Available agricultural technology does not serve its purpose till it reaches and adopted by it ultimate users, the farmers. The present study was conducted in Thottiyam block of Tiruchirappalli district to assess the adoption of precision technologies in bitter gourd cultivation....
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/41018
The relationships between poverty and the environment are highly contested, debated and researched. Environmental degradation and poverty, however, may have mutual causality. This paper, therefore, tried to examine whether there is an association between poverty and environmental...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/39310
The present study was conducted during 2016-17 to assess the knowledge of agriculture extension functionaries regarding Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools. Eighty Agriculture officers and Assistant Agriculture officers were interviewed from 43 Raitha Samparka Ke...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/40963
In recent times over 50% of graduates from universities and agricultural colleges in Ghana, do not gain employment upon completion of their education. This research finds out how the agricultural colleges could be repositioned such that their graduates will be self-employed upon...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/39501
This study was undertaken to assess a feedback regarding the intervention being provided by Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) in District Budgam. The study was conducted in 60 Anganwadi Centers (AWCs) and the beneficiaries included three registered groups viz., Pregnan...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/39887
Red gram is commonly known as Tur or Pigeon pea in India and is the second important pulse in the country after Bengal gram. The ability of red gram to produce high economic yields under soil moisture deficit makes it an important crop in rainfed and dryland agriculture. The pres...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/39908
The study focused on the documentation and rationalization of Indigenous Technical Knowledge (ITK) practices pertinent to tea in Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu. An attempt was made to study the awareness and adoption level of the rationalized ITKs among tea growing hilly tribes....
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/41313
Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) is a technique which gives more emphasis on local knowledge end enable locals to do their own appraisal, analysis and planning on the participatory basis. In this study, a transect survey was conducted at Amba village of Ajmer, India to underst...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/40325
The objective of this study was to Diversified Utilization of potato, and marketing constraint faced by farm women in potato production kannauj division. In India, potato is cultivated in almost all states under diverse agro-climatic conditions. About 85 percent of potatoes are c...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/40293
While urban dwelling is increasingly becoming common across the world, in Namibia, the population settlement pattern is skewed towards rural areas and so is the case for the Zambezi region. The main livelihood strategy is agriculture, which is subsistence in nature and practiced...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/28619
The study was conducted in College of Agriculture (COA), Gandhi Krishi Vigyana Kendra, Bengaluru and College of Agriculture (COA), Vishveswaraiah Canal (V C) Farm, Mandya, in order to analyse the perception of students and teachers on Rural Agricultural Work Experience Programme...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/40627
Information related to farm practices is a crucial input for critical decision making by farmers. Social Network Analysis, an innovative analytical tool which provides excellent scope to analyse complex networking system has been applied in the study to explore the invisible natu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/37793
The study assessed the costs and return of poultry egg enterprises in Lafia Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Nigeria. Sixty (60) poultry egg producers were randomly selected from the 10 wards in Lafia Local Government Area. Data were collected using structured questionn...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/37335
The present investigation was carried out during the year 2009, to find out the constraints faced by the farmers in the utilization of Kisan Credit Card this study was conducted in two purposively selected block of Raipur district of Chhattisgarh state with 120 Kisan Credit Card...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/40343
The study assessed the determinants of food security among rural farming households in the Kogi State of Nigeria. This study was conducted in Kogi state which is located in central Nigeria. The principal analytical strategy adopted for this study involves the construction of a Fo...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/40302