The aim of this study is to determine the characteristics of the market structures and methods of measuring the concentration which are the most important issues of economics in recent period. Knowing the market structure and setting the level of competition is important for the...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/36066
The present study was conducted in mid altitude areas comprising of villages viz-Chek-Sadipora, Sadipora and Narvav of district Shopian of Jammu and Kashmir with sample size of 60 apple growers. The district Shopian was purposively selected, because of the potentiality for the de...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/33707
This study aims to assess the structural changes of land use pattern and cropping pattern in the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu. We used panel data of land use pattern and area under different crops inclusion of irrigated and unirrigated area from 1960-61 to 2012-13. The collec...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35450
A study was carried out to identify farmers’ preferred cowpea traits and assess their knowledge on the role of grain legume in improving soil fertility in cropping systems in the humid forest zone (HFZ) of Cameroon. This study was conducted at five sites (Asso'oseng, Nkoemnvone,...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35751
The Indian handloom industry demonstrates the richness and diversity of Indian culture, but the incidence of poverty in Handloom households is prominent. The per capita income limit to fix the poverty line was considered as Rs. 12984 per person in the present study. Accordingly l...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35597
Aims: Assessing the level of favourable attitude towards the activities of watershed development project and impact of attitude on extracting benefits from the project. Study Design: Before-after study design. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in Rangamati wat...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35433
The study examined the Analysis of factors affecting marketing of kola in Ogun State, Nigeria. Data were collected from Three Local Government Areas of Ogun State namely, Ijebu North, Odogbolu and Sagamu where 60 kola marketers in each of the kola markets in the area were randoml...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/16701
This study investigated the perceived training needs of smallholder rice farmers on urea deep placement (UDP) technology in Benue State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 162 rice farmers by using a well-structured questionnaire administered to the respondents. Descriptive statis...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35666
Economic development is the effect for which entrepreneurship is caused. Economic development essentially means a process of change in income of the people in society, which directly leads to upward change in real per capita income of a country. Entrepreneurship has an important...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/34536
The Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), defined as a semi-autonomous decentralized participatory and market-driven extension model represents a shift away from transferring technologies for major crops to diversifying output. As the ATMA programme is under operation...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35795