Groundwater accessibility is one of the most critical factors in modern agriculture. In Haryana, groundwater overdraft and increasing land fragmentation are raising the cost of groundwater withdrawal for irrigation and creating inequalities in access for farmer communities. There...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4935
Sweet potato yield is influenced by complex relationships among vegetative growth, storage-root characteristics and genotype. This study evaluated variation in vegetative, storage-root and yield traits among the 14 sweet potato [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] genotypes grown under mi...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4934
Poultry farming contributes to household income, food security and employment in Liberia, yet commercial producers face interrelated constraints that can limit productivity and profitability. This study assessed challenges affecting poultry farm management among commercial chicke...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4933
Introduction: Hired labour plays an important role in small cardamom cultivation because plantation operations are labour-intensive and require timely completion of field activities. Changes in labour availability, production costs, and farm household conditions can influence the...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4932
This study evaluates differences in topsoil physicochemical properties among four techno-ecological settings in the North Karanpura Coalfield, Jharkhand, India: an active opencast mining site (Amrapali), a coal-logistics zone on reclaimed land (Piparwar village), a mining-periphe...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4931
Abduljabbar Muhammad Ahmad, Shyam Datta Waghmare, Surender Singh Siwach, Aminu Said Rufai, Abdulrauf Mohd Hamisu, Abdullahi Shehu & Sadiq Musa Bello·Asian Research Journal of Agriculture·2026
Agricultural mechanisation research relevant to northern Nigeria spans farm-power selection, service markets, irrigation, harvesting, labour allocation and emerging digital technologies. Its policy interpretation is complicated by differences between research visibility, geograph...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4929
Agricultural training can become a pathway to economic participation when persons with visual impairment are provided with accessible opportunities to learn through practice rather than theory alone. This study examined the effect of an intensive farming system and hands-on agric...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4930
Aims: To assess and compare farmers’ preferences for adaptation strategies to water scarcity in Chittur (Palakkad district, Kerala) and Pollachi North (Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu), two groundwater-dependent farming regions on either side of the Palakkad Gap. Study Design: Cr...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4928
Background: Farm ponds are among the most widely promoted on-farm water-harvesting structures for emergency or supplementary irrigation and for stabilising crop production in rainfed and semi-arid tracts. Over time, however, many of these structures lose their functional efficien...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4927
Aims: This study aimed to analyze the profitability and resource-use efficiency of banana (Musa paradisiaca) farming in Nawalparasi West District, Nepal. It also assessed the effects of farm size on profitability, marketing conditions, and major production and marketing constrain...
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Research Article10.9734/arja/2026/v19i4925