The study examined temporal and spatial price integration of cowpea markets in Kiyawa Local Government Area of Jigawa State. Four periodic cowpea markets (Duhuwa, Kazuba, Kiyawa and Shuwarin) were purposively selected. Recurring survey was used to collect cowpea retail prices fro...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/29160
India is mostly an agricultural country in which the power of rural unskilled labour is very high and the most people of the rural poor depend mostly on the wages they earn through unskilled, informal, and manual labour. The main effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employ...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/36926
Agriculture is the mainstay of our economy as about 70% of the population directly or indirectly is associated with agriculture and allied activities. However, agriculture in Kashmir is continuously facing tremendous constraints in the form of poor institutional arrangements, ine...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/36257
Maize is the most important cereal and it is mostly used as grain, feed, fodder, starch and industrial products. In the present study, an attempt was made to calculate the cost of cultivation, find out resource use efficiency, price spread and market efficiency of maize in differ...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/36324
A landslide is a downslope movement of rock or soil, or both, occurring on the surface of rupture. Landslides are just a hazard in an uninhabited place. But, they turn into disasters when they occur in areas of human habitation. Due to increase in population and rapid urbanizati...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37405
The common worldwide practice for agricultural land valuation is based on average market prices of the similar plots, close to the land being evaluated. However, the land valuation based on average market prices requires the functioning of a well-developed market for land sale/pu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37275
The study assessed the perceived constraints and improvement strategies of development interventions on rural women in Imo State of Nigeria. The study identified socio-economic characteristics of rural women; their perceived extent of interventions by development agencies; also e...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37159
Climate change may influence the survival and distribution of field crop weeds. Few investigations are available about the negative effect of noxious weeds on crop quality. Several studies were conducted to evaluate weed distribution of alfalfa fields. For eight years case studie...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/36789
The study determines the factors influencing adoption of cocoa resuscitation programme in South West, Nigeria. Data for the study were collected from 240 cocoa farmers through the use of interview schedule and focus group discussion. Multistage sampling technique was used in sele...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/36891
The study aimed to assess the contribution of ginger farming to smallholder farmers’ income in Same District Tanzania. A cross sectional research design was adopted; sample sizes of 244 respondents were obtained through purposive and non-purposive sampling techniques. The study h...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/34873
This study examined Generation Y’s psychological addiction to social media with specific regard to Research Gate, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter. The addiction was deduced using Griffiths’ five components that govern behavioral addiction: tolerance, salience, withdrawal,...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/37024
This paper has examined changes in cropping pattern in the state of Andhra Pradesh at the aggregate and regional levels for the period 1969-71 to 2004-05. A zero-order correlation coefficients for the change in the area under different crops were estimated. The results indicate t...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/36892
Contract farming requires a long term commitment between both the agri-business firms and contracted growers. It seems to offer solutions to many problems agriculture in India face, more so the agriculture in Odisha. Contract farming is supposed to help agriculture through streng...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/31412
This study investigated the risk aversion behaviour of dry land farmers in Manaparai taluk of Tiruchirappalli district in Tamil Nadu State, using multiple linear production function. Structured questionnaires were used to collect data from 120 respondents randomly selected from d...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32737
This study examines the scope of this mechanism by estimating the supply response for major principal crops in the Andhra Pradesh state from 1970 to 2005 using Nerlovian adjustment adaptive expectation model. The acreage response functions are estimated and supply response elasti...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/36986