A lot of investment has been made in the agricultural sector of Ghana to increase agricultural production through the introduction of new technologies. However, it has been observed that despite efforts being made by the government through the introduction of new varieties of mai...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11646
Aims: To understand the role of gender on Bambara groundnut cultivation with respect to levels of farmers’ involvement in utilization and conservation in Western Kenya. Study Design: A questionnaire was administered to 120 farmers in two districts. The districts neighbor each oth...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/10285
Gender mainstreaming within policies and programs has remained a big priority among government and non-governmental organizations. In all societies, in all parts of the world, gender equality is not yet realized. Men and women have different roles, responsibilities and decision-m...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/9716
There has been an increased advocacy on food legume cultivation as an economical and sustainable means of soil fertilization due to the inherent problems of inorganic fertilizers such as unavailability, high cost, environmental hazards and soil degradation. This study was therefo...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/6506
The study sought to determine the effects of factory labour costs on annual returns to tea growers in Kenya. A case study design was adopted and data was collected through questionnaires. The research was conducted between September 2013 and March 2014. Descriptive and inferentia...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11538
Aim: This study examined food crop farmers’ supply responsiveness to selected price and non-price variables. Study Design: Cross-sectional design Place and Duration of Study: The study was carried out in Ejura Sekyeredumasi District in the Ashanti Region of Ghana and data was col...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11238
The paper examines changes and the extent of poverty in rural Nigeria from 1996 to 2004. It investigates the contributions of growth and redistribution factors to changes in poverty within these eight years. The analysis is based on household National Consumer Survey (NCS) of 199...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11239
Plantain orchards are usually abandoned after two or three production cycles due to yield decline as accentuated by the non-adoption of management practices. This study was conducted to identify the causes of loss in perennial productivity that necessitate orchard abandonment. In...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/10886
This study empirically assesses the livelihood and crop diversification of rural farm households in Remo Division of Ogun State Nigeria. The study drew a sample of 120 rural farm households through a multi-stage sampling technique and the primary data obtained were analyzed using...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/8608
The study explored socio economic conditions of wheat farmers to evaluate the impacts of the introduction of the full package(FP) which contains zero tillage, new varieties of wheat seed, adding fertilizer, using the combine, and using herbicides. Partial budget was used to work...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/9880
International trade is an important contributor to Malaysia's economic growth and development. Malaysia's trade policy is to pursue efforts towards creating a more liberalizing and fair global trading environment. While Malaysia continues to accord high priority to the rule-based...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/10536
Abstracts The study was carried out to determine the state of adoption of yam minisett technique by farmers in Imo State. Multi-stage random sampling technique was employed to select 90 respondents (yam farmers) from the area. Structured questionnaire was used to obtain usefu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/6916
With its increasing population and continuing rapid infrastructural development in order to deal with international events such as Expo 2020, The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has created a pull-in environment for a large international labor force eager to work and settle down in th...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11300
Aims: This study analyses the production and commercialisation potential of indigenous leafy vegetables (ILV) in the Capricorn district in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Specific objectives were to identify the socio-economic characteristics of ILVs producers in rural area...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/7895
Following recent declines in volume and value of cotton lint exports from Mali, we made use of the Johansen Full Information Maximum Likelihood test to identify the magnitude and effects of key drivers of cotton lint exports from the country. In this regard, we estimated two prim...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/11440