Taking smallholder settlements constituting a relatively compact set of two newly settled villages adjacent Northeastern Slopes of Aberdare, Central Kenya as the main research field, the study: investigates the migration patterns, kinship relations and emerging associational life...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/20368
Random sets are common spatial statistical concepts that allow quantifying uncertainty in spatial objects. For objects extracted from remote sensing images, quantification of the uncertainty is important, as many objects are relatively small with respect to the pixel size and are...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/20462
Front line demonstrations (FLD) of integrated technology package of muga culture were conducted at 10 adopted farmers’ fields each in Golaghat and Dibrugarh districts in Assam State (India) during 2014-15. To demonstrate the production and economic benefit of adopting improved te...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/20103
Aims: The purpose of the study was to assess the attitudes of mango growers towards the pesticide risk reduction. Study Design: Eighty four (84) respondents were selected as sample from a recent list of 335 mango growers using multi-stage random sampling method. The population si...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/21567
Bac Giang province, Vietnam has potential for growing lychee. However, the price of lychee is low and unstable. Consumers are seeking higher quality lychee by accessing international standards and control systems. In order to improve the quality of lychee, Good Agricultural Pract...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/19948
A baseline survey was conducted in the Upper East Region of Ghana to assess current postharvest practices and factors influencing long and bulk storage of maize. The research tools employed were field survey, farm visits and key informant interviews. Twenty farmers were randomly...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/14959
Cocoa remains an important cash crop in Ghana and plays a major role in the country’s socio-economic development. The crop is the mainstay of many smallholder households and this has led to several efforts to enhance its production. The introduction of partial liberalisation has...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/21540
The place of cooperatives in the lives of rural households in Nigeria as in the case in many developing countries of the world cannot be overemphasized. This is because a sizeable number of households from this economy rely on agriculture and other small and medium scale enterpri...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/17332
This paper sheds light on one key aspect of the liberalisation of export crop marketing in developing countries which has received a lot of research attention, namely pricing. The government of Ghana has been criticised by many researchers for its stance against price liberalisat...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/20714
The aim of this study was to assess the training needs of rural women in livestock production in Oyo State, Nigeria. A multistage random sampling technique was used to collect data from 180 women from two (Ibadan/Ibarapa and Ogbomoso) zones of Oyo State Agricultural Development...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/18104