YiJinHuoLuo Banner is a county of Inner Mongolia with obvious semiarid monsoon climate. Because of unsuitable land use, such as cultivating marginal land and over pasture, desertification was getting severer and severer before 1974. Since 1974, People have been doing their best to grow woods, shrubs and grasses for increasing the coverage of vegetation. People have taken suitable and available ...

potential growth of dairy sector is highest and more reliable compared to crop sector, indicating that dairy sector can play vital role to increase income among farmers in rural areas than crop sector in sri lanka. credit and farmer training in management ability have been major concerns of dairy development efforts. therefore, this study wasconductedto assess the impact of credit and farmer tr...

This study analyzed the impact of off-farm earnings on the intensity of adoption of improved maize varieties and the productivity of maize farming in Uganda in the years 2005/06 and 2009/10. Summary statistics show significantly higher adoption intensity and expenditure on purchased inputs among households with off-farm income relative to their counterparts without off-farm income. Households w...

Potential growth of dairy sector is highest and more reliable compared to crop sector, indicating that dairy sector can play vital role to increase income among farmers in rural areas than crop sector in Sri Lanka. Credit and farmer training in management ability have been major concerns of dairy development efforts. Therefore, this study wasconductedto assess the impact of credit and farmer tr...

This paper reviews recent development of China’s agricultural domestic support policy, especially the transition from taxing farmers and agriculture to providing direct subsidies to grain production and purchased inputs. A model-based quantitative analysis on the effects of these policy changes has been conducted. Simulation results suggest that recent policy changes have likely achieved the de...

This paper analyses the status of rural informatization of China from different perspectives, including China’s development timeline, info-platform, resources, geography, and income; and puts forward some recommendations of development as follows: (1) Strengthening government promotion and infrastructure construction. (2) Increasing optimism and confidence of farmers. (3) Providing training and...

Applying a bio-economic whole farm model we assess the impact of price and weather risk as well as different risk management strategies on the variability of the income in Swiss suckler cow production. We consider different on-farm risk management strategies such as the flexible adjustment of herd size, fodder composition and feed stocks, as well as an income insurance. Our results show that wi...

the study was designed to investigate the income distribution among rice-based farming households in okigwe agricultural zone of imo state, nigeria. a sample of 120 rice-based farmers was selected by multistage sampling technique. data were collected with a well structured questionnaire administered to 120 randomly selected rice farmers. data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics...

this study was designed to investigate the demand for institutional credit among small scale farmers in imo state. a sample of 40 livestock and 50 food crop farmers were selected respectively using multistage random sampling technique. data were collected with a well structured questionnaire administered to a total of 90 randomly selected farmers. data collected were analyzed using descriptive ...