abstract comparative advantage is an economic term which is used to compare potential and actual production capacity of a country in a given commodity with the rest of the world. therefore, researches in this field could have a dual approach. in one hand it could demonstrate country’s production capacity in the production of commodities that are not produced yet and in the other hand it can ill...

the purpose of this research was analysis of contents of extension and education in agricultural cooperatives in the lorestan province, iran. the population of study consisted of 832 members of agricultural cooperative in lorestan province, iran in which 260 people were selected as a sample size, using krejcie and morgan table. the results indicate that more than 66.92 percent of the agricultur...

OBJECTIVE To review the literature on environmental health impacts of tobacco farming and to summarise the findings and research gaps in this field. METHODS A standard literature search was performed using multiple electronic databases for identification of peer-reviewed articles. The internet and organisational databases were also used to find other types of documents (eg, books and reports)...

A low-input cropping system has been developed at Yurimiaguas, Peru, to serve as a transition technology between shifting and continuous cultivation for acid soiln of the humid tropics. Principal features are slash-andburn clearing, rotation of acid-tolerant upland rice and cowpea cultivars, maximum residue return, no tillage, and no lime or fertilizer apoiications. When yields decline as a res...

The “Agriculture, Countryside and Farmer” issues are an important content related to the country’s overall strategy, and to develop characteristic agriculture is the fundamental way to solve the “Agriculture, Countryside and Farmer” issues. The Hongyang kiwifruit industry in Cangxi County of Sichuan Province has played an important role in increasing farmers’ income, optimizing the agricultural...

one of the obstacles that has caused agricultural sector not to reach significant and expected growth is shortage of short, medium and long–term funds to finance various activities of this sector. this study aims at investigating the economic impacts of credits granted by agricultural bank on farmers on hirmand region. the statistical population of the survey included 4691 farmers of hirmand re...

The study of poverty and income in equality are the most important subjects of social/ economic research in agriculture sector. The present study focuses on poverty and income inequality among pistachio growers in Kerman province. Absolute poverty line, relative poverty line, poverty gap and intensity were calculated. Also income distribution was investigated using Ginny coefficient, Lorenz cur...

The main objective of CRP 1.1 Dryland Systems is to achieve sustainable agricultural development in the drylands. On the technical level, it will aim at reducing demand for water per unit crop area, improving water capture and storage, increasing productivity per unit of water at farm and landscape levels, and changing land-use practices to better manage risk and sustainably enhance production ...

Based on the Chinese statistics from 1976 to 2004, this paper conducts an empirical study on the relationship between reduction in agricultural tax and income growth of rural residents by using econometric methodologies of cointegration theory and error correction mechanism. The result reveals that the policy of reducing agricultural tax has a positive effect on the whole level of peasant’s inc...

The study was conducted to ascertain the potential feedstuffs available for livestock management in three senatorial districts of Cross River State, Nigeria. A total of 192 structured questionnaires were administered to sole livestock and crop-livestock farmers in 24 villages at eight per village. At collection only 176 were retrieved from the respondents representing the farm households. Data ...