Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is a highly productive tuber crop growing on marginal land, providing rural communities in India with nutritious food, as well as income generated by huge industrial demand for sago and starch. In Tamil Nadu (TN) alone it supports over 10,000 smallholder farmers. To sustain the livelihoods of this community of smallholder farmers, the Indo-Swiss Collaboration ...

Set in six rural communities in southern Hebei Province of China, the present study focuses on rural farmers’ access to, interests about and management of internet information. With the perspective of farmers, this empirical study attempts to understand the potential effects of information technology on agricultural information system and to capture its development prospect as well. The researc...

BACKGROUND Research has been scarce when it comes to the motivational and behavioral sides of farmers' expectations related to dairy herd health management programs. The objectives of this study were to explore farmers' expectations related to participation in a health management program by: 1) identifying important ambitions, goals and subjective well-being among farmers, 2) submitting those d...

The agricultural sectors in India and abroad have been affected extensively due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is necessary provide solutions for availability of resources, controlling cost, quality production, transparent food supply, fulfilling demand, removing intermediaries. structural reforms sector by adopting emerging technologies, especially blockchain technology (BCT) robotics automation...

This research was carried out to investigate the role of legal, philosophical, economic, environmental, educational attitudes and some personal characteristics in farmers' professionalism in the production of optimal wheat in the north of Khuzestan Province, Iran. The methodological approach in this research was casual relative and applied survey. The data were collected by a survey and a quest...