The present study was carried out to document the various kinds of indigenous traps and fishing gears used in 20 river systems covering three districts of North Malabar region of Kerala. The use of indigenous traps such as box traps namely “Chemballi Koodu”, and other fishing gea...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/33240
This paper is a literature review on the subject of entrepreneurship. Specifically, the review focusses on the components of the entrepreneurial behavior of farmers. The desk study is based on over 50 publications on entrepreneurship or related subject matter, the majority of whi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/39224
The food processing world is highly fragmented as it widely comprises of the sub segment like fruit and vegetables preservation, pickling of seasonal vegetables, milk and milk products, baking. The present study was an attempt to find out the extent of adoption of food processing...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/36046
Farm household today is constrained by shrinking net income, increased the cost of cultivation and uncertainty in prices. Hence this forced the farmers to switch over to Horticulture, Agroforestry and Sericulture. Consequently, in this backdrop, cultivation of medicinal plants is...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/37943
Aims: This study assessed farmers’ use of soil and water conservation practices and implications for agricultural extension agents in Anambra State, Nigeria. Methodology: Purposive sampling technique was used in selecting eighty respondents from four town communities in Anambra s...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/39151
The need for professional training of agricultural sectors is increasing day by day. Advanced methodologies of farming needed to adopt all the native workers of the dedicated zones which are still in trial. Perhaps some of the training institutes take some initiatives to make a h...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/36915
Indigenous technical knowledge has been traditionally owned wisdom from time to time, as the days gone it is likely to be forgotten by the society, due to an invasion of modern technologies. Due to ecological imbalance and onslaught of land, water and other natural resources, the...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/37330
Aims: This study aimed at examining and comparing the impact of the governmental policies; pre-liberalization (1970 - 1992) and post-liberalization (1992 - 2012), on the growth of the main crops grown in the New Halfa Agricultural Scheme (NHAS) Sudan: sorghum, wheat, cotton and g...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/38062
The study assessed the factors influencing participation of cocoa farmers in the government spraying programme in Ghana using cross-sectional data obtained by interviewing respondents with the aid of a questionnaire. A probit model was employed to analyse the determinants of farm...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/38842
Tribes are indigenous with a distinctive culture, geographically isolated and are low in socio-economic indicators like literacy rate, per capita income, infant mortality rate etc. For centuries, the tribal groups have remained outside the realm of the general development process...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2018/38863