D U R I N G T H E 4 YEARS of its operation, the food stamp plan, administered by the Food Distribution Administration of the U . S. Department of Agriculture, enabled large numbers of families throughout the United States to improve their diets. Although the plan was established in May 1939, at a time of food surpluses, primarily to increase agricultural income by increasing the demand for surp...

This article analyzes why the USDA’s Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) experiences contract withdrawals. Among approved contracts, 17%withdrew one ormore conservation practices. After presenting a model of producers’ behavior, a logit model is used to examine thewithdrawalphenomenon.Withdrawals are linked toproducershaving an incentive to include low cost-share payments and practi...

This study assessed whether community participation in health related activity was a reality or just popular development rhetoric. Using action research methodology, focus group discussions and informal contacts were made with farm workers consisting of twelve families in Umkomaas, south of Durban in the province of Kwa Zulu Natal. The aim was to establish whether this community could be active...

abstract using tobit model, this study investigated factors affecting on crop risk frequency of farmers in the north khorasan province. data was collected through interviewing 120 farmers of north khorasan province in 2008. results showed that age, farm ownership and off farm employment affected frequency of risk negatively. non-agricultural activity, participating in a crop supervisory plan an...

Low-input cropping systems were introduced in Western Europe to reduce the environmental impacts of intensive farming, but some of their benefits are offset by lower yields. In this paper, we review studies that used Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to investigate the effects of reducing external inputs on the eco-efficiency of cropping systems, measured as the ratio of production to environmental i...

The aim of this modelling study was to investigate the effect of large herd size (and land areas) on walking distances and milking interval (MI), and their impact on milk yield and economic penalties when 50% of the total diets were provided from home grown feed either as pasture or grazeable complementary forage rotation (CFR) in an automatic milking system (AMS). Twelve scenarios consisting o...

Abstract Background: Farm-level models have become an important tool for agricultural economists as there is a growing demand microsimulation and analysis of farms at the individual level. Objectives: In this paper, we present mathematical model with main objective assessing effectiveness production various possible strategies holdings by reducing risks. At same time, were also interested in en...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the major legume crops grown in Pakistan having a considerable importance as a food, feed and fodder but due to imbalanced use of fertilizers its production is low. To find the optimum level of Phosphorus and FYM for chickpea and study their effect on agronomic characteristics an experiment was carried out at the Agricultural Research Farm of NWFP Agricul...