INTRODUCTION: Soybean offers a variety of potential benefits to the production systems, diets, and incomes of smallholder producers. In addition to being a potentially profitable cash crop, the high protein content (about 40%) in soybean means it could also contribute to improved nutritional status of rural households. Finally, soybean also has potential agronomic benefit of rejuvenating soils ...

Present paper is an application study of intuitionistic fuzzy optimization technique in agricultural production planning problem particularly a case of smallholder farmer in north Bihar, India. Generally, the crop planning problem is formulated as linear programming problems. but in realistic situation there are many uncertain factors in agricultural production planning problems and hence futur...

This paper investigates the degree of market orientation of participants in the fresh produce marketing channel in Zimbabwe and the extent to which it is influenced by environmental uncertainty. The results generally support previous research that has shown that market orientation is positively related to perceived environmental uncertainty. There was a generally high degree of market orientati...

15/35 Abstract Crop production on smallholder agricultural land must increase considerably if the growing world population is to be fed. To achieve this, affordable soil testing methods, fertilizer recommendations and the accessibility of optimal fertilizers containing the required nutrients are required. The SoilCares mobile laboratory offers affordable soil testing using infrared spectroscopy...

Smallholder Global Value Chain Participation: The Role of Aggregation by Eva Szalkai Csaky Public Policy Studies Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Frederick Mayer, Supervisor ___________________________ Gary Gereffi _________________________ Anirudh Krishna _______________________ Phyllis Pomerantz An abstract of a dissertation submitted in parti...

Conservation agriculture (CA) is promoted as a cropping system that has potential to alleviate poor crop yields in smallholder farming while protecting the environment. It involves maintenance of permanent soil cover, diverse crop rotations and/or interactions; and minimum soil disturbance. CA is associated with crop residue management challenges due to low crop biomass yields and crop-livestoc...

Feed costs account for nearly 70 to 80% of the total production costs as nearly all ingredients used in feed manufacturing in Botswana are imported. Therefore, complete feeds are expensive and out of reach of smallholder poultry farmers who lack economies of scale and access to credit. This makes the prospects of utilising insects as a source of protein feasible because they are available throu...