This study investigated the perceived training needs of smallholder rice farmers on urea deep placement (UDP) technology in Benue State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 162 rice farmers by using a well-structured questionnaire administered to the respondents. Descriptive statis...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35666
Economic development is the effect for which entrepreneurship is caused. Economic development essentially means a process of change in income of the people in society, which directly leads to upward change in real per capita income of a country. Entrepreneurship has an important...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/34536
The Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA), defined as a semi-autonomous decentralized participatory and market-driven extension model represents a shift away from transferring technologies for major crops to diversifying output. As the ATMA programme is under operation...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35795
This study aimed at evaluating the effect of goat husbandry and distribution as development projects in income generation and social development in southern Ghore in Jordan. South Ghore is one of the poverty pockets with distinctive characteristics. This triggers searching for su...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/33796
Investigations were conducted during 2015-2016, in major jasmine growing districts of Tamil Nadu, for assessing the distribution, infestation level and the relative importance of leaf webworm of jasmine, Nausinoe geometralis. The incidence was more in Madurai (28.75%) followed by...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35413
The impact of climate change on agricultural production is a serious source of worry to farmers in rural communities in Nigeria. This is because their economy mainly depend on agriculture which is seriously affected by global climate change. The objectives of this study were to i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/30439
Aims: To explore the agricultural credit potential, performance and relationship with agricultural growth in India’s. Study Design: The study is based on secondary data of agricultural GDP and agricultural credit (Direct Institutional Credit). At first, the performance of agricu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32304
Smallholder integrated farming system (IFS) is debated as an alternative to conventional external input driven commercial farming in developing nations. The sustainability of IFS is the key to secure sustainable livelihoods of millions of small and marginal farmers and they need...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35516
Aim: To verify the relationship between social-support and peer-relationship among adolescents in Haryana. Study Design: A cross – sectional study was conducted on 460 adolescents of 11th and 12th standard in Haryana. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted in Haryan...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/34479
It was an attempt to examine the profitability and factors affecting milk supply of dairy farms in selected areas in Chittagong District. Primary data were collected from both milk producers and traders during the months of August to September 2015. Simple descriptive method and...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/34934
The present study aims to assess the consumer awareness about eight consumer rights in Deesa city and to correlate their awareness with the age, education and media exposure. Descriptive research design was used for the study. Two hundred women were selected randomly from differe...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32322
Nature has endowed the state of Jammu and Kashmir (India) with wide range of agro- climatic conditions which permits the production of varieties of temperate fruits. The district Shopian was purposively selected, because of potentiality for the development of horticulture, mainly...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/33656
Land fragmentation is a common agricultural phenomenon in many countries where a single large farm is subdivided into a large number of separate small land plots. This paper is based on a study that was carried out to evaluate the impact of land fragmentation on food security in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/34321
Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in information dissemination in agriculture sector is getting popular day by day especially in technology transfer to the farmers. While various forms of ICT devices and centers abound in Bangladesh today. The recent innovat...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/34998
This article examines the agricultural advisory services support package of the program for the improvement of the Competitiveness of Family Agro-pastoral Farms (ACEFA) and its impacts on Family Agro-pastoral Farms (EFA) and Producer Groups (PG) in the Dja-et-Lobo Division in the...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/35039