Farming methods
Investigating discouraging and encouraging emic reasons to apply eco-efficient farming methods
... Several parallel concepts to explain the phenomenon of lost soil fertility can be observed. These concepts could be intertwined or standing beside each other. Whereas spirits are enabled and empowered to care for the ...
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An eagle eye: Africa in the 20th Century as viewed through the archives of Barclays Bank
... In the wider field of Britain’s colonial development policies, the essayists also suggested the extension of co-operative farming methods in Many African territories, [r] ...
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Assessment of extension media use among youth farmers in Oyo and Ondo states, Nigeria
... Extension is a system that helps in improving the knowledge of farmers to improve their farming methods and adopting a new practice with a view to increasing their standard of living. Through extension ...
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... Given the growing importance of organic food production, there is a pressing need to understand the relative environmental impacts of organic and conventional farming methods. This study applies ...
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History Grade 5: Term Topic: The first farmers in Southern Africa
... The first farming communities had a lot in common with the Khoikhoi herders. Both groups ate shellfish when they lived at the coast, both hunted animals and both needed grazing land for their cattle. The Khoikhoi ...
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NEED, CHALLENGES AND VALUE ADDITION METHODS IN CULTIVATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS – A REVIEW .......
... agriculture farming: This agriculture farming methods based on gravity of the environmental degradation, arising from faulty practices has set several experts in the field to focus attention on ...
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Aquaculture: Its Prospects for the 1980s
... Future employment will depend, not only on the total output of the industry, but also.on the speei.es cultivated and the farming methods used¯ The N]3ST projects ful.l-tin’~e employment [r] ...
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Organic Farming: To Pursue or Not to Pursue? An Exploratory Study Based on Evidence from Bangladesh
... organic farming methods are healthier because of “higher antioxidant concentrations, lower cadmium concentrations and lower pesticide residues in organically grown crops” (Barański, et ...best ...
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PERCEPTION, APPROACHES AND PRACTICES OF LOCAL FARMING AND DEVELOPMENT: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH
... of farming in designing and implementation of development ...modern farming methods, due to which they are being abandoned by the ...Modern farming which is representative of development has ...
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Effect of Co-Operatives on the Livelihoods of Rural Sirisia Constituency in Bungoma County, Kenya
... The types of farm products and input supply have an implication on the socio- economic livelihood of the people in the sense that the opportunities are created apart from the real farm related activities. The people’s ...
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Contributions of organic farming to a sustainable environment
... conventional farming on a relative ...organic farming ranks much better (++), better (+), equal (0), worse (-), or much worse (—) than conventional farming with regard to specific environmental ...
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Agricultural Diversification And Food Security: A Case Of Smallholder Farmer In Kano State, Nigeria
... mixed farming), the results were presented at bivariate which include linear correlation of the independent variable on the dependent variable and at multivariate level the pertinent hypotheses derived from ...
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Socioeconomic Determinants of Sustainability of Agricultural Production in Rural Areas: A Case Study in Golestan Province
... grated farming systems involving economic, environ- mental, and social factors (Edwards et ...sustainable farming systems have accompanied with the rising inter- est in the assessment criteria for ...
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EXTENSION APPROACHES IN THE PROMOTION OF MELIA VOLKENSII IN LOWER EASTERN, KENYA
... [20] Muturi, G.M., Mutua G.K. and Maingi F.M. (2003). Inter-specific variation of biomass production and root morphology among 20 drylands species after 15 months of growth in an arid site in Kitui district, Kenya: ...
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Malaria among rice farming communities in Kilangali village, Kilosa district, Central Tanzania: prevalence, intensity and associated factors
... The prevalence of P. falciparum malaria observed varied significantly according to age and sex, with the youngest age groups having a higher prevalence of malaria. Recent studies in the same district [21, 22] and ...
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A case study on the use of legume crop rotations in sugarcane
... new farming system on farm ...in farming practice across the whole business, rather than focusing on one single ...a farming system change, it is important to have a detailed plan and an accurate ...
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02carolinaforum.pdf
... The Graham Center offered training and educational programs to low income farmers, and experimented with alternative methods appropriate to small scale farming.. About a year ago, the Gr[r] ...
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THE ORGANIC FARMING FROM SMALL HOLDER FARMERS GENERAL PERSPECTIVE
... This submission attempts to highlight what the author considers very important and could be in various activities pertaining to smallholder organic farmers.Origin and development of organic farming. Tools and ...
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Organising organic: a Foucauldian analysis of the regulation of organic food production
... Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food 2002 Farming & Food: a Sustainable Future, Report of the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food,.. RPA 2006 Cross Complia[r] ...
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Exploring the multifundtional role of farming systems
... While the view of a farm as a production process is appropriate to operationalize pa- rameters for production and farm economy, it is less suited to operationalize external- ities that have a major normative component. ...
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