Farming Systems and Practices
A SURVEY OF INDIGENOUS FARMING SYSTEMS AND PRACTICES IN EBONYI STATE NIGERIA: IN SEARCH OF SUSTAINABLE PLANT DISEASE MANAGEMENT OPTIONS
... indigenous farming systems and practices were carried out using a random sampling method of the thirteen local government areas of the ...popular farming system comprise of Mixed ...
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Better Management Practices in Sugarcane Farming Systems
... I. INTRODUCTION Maharashtra is one of the leading states in sugar and sugarcane production in India. Sugarcane industry in Maharashtra is second largest agro- based industry next to cotton in which higher investment is ...
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Assessment of traditional agricultural practices in Nigeria for possible conversion to organic farming systems
... agricultural practices used for pest and soil fertility ...traditional practices for pest ...management practices was ...traditional practices to manage both insect and rodent ...indigenous ...
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Antimicrobial Use in Extensive Smallholder Livestock Farming Systems in Ethiopia: Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Livestock Keepers
... production systems in Thailand and Vietnam ...crop-livestock systems was the government or official veterinarians, whereas the pastoralists most commonly accessed drugs from private ...
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Measuring the unmeasurable? A method to quantify adoption of integrated pest management practices in temperate arable farming systems
... 303 Currently, gaps exist between farmer perception of the value of IPM and their actual practice. 304 Whereas farmer attitudes towards IPM are often positive, the practicalities and perceived 305 financial implications ...
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Farmers' ability to cope with salinity and sodicity: Farmers' perceptions, strategies and practices for dealing with salinity and sodicity in their farming systems
... Salinity and sodicity processes under different irrigation distribution scenarios can be the basis of a set of economic and physical ‘rules’. But the actual impact on soil salinity and sodicity at the and field level can ...
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Integrated Fish Farming Current Practices
... rice-fish farming and crop rotation in fish ponds have been well developed and practised in countries like China, Hungary, Germany and ...of farming systems, also provide huge quantities of organic ...
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Characteristics of farming systems in Albania
... Expenditure on seeds accounts for the main proportion of total expenditure of the family farm in Berat region, with the exception of specialised fruit tree farms. Meanwhile, the poly-culture for market farm group has the ...
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Exploring the multifundtional role of farming systems
... of farming practices are changing from a demand for environ- mentally “sustainable farming practices” to farming making an “enhanced contribution to the development of the rural areas”, ...
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Improved sugar-cane farming systems
... management practices on suppressiveness to plant- parasitic nematodes Plant-parasitic nematodes and other soil-borne pathogens do not multiply to the same level or cause the same amount of disease in all ...the ...
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A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems
... in farming systems typi- cally refers to a broader set of specific ...of farming systems and to give room for context-specific variation and surprise, it needs to be avoided that the ...
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Intensive farming systems: efficiency and innovation for sustainability
... North America consists of twenty-three countries of widely differing characteristics and it is meaningless to generalize about them. So just the two biggest countries by area, Canada and the United States of America ...
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best farming practices
... Scheme: Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) – England Eligibility: Similar to ELS. Open to farmers who manage either organic land or a mix of organic and non-organic land, and who are not receiving assistance under the Organic ...
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Adoption and intensity of adoption of conservation farming practices in Zambia
... Two policy variables are relevant for the adoption of CF: a dummy variable that indicates the districts where the Agricultural Support Programme (ASP) was implemented and the share of households in each standard ...
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Secondary and Micronutrient Management Practices in Organic Farming- An Overview
... Cropping System Management Crop rotation is the back bone of organic farming practices and is a must to keep the soil healthy and to allow the natural microbial systems working. Crop rotation is the ...
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Effects of Farming Practices on the Transfer of Phosphorus in Rural Catchments
... This range in EPC0 concentrations in the SS collected from the Holbach plots during storm events is very much greater than that measured in natural river systems. For example Jarvie et al. (2005) measured ...
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Scientific Dairy Farming Practices for the Semi-Arid Tropics
... Dairy Farming Practices for the Semi-Arid Tropics Rearing Systems Extensive system: Also known as the grazing system, animals are reared on external grazing alone, in which 90% of dry matter fed to ...
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Changing Farming Systems – Financial Implications for Farming Businesses
... % Figure 9: Difference in discounted net profit of introducing lucerne versus maintaining a lupin:wheat rotation, based on transition years using Bankwest benchmark district crop yield data Although this case study ...
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Profitability of Smallholder Sugarcane Farming Systems in Tanzania: A Comparative Analysis Between Block Farming and Traditional Farming Systems in Morogoro.
... Traditional Farming Systems the smallholder farmers are farming in small pieces of land, normally less than ...sugarcane farming depends also on effective coordination of various factors key ...
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Profitability of Organic Farming Systems
... Organic farming is a system of farming that must be sustainable. In order to maintain yields, nutrients need to be put back into the soil. Nitrogen is the main limiting element. This is achieved by a ...
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