Farm Productivity
The CROPROTECT project and wider opportunities to improve farm productivity through web-based knowledge exchange
... There is increasing awareness of the important role played by farmer- to- farmer dissemination pathways for effective sharing. Scientists create knowledge but farmers decide what is best practice (Kindred 2015). Farmers ...
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Impact of Microfinance on Smallholder Farm Productivity in Tanzania: The Case of Iramba District
... smallholder farm productivity based on sunflower and ...and farm productivity between CB and NCB, where the farm productivity by the former group was persistently high compared ...
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Impact of farmer education on farm productivity under varying technologies: case of paddy growers in India
... state being 1.04 ha as per 2010 to 2011 census (Odisha Agriculture Statistics 2013–2014). In our sample also, most of the farmers belong to these two categories. Therefore, in a sub- sistence agriculture, the ...
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Review on Role and Challenges of Agricultural Extension Service on Farm Productivity in Ethiopia
... Farmers in industrialized countries have organized themselves in many different ways to serve their collective interest (Van den Ban and Hawkins ,1998). Such organizations play crucial roles in agricultural development ...
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Measurement of Farm Productivity of Rice: A Case of Bangladesh
... 12. Rasyid MN, Setiawan B, Mustadjab MM, Hanani N. Factors that influence rice production and technical efficiency in the context of an integrated crop management field school program. American Journal of Applied ...
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Economic Analysis of Resource Use and Productivity: A Case Study on Agriculture Farm
... and productivity of any activity. The farm management picture in India shows a greater change as a result of the green ...their farm productivity and increase the level of farms ...
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CAP Subsidies and the Productivity of EU Farms. Factor Markets Working Paper No. 37, March 2013
... on farm productivity is more ...on productivity in the majority of the EU-15 ...in farm support negatively affects farm efficiency, whereas the latter study finds that the Agenda 2000 ...
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Agricultural Credit Policy in India - Need for Shift from Supply-Led To Demand-Driven Credit
... enhance farm productivity and minimize production costs and put in place effective extension services that can disseminate proven and demonstrated technology among farmers and facilitate farmers adopt it by ...
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The Significance of Farm Size in the Evaluation of Labour Productivity in Agriculture
... labour productivity I does not contain all activity results of farms, for example costs covering non- production functions fi nanced with operation ...(Labour Productivity II), the diff erences between ...
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Farmers’ Perception and Adoption of Agroforestry Practices in Faridpur District of Bangladesh
... Abstract— This study mainly focused on exploring perception of farmers’ towards agroforestry practices and identifying the demographic factors influencing agroforestry adoption in Faridpur district. Field survey was ...
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Effect Of Biofortified Beans Adoption On Socio-Economic Welfare Of Farmers In Eastern Rwanda
... bean productivity, increase income, and reduce hidden hunger and improving rural livelihoods as it is recognized as an important source of human dietary protein and ...
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Reap the rewards from reseeding
... Organic farmers face challenges in terms of increasing output and maximising their returns. Grazed grass is the cheapest feed available to increase live-weight gain for grassland farmers. In grassland based organic ...
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Weaner production with low antimicrobial usage: a descriptive study
... each farm and divided by the number of weaner days multi- plied by ...the farm. Information on the number of wean- ers present in each farm was extracted from the Central Husbandry Register ...the ...
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Effects of different organic residues on carbon sequestration, nutrient availability in soil and maize yields at Katumani, Machakos county Kenya
... Presently, considerable attention is given to the potential of soils to act as C sinks (Knicker 2011). According to Martin et al., (2010), in the past few decades significant changes in climate and land use have caused ...
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Ethical Perspectives on Changing Agricultural Technology in the United States
... We think three types of changes are especially important: first, increases in agricul- tural productivity; second, changes in farm structure and in the character of r[r] ...
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Productivity and cost of farm tractor skidding
... the farm tractor skidding operation, trav- el empty and travel loaded collectively dominated the cycle time (Table ...the farm tractor productivity was affected by skidding ...A farm tractor ...
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PRODUCTIVITY IN RICE-WHEAT CROP ROTATION OF PUNJAB: AN APPLICATION OF TYPICAL FARM METHODOLOGY
... on following rice and wheat productivity through effect on soil fertility improvement and winter weed control. Berseem cannot be planted on large scale due to its low requirement and cannot replace wheat due to ...
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Technical efficiency and total factor productivity changes in European dairy farm sectors
... DEA was applied in this study in order to estimate changes in technical efficiency (TE), scale efficiency (SE), and total factor productivity (TFP) in European dairy farms. The decision to apply DEA rather than ...
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The ecology of mosquitoes in an irrigated vegetable farm in Kumasi, Ghana: abundance, productivity and survivorship
... the productivity of female Anopheles mosquitoes from suitable breeding ...mosquito productivity in such habitats ultimately determines the density of ...determining productivity of mosquito breeding ...
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Impact of water management on agricultural production
... This paper explores the impact of water management on output, labor, and capital growth for an agriculture-based developing economy like Pakistan. According to empirical findings, capital stock and labor force in the ...
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