Aim: This study analyzed the profit efficiency and poverty status of rice farmers in selected rice growing communities in Cross River State, Nigeria. Methodology: The multistage random sampling was used to select rice farming households in the study area. Primary data were collec...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v30i130098
This study analysed improved breadfruit (Treculia africana) awareness and adoption situation in Southeast Nigeria. It examined farmers’ budded breadfruit awareness and adoption status and their willingness to adopt the innovation. The study also identified the reasons why farmers...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v29i430094
The relevance of intra-household division of labor for overall household wellbeing is common knowledge, especially among development practitioners from the developing world. While division of labor acquired a newer impetus as a consequence of a strong and emerging gender narrativ...
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Research Article10.9734/ajaees/2019/v29i430095
Community-based seed production has a potential for improving farmers' access to quality seed of locally adapted and preferred varieties. Besides, Seed Producing Cooperatives (SPCs) are fully engaged in formal seed production as contract out-growers to public enterprises that ben...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2019/43513
Dairy cattle and buffalo marketing in India is highly unorganized and their market prices are negotiated with hidden secret codes in livestock markets. In this context, the present study was carried out with the objective of identifying the pattern of sales of dairy animals and t...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2019/44772
Poverty is multifaceted in nature and its measurement based on uni-dimensional is insufficient to explain the various deprivations experienced by the poor. Using the Alkire and Foster’s multidimensional methodological approach, this study confirmed that multidimensional approach...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2019/47192
This study assessed the impact of rising international market prices of rice on real household income and poverty in Senegal. Net benefit ratio indicator developed by Deaton (1989) to assess the impact of a change in the international rice price on household welfare were used in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2019/46688
Chemical fertilizers have played a vital role in the success of India's Green Revolution and consequent self-reliance in foodgrain production. The increase in fertilizer consumption has contributed significantly to sustainable production of foodgrains in the country. In the India...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2019/47503
Aims: This study assessed the effect of agricultural marketing extension on control of post-harvest losses of root and tuber crop produce in Abia State. Study Design: This study employed a public opinion survey. Place and Duration of Study: This study was conducted in Abia State...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2019/45483
The study was undertaken in Sustainable Development Initiatives Centre greenhouse at United States international university -Africa. The greenhouse experiment was laid out in potted containers in a randomised complete Block design (RCBD), with 3 replications. A total of four trea...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2019/46347