Irrigated vegetable production is an important agricultural activity and a significant source of income for millions smallholder farmers in the Sahel. There little information on potential effects intensive using African Market Garden (AMG) technology yields soil chemical properties. Three contiguous 500-m2 plots were established to evaluate three management practices: (1) AMG, (2) Improved Man...

Smallholder agriculture involves millions of farmers worldwide. A methodical utilization of their traditional knowledge in modern breeding efforts may help the production of locally adapted varieties better addressing their needs. In this study, a combination of participatory approaches, genomics, and quantitative genetics is used to trace the genetic basis of smallholder farmer preferences of ...

the study was conducted among the two farmer groups in bhaktapur and kavre districts of nepal. the main objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of ipm ffs on creating awareness and disseminating the knowledge on sustainable pest management to the farmers and to assess the relationships between enhanced ipm knowledge and adoption of ipm strategies by the farmers. the study has be...

Recently, retailers who directly deal with poultry farmers increase in Japan. It therefore becomes necessary for the poultry farmers to deliver products to the retailers frequently in accordance with the retailers’ demand. The retailer purchases (raw) chicken meat from the poultry farmer. The stock of the poultry farmer increases due to growth, in contrast, the inventory level of the retailer i...

Kalcic, Margaret McCahon. Ph.D., Purdue University, December 2013. Adaptive Targeting: Engaging Farmers to Assess Perceptions and Improve Watershed Modeling, Optimization, and Adoption of Agricultural Conservation Practices. Major Professors: Jane Frankenberger and Indrajeet Chaubey. Targeting agricultural conservation practices to farmland that has the greatest impact on surface water quality ...

Participation is the encouragement and mental involvement of a person to contribute. Be responsible for his group increase awareness. Organize groups where individual characteristics differ from one another. The purpose study was determine level farmer participation relationship between members. method determining respondents using census method. Analyzing dependent variable independent variabl...

Economists attribute many common behaviors to risk aversion and frequently focus on how wealth moderates risk preferences. This paper highlights a problem associated with empirical tests of the relationship between wealth and risk aversion that can arise when the probabilities individuals face are unobservable to researchers. The common remedy for unobservable probabilities involves the estimat...

Development and application of modem technology for upgrading straw in Europe during the 1970's has stimulated intense interest in developing countries. Since 1980, twenty four international workshops have been held in Africa and Asia to consider research and development on crop residues as feed, with emphasis on improving their intake and digestibility in ruminants by treatment with ammonia ge...

In the process of traditional economy transforming into modern economy in china, farmer’s diversification phenomena has arisen and developed and will continue a long time in the future. Accordingly, the general economic type of farmer diversification will effect on the rural source allocation. The land use behavior characteristics of diversification farmer are the aims of the study. Theoretic a...