Following the intensification of agriculture and the promotion of agro-chemicals in low and middle income countries, acute pesticide poisoning has become a major public health problem with more than 300,000 deaths each year around the world. The easy availability of highly toxic pesticides in the homes of farming communities has made pesticides a preferred choice for suicide with an extremely h...

The study was conducted to document farmers' livelihood aspects and agribusiness potentials in wetland areas of Bangladesh. A total of 120 farmers and 24 service providers were interviewed for data collection. Most of the farmers were small farmers having less than 1.0 ha of cultivable land. The differences in productivity of crop farming and poultry rearing between wetland area and main land w...

The Appalachian mountains comprise a system of ranges that begins in Quebec, Canada, passes through New York, and reaches south along the U.S. eastern seaboard to Georgia and Alabama. Portions of the mountain system are in 12 states and include ranges such as the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. The land is heavily forested, rocky, and sparsely pop...

BACKGROUND In 2005, the Government of Senegal embarked on a campaign to eliminate a Glossina palpalis gambiensis population from the Niayes area (∼ 1000 km(2)) under the umbrella of the Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC). The project was considered an ecologically sound approach to intensify cattle production. The elimination strategy includes a suppression phas...

Riau Province has the largest oil palm plantation in Indonesia consisting of large national private plantations and community located various land typologies landscapes. Each landscape characteristics forest areas peat hydrological units that can affect level productivity. This study aims to determine carrying capacity environmental based on ecosystem services water flow flood management smallh...

Semi-organic rice farming utilizes natural ingredients and considers ecological health factors but still uses chemicals in a small proportion. It has become transition to organic farming. This research aims analyze the production costs, income, profit, feasibility of farming, identify marketing channels, efficiency semi-organic Bantul Regency. A total 60 farmers were selected using Multistage R...

The paper reports the first results of the EU funded Project WADI (Sustainability of European Irrigated Agriculture under Water Directive and Agenda 2000). The objective of the WADI project is to evaluate the economic, social and environmental sustainability of European irrigated farming under different scenarios concerning water policy and the Common Agricultural Policy. The methodology relies...

Namibia hosts the worldwide largest free-ranging cheetah population (Marker-Kraus et al. 1996) with 95% of this population roaming outside of protected areas on commercial farmland (Morsbach 1987, Marker-Kraus & Schumann 1998). Commercial livestock farming and trophy hunting have a large economic importance in Namibia and generate substantial income (Marker-Kraus et al. 1996, Barnes et al. 2001...

This study aims to analyze the farming income, household constraints, contribution of food security level, correlation between level and production as well cabbage farmers’ income. research has been carried out in village Dadapan Simpang Kanan, Sumberejo Sub District, Tanggamus Regency. is a survey involving 56 farmers selected using simple random sampling. Data were collected July-August 2019....

Patchouli (Progestemon Cablin Bent) is a plantation commodity, one of which has bright prospects in marketing. Income the acceptance received by community from every work done, either directly or indirectly form salaries, wages, rent, interest, profits and so on. Contribution support share, patchouli farming contribution to family income amount obtained overall farming. The purpose this study f...