It is not my intention at this time to give the details of extended experiments upon soil sterilization and its effects; nor to enter any special criticisms upon the work of other investigators. I wish only to call attention to some facts, observations, and conditions of the work centered about cereal cropping, and experiments upon soils which may indicate that a new light may be thrown upon th...

Amid recent climate difficulties, integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) strategies are vital in restoring fertility, enhancing yield, and achieving the farmer community’s well-being. This study examines ISFM’s adoption impact on wheat yields Punjab, Pakistan, by employing an endogenous switching regression model (ESRM). The selection equation highlights multiple factors such as age, gende...

Economics has looked at the decision process of politicians but the decision process of agency staff has primarily been the purview of sociologists. Agencies affect the final form of regulations, they may enforce or ignore regulations that exist, and they provide information to the political process. Policies recommended by economists for nonpoint source pollution control are seldom supported b...

The government of Viet Nam places a high priority on upgrading the quality of farmers' lives. Providing adequate occupational safety and health (OSH) protection for all farmers is an important challenge. The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) of Viet Nam trained WIND (Work Improvement in Neighbourhood Development) farmer volunteers. From 2004-2007, MOLISA in cooperation wi...

With numerous challenges hindering smallholders’ adoption of externally developed technologies, it is often argued that farmer innovation can play an essential role in rural livelihoods. Yet a rigorous assessment of the impact of farmer innovation is lacking. We address this issue by analyzing the effect of farmer innovation on household welfare, measured by income, consumption expenditure, and...

A shrimp farmer in Taiwan practices innovation through trial-and-error for better income and a better environment, but such farmer-based innovation sometimes fails because the biological mechanism is unclear. Systematic field experimentation and laboratory research are often too costly, and simulating ground conditions is often too challenging. To solve this dilemma, we propose a decision suppo...

A critical step in the quantification of soil quality (SQ) is the selection of SQ benchmarks. The benchmarks used in this study were SQ ratings made by 32 farmer collaborators representing a range of farming systems, scales of operation and geographic locations in the Mid-Atlantic region of USA. Soils from 45 pairs of sites identified by their farmers as having good and poor SQ were sampled ove...

Bu çalışma ile Şanlıurfa’da gayeli örnekleme seçilen birbirine komşu köylerde belirli yıllarda tesadüfi 50 çiftçi üzerinde yapılan sörveylerle yağışa dayalı hububat tarımının yapısının incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Sörveyler 2002, 2015,2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 ve 2020 yıllarında il merkezine yaklaşık 25-30 km. uzaklıkta, kuzeydoğu yönünde yer alan Akçahisar, Çakmak, Gelibolu, Çömlekçi, Akpınar, Gölp...

This study examines the impact of contract farming with Farmer Organizations on farmers’ income. Contract farming with farmer organizations is a smallholder farmer-inclusive contract farming system. Field surveys were conducted in August 2010 with 75 farmers (including 39 contract farmers) in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia. The analysis—i.e., using a treatment effects model—indicates that cont...

to investigate factors affecting the adoption of conservation tillage systems, the tillage methods utilized by wheat producers in the central darab county are categorized into conventional, reduced-tillage and no tillage systems. for this purpose, multinomial logit model approach using the stata software was applied to the data set collected by random cluster sampling method. the explanatory va...