This study investigated the occupational safetypractices among smallholder farmers in Ile-Ife area of Osun State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected from 220 randomly selected farmers using pre-tested and validated structured interview schedule. Information was collected on demographic, socio-economic characteristics and safety practices of the respondents. The data were summarized using freq...

this study is aimed at evaluating and measuring the factors affecting the dezful wheat farmers` attitude toward the extension of wheat waste reduction. the method of research was correlative- descriptive. the population of this study is all farmers cultivated wheat in dezful from 2011 to 2012 (n=5291). the number of samples size was 360 based on krejcie and morgan table. panel of experts and al...

Genetically modified trees are now one more expression of human intervention in nature. As for other people is a suicidal mood at the cost of profit maximization, for others is an inevitable trend for the survival of continuing growing world population that gathers several advantages, a survey of those directly involved in the primary sector, farmers, and deemed necessary. The implementation of...

Tsetse flies are vectors of blood parasite of the genus Trypanosoma, which causes African trypanosomiasis to both human beings and animals. Large losses due to nagana have been reported; and this indicates the importance of tsetse control to avoid estimated losses. This study assessed the knowledge of tsetse and control practices, attitude towards control practices against tsetse, and the actua...

Purpose This paper examines the attitude of UK pig farmers to the delivery of improved farm animal welfare standards and investigates how they contribute to this objective through their membership of a range of different farm assurance schemes. Design/methodology/approach The analysis focuses on three main groups of pig farmers: (i) farmers engaged in conventional farm assurance schemes; (ii) f...

This study evaluates a survey about Swedish farmers' attitude towards genetically modified (GM) crops, and their perception concerning potential benefits and drawbacks that cropping of an insect resistant (IR) GM variety would involve. The questions were "tick a box" choices, included in a yearly omnibus survey sent to 1000 Swedish farmers (68% response rate). The results showed that a majority...