Jin-Feng ZHONG, Xiao-Qing ZHANG, Wei-Gao WU, Wei TU, Zhen-Xiang LIU, Re-Jun FANG* College of Animal Science and Technology, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, P.R. China Hunan Co-Innovation Center of Animal Production Safety, Changsha, P.R. China Hunan Polytechnic of Environment and Biology, Hengyang, P.R. China Grassland Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohho...

The study examined the nexus of interest rate deregulation, lending rate and agricultural productivity in Nigeria by employing co-integration and error correction techniques on annual data spanning 1986 to 2009. Nigeria has embarked on several agricultural policy measures aimed at repositioning and enhancing variables that affects the sector’s productivity. The findings from the study showed th...

this study assessed of youth involvement in agricultural production in sabon gari local government area. the data used for this study were collected using interview schedule administered to 112 respondents who were selected through multi-stage sampling procedure. descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentages and means were used to analyze the data. the result revealed that majority (95....

Co-operatives are member driven and democratic in nature played a pioneering role providing agricultural credit to very large rural population, especially remote areas. The State Co-operative Banks (SCBs) the apex level co-operative institutions play significant functioning growth of structure respective states. Financial assistance from Reserve Bank India National for Agriculture Rural Develop...

Driven by global population and standard of living increases, humanity co-opts a growing share of the planet’s natural resources resulting in many well-known environmental trade-offs. In this study, we explored the impact of agriculture on a resource fundamental to life on Earth: terrestrial vegetation growth (net primary production; NPP). We demonstrate that agricultural conversion has reduced...

This paper attempts to examine the physical and financial performance of some primary dairy co-operatives in west Bengal state in Indian context. The study suggests that financial performance indicators dominate over physical ones, and all the dominating variables have long term positive impact on primary milk producers’ co-operative societies (PMPCSs). Also, the significant impact of financial...