While considering pollution and economic losses caused by modern fishing systems/fleet to natural environment, traditional fishing techniques have its own relevance as a sustainable way of harvesting systems with least negative impact to the fishing environment. The study focuses...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/38148
The study assessed the involvement of farm households’ in bush buck (utazi) production in Agricultural zones of Anambra State, Nigeria. Using multistage sampling technique, a total of 100 household heads were purposively selected from the four Agricultural zones (Aguata, Awka, On...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/38123
Climate change is one of the greatest global challenges of our time. Impact of climate change can be felt in many areas including agriculture. Agriculture is primary occupation of a human being. Among all the human activities, agriculture being the mostly weather dependent is phy...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37591
Gujarat with 11 maritime districts owns the longest coastline (1640 Km) and has the widest shelf area. The coastline of about 1640 km consists of 173 landing centers. The shelf area covers about 1, 64,000 sq.km, of which 64,800 sq.km falls in the depth range 0-60 m, which can be...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37967
Aims: To assess the profitability gap between farmers and traders in sweetpotato production. Study Design: Purposive Sampling of Sweetpotato producers and traders. Place and Duration of Study: Four major sweetpotato growing regions (Volta, Upper East, Central and Eastern) in Ghan...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/38110
Rural income diversification by increasing income and reducing risk of vulnerability help the poor farmers to improve their standard of living. The study assesses the occupational patterns, sources of income diversification and factors that affect farmer’s decision towards income...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/36873
Aims: This study aimed at measuring and evaluating production efficiency of the tenants producing cotton-crop in Gezira Scheme, and investigating the main specific factors behind their technical inefficiency. Place and Duration of Study: Gezira Scheme, season 2011/12. Methodology...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/33878
This paper aims at investigating barrier to sugarcane production information access via ICT among the Swaziland sugar industry stakeholders as perceived by extension officers and smallholder sugarcane farmers. The study was a census involving all active smallholder sugarcane farm...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37095
The oranges (Citrus sinensis L.) are diversely available on the markets along the months and seasons of the year. The current investigation, implemented in 10 communes from the district of Abidjan, focused on parameters dealing with the supply and marketing of these citrus fruits...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/36659
This review paper analyses the role and many functions of agriculture within the paradigm of sustainable development and within the scenario of climate change, which is also characterised by an increasing number of natural hazards. The fast-increasing world population, that will...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37584
The study was carried out to identify the perceived training needs of dairy farmers regarding scientific buffalo husbandry practices and its relation with their socio-economic traits in five districts of Haryana state. A sample size of 250 dairy farmers was randomly selected for...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37728
The present study was carried out to know the knowledge gap of silkworm rearers of Jammu division with 240 respondents were selected by proportionate random sampling method from three districts, six blocks and 24 villages. The data was collected by using a pretested structured in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/34786
This study attempted to assess the factors affecting the success of Small Agro-Enterprises (SAEs) in Bhutan. Although SAEs contribute to economic development of the country, their success factors are not fully understood. The scarcity of empirical studies motivated authors to stu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37427
To access the trends and farmers perception on temperature and precipitation in Chepang community, a research was conducted in Chitwan district of Nepal in the year 2016. Two VDCs, Shaktikhor and Siddhi were selected purposively and sixty households from each village were selecte...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35945
Aims: To determine the level of asset ownership and control of women in rural Nigeria. Study Design: Quantitative. Place and Duration of Study: Data from the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2013 on 23,403 women were collected. The sample for the DHS 2013 was a strati...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35943