Aims: This research work examined the use of agricultural extension information to mitigate soil degradation in Ondo Central senatorial district of Ondo state, Nigeria. The study identified significant sources of soil degradation in the study area, determine how often the farmers...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/42324
This study attempts to investigate the economics of tomato production in Moulvibazar district in Bangladesh. In this study, both economic models of description and statistical analysis were used to analyse the data. It was found that tomato cultivation was a profitable business i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/42365
The present study entitled “Apple cultivation in Kullu district of Himachal Pradesh: A cost analysis” has been carried out in two selected blocks i.e Banjar and Naggar of Kullu District in Himachal Pradesh by taking representative samples of 70 farmers. The farmers having less th...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/32644
The study determined the level of resource used efficiency among Cassava farmers in Ilesa West Local Government Area of Osun State, Nigeria. Simple random sampling technique was used to collect data from 50 respondents from four selected wards in the Local Government Area. The da...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/40578
This study was undertaken to analyses the impacts of multiple socioeconomic and biophysical factors influencing food crop production in Mbiame, North West Region of Cameroon. To show this, we used a comprehensive data of socioeconomic and biophysical environment to investigate th...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/41642
The study assessed the awareness and utilization of improved plantain production technologies for combating food insecurity among plantain household farmers in Abia State. Random sampling technique was used to select 60 respondents. Structure questionnaire was used for data colle...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/41346
Introduction: Out of the total net cropped area of 28.10 lakh hectares in Assam, only 1.96 lakh hectares is under double cropping despite the implementation of “Mission Double Cropping” with a fixed target of covering 2.09 lakh hectares in the state. Double cropping is not a new...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/40906
Self-Help Groups (SHGs) play an important role in empowering and economic development of society, especially for the powerless and poor rural community. Empowerment of rural community by developing entrepreneurial skills is the only solution to lower down these inequalities. Invo...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/31607
In the present study we have suggested a newly modified ratio estimator for estimating the population variance by utilizing the auxiliary information of Downton's method. Properties associated with proposed estimators are assessed by mean square error and bias through numerical d...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/41963
In the face of recent devastating flash floods in 2016 and 2017 in the north-east wetlands of Bangladesh, locally known as haor, where 70% of the crops were damaged as an effect of climate change; the study was undertaken to identify the farming practices well adapted to this var...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/41781