Small-scale farmers
Poultry production and rural poverty among small scale farmers in Mzimba District of Malawi
... among small scale farmers and how poultry production affects poverty is imperative for appropriate policy choices, program or reform management towards welfare shift in rural agrarian economy like ...
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Diversity of shifting cultivation cycles among small scale farmers in Peruvian Amazon
... land. Farmers focused mainly on annual cropping employ a significantly shorter fallow period and thus higher rate of forest deg- radation ...tainable, farmers should either continue using a longer natural ...
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Role Of Animal Traction Technology On Profitability And Income Of Small Scale Farmers In Kebbi State, Nigeria
... smallholder farmers who accounted for over 90% of the country’s agricultural ...the farmers who are poor and lives in rural ...among small scale farmers for improving income has not ...
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Value Chains and Global Inequalities: Plantain, Contract Farming, and Vulnerability of the Small Scale Farmers in Colombia (Discussion Paper)
... At the same time, in recent years, the farms have been affected by the effects of climatic events, including windstorms and floods, as well as drought. Due to its topographic characteristics, Antioquia presents frequent ...
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Assessment of small scale farmers need and utilization of mechanization implements in western Oromia, Ethiopia
... the farmers have no any chance to hear the economic advantage of technologies to value because there is no implements of which their economic profitability have been done properly in the centers until now, which ...
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The role of property rights to grazing lands in small scale farmers development in he Kat river valley
... Some users indicated that they gained access through land invasions, while others obtained it from the local committee. Users only exercised use rights to this land and other rights including transfer and exclusion were ...
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The role of micro finance institutions in alleviating poverty among small scale farmers in Kenya: evidence from small scale wheat farming in moiben division, uasin gishu county
... grown scale lands and it was introduced by Lord Dalamere in the cool highlands of the Rift scale farmers grow wheat in Currently, Rift valley produces the bulk of the country’s wheat output of more ...
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New knowledge networks of small scale farmers in Europe’s periphery
... of small-scale farming, structural changes in European agriculture favour larger-scale farms (Zegar, 2012; European Commission, ...Smaller scale farms not only lack economies of scale, ...
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Small scale farmers’ knowledge and perceptions of maize insect pests and their management in highveld and middleveld regions of Swaziland
... if small scale farmers are to obtain high yields of maize (Jacobson and Myrh, ...2010). Farmers are more likely to assess a technology with criteria and objectives, which are different from ...
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Farmers’ perceptions of pollinators’ importance in coffee production in Uganda
... Uganda. Farmers have very limited knowledge on pollination and pollinators; they often take pollinators for ...Most farmers said “these insects are just there, they are part of creation and nature but they ...
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Performance Evaluation of Bedene Alemtena Small Scale Irrigation Scheme in Hallaba Special Woreda, Southern Ethiopia
... Alemtena small scale irrigation scheme using internal and external performance ...three farmers’ field situated at the upper, middle, and downstream of the main ...
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Integrating a participatory approach with simulation modelling to improve smallholder maize systems in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia
... that farmers may possibly consider in the future when making decisions related to maize production under their local environment, which is characterised by highly variable and uncertain ...
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Impact of large scale organic conversion on food production and food security in two Indian states, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh
... the small and the marginal farms in India as most often the NGOs or companies promot- ing organic organize free training, extension and help certi fi cation on a group ...
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Integrating microalgae into the Brazilian program for biodiesel production and use
... The farmers providing biodiesel feedstocks were formerly engaged in subsistence farming and the importance remains of not impairing their ability to continue to grow food for their own ...use. Farmers ...
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How can the poor benefit from the growing markets for high value agricultural products?
... It has been argued that the growth of HVA may have implications for food prices (Muendo and Tschirley, 2004; Narayan and Gulati, 2005). Namely, that by diverting land and labour from staple food-crop production, the ...
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Automation of Small Scale Industries
... the small scale industries that contrary to their names account to nearly half of the entire GDP of our ...in small scale manufacturing however the design can be modified to suit the specific ...
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America's red gold: multiple lineages of cultivated cochineal in Mexico
... One of these populations appears to be Mexican in ori- gin, while the other is more closely related to Peruvian cochineal. Moreover, the distinctiveness between the “Mexican” and “Peruvian” clades suggests long-term iso- ...
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Alternative food networks and value creation : the case of farmers markets in New Zealand : a 152 800 thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Studies at Massey University
... lengths small-scale food producers will go to in order to create and realise symbolic ...that small-scale food producers are required to commit in order to realise some form of value surplus ...
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Information systems and communication networks for agriculture and rural people
... rolls et al. (1999) analyzed the information sys- tems in czech agriculture. The information system appeared to be the construct of the personal char- acteristics of the farmers. The farmers appeared to ...
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A critical review of small scale irrigation in ethiopia: prospects and challenges
... for farmers who produce market oriented high value crops using motorized pumps for their irrigation ...where farmers could not afford to manage the ...for small scale ...rural farmers ...
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