers' perspectives on occurrence, control and communication related to infe...