this study examined the effect of urbanization on agricultural production in abia state. specifically, it categorized the land tenancy status of the farmers, analyzed the effect of urbanization on agricultural productivity and identified the constraints to agricultural productivity. multistage random sampling technique was used to select the respondents. primary data collected using structured ...

in the developing countries, where introduction and subsequent adoption of improved technologies is too slow to counteract the adverse effects of varying environmental conditions, there are increasing demands for meteorological information by farmers who are seriously in need of weather forecast information for their prompt operational decisions. the purpose of this study was to determine the f...

Around the world, peasant populations continue their traditional livelihoods in the face of increasingly global economic transformation. In Iran, as elsewhere, agriculture is one of the most important economic sectors and majority of farmers are peasants who still farm small plots of land, usually in marginal environments utilizing traditional and subsistence methods, while their contribution t...

In order to assess sex differences in body physique in Santhals, a cross sectional sample of 800 adult Santhals (400 males and 400 females) was collected from West Bengal (India) using multistage cluster random sampling. The present study aims to explore the body physique of Santhals of West Bengal, where both males and females do backbreaking labor work. This type of research is rare in tribal...

BACKGROUND Healthy diet for maintaining a healthy weight and prevention of chronic disease is vital at all stages of life. The purpose of this study was to determine the nutritional knowledge, attitude, and practice among urban and rural households in Iran. METHODS In this nation-wide study, 14,136 subjects were selected using a multistage cluster sampling method from 31 provinces of Iran. Th...

PURPOSE To evaluate the prevalence of pterygium and its determinants in the underserved, rural population of Iran. METHODS In this cross-sectional study of 3851 selected individuals, 86.5% participated in the study, and the prevalence of pterygium was evaluated in 3312 participants. A number of villages were selected from the north and south of Iran using multistage cluster sampling. Pterygiu...

Nutrition is a dominant peripheral factor in increasing blood pressure; however, little information is available about the nutritional status of hypertensive patients in Iran. This study aimed to compare nutritional behaviors of the rural controlled and uncontrolled hypertensive patients and to determine the predictive power of nutritional behaviors from blood pressure. This cross-sectional stu...