The farmers generally burn the rice residue to vacate their fields for the timely sowing of wheat, because residues interfere with tillage and seeding operations. In Haryana, approximated 27.83 million tons of agricultural residues are produced and out of which 11.22 million ton...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v34i330203
Agricultural extension is a communication network linking different stakeholders in agriculture to improve their productivity and Information Communication Technology (ICT) has been utilised as an extension tool for enhancing information flow between agricultural extension servic...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v34i330202
Rapid urbanization, industralization, land grabbing and dwindling land resources is fast eroding the practice of home gardening in peri-urban areas. This has altered the dietary intake pattern of peri-urban households who hitherto could augment their meals from products of garden...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v34i330201
Farmers need dynamic information relating to agriculture and rural development. Therefore, to satisfy the need of information and knowledge, Reuters Market Light (RML) offers highly customized and localized agricultural related information service. RML provides information servic...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v34i330200
This project work dealt with the Economics of Plantain Production in Calabar Agricultural zone, Cross River State. The specific objectives of the research were to examine the socio economic characteristics of plantain farmers, identify the different farming practices in the area,...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v34i330199
The present study was conducted to assess the food security status of dairy farmers in haor areas of Sunamganj district, Bangladesh. Food security index and binary logistic regression analysis were applied to analyze the data and data were collected by face to face interview of r...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v34i230198
The present study was conducted to analyse the constraints faced by the farmers in the adoption and marketing of ELS cotton production technology. The study was taken up in two blocks of Vellore district namely, Tirupattur and Kandhili blocks of Tamil Nadu. The sample size of 132...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v34i230196
The study investigated the determinants loan repayment in the two selected districts of Kongwa in Dodoma region and Kilombero in Morogoro region of Tanzania. The objective of the study was to identify the determinants of agro-credit repayment of small-holder farmers in Tanzania....
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v34i230209
Aims: Farmers of Bangladesh use a less amount of urea fertilizer compared to the nutrient requirement and soil fertility status. Hence, a significant gap between actual and recommended doses of fertilizers used by farmers have been reported in many instances. Therefore, this stu...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v34i230195
Linear programming was applied to farm data collected from 120 smallholder farmers in 2017/18 cropping season in agricultural zone four (4) of Adamawa state, Nigeria for the purpose of identifying optimal crop mix to maximize revenue. A total of twenty (20) cropping enterprises w...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v34i230194