Agricultural cooperatives play an important role in supporting small agricultural producers and marginalized groups such as young people and women. They empower their members economically and socially and create sustainable rural employment through business models that are resili...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/33435
Aims: The farmers of Bangladesh is producing extra food for huge number of people by injudicious use of agro-chemicals thereby damaging the ecosystem and hampering the sustainability. For checking this ill practice, it requires shifting of good practice to the farmers by the exte...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/33338
Computing the growth of any entity over a time period is important for understanding the past behaviour and for future planning. ‘Compound growth rate’ is one of the frequently used methods for calculating the growth rate models. Among the statistical study was carried out on dif...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32452
Agricultural Technology Management Agency (ATMA) extension functionaries are authorized personnel, who help the farmers by transferring technology from research station to them. But during technology dissemination, they have to face a lot of difficulties. Therefore, the present s...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32995
The study undertaken is an attempt to investigate and analyse the level of technology adoption across different size groups of broiler farms in Sonitpur district of Assam during 2011-12. The study was conducted with a sample of 100 numbers of broiler farms using specially designe...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32865
Coffee is grown in many countries in the world including Africa and America. Kenyan coffee has been known to be among the country’s agricultural exports and contributes greatly to the growth of Kenyan economy. Coffee production yields has been declining from a peak of 128,700 met...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32808
Few published papers have taken the undesirable input effects in productivity change analysis particularly in swine production of developing countries in which it is a major economic activity and a potential pathway for poverty reduction. Untreated and improperly disposed swine w...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/33022
The most prominent step in improving the skills of extension functionaries is to analyse their training needs. The ATMA (Agricultural Technology Management Agency) Extension Functionaries are always engaged in effective transfer of improved agricultural technologies to service ag...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32993
An attempt has been made in this paper to investigate the sustainable livelihood system of the tribes living in Bilaspur district of Chhattisgarh during the year 2014-2015. The ex-post facto research design was employed for this investigation. The sample size of 135 tribes was se...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/31812
Recent advances in animal husbandry technologies have demonstrated potential for maximization of milk productivity and all these requires adoption of improved technologies. The present study was conducted to assess the extent of adoption of improved animal husbandry practices by...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32985
The research work mainly concentrated on economic performance of zero tillage in maize under agency tracts of Andhra Pradesh during five continuous years from 2011 to 2016 at different farmers’ field locations of Andhra Pradesh. The improved research variety DHM-117 with improve...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32455
The present study entitled “Integrated Farming Systems and Socio-economic characteristics of Punjab Agricultural university Awardee Farmers” was undertaken to study the socioeconomic characteristics and different types of farming systems used by them. A list of awardee farmers wa...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/30054
One major problem facing maize production can be attributed to the fertility status of most Nigerian soils which is considerably low. The study was conducted to examine arable crop farmers’ perception of the use of organic fertilizer in maize production in Ido Local Government Ar...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/29934
Off season vegetable cultivation plays a unique role in the hill farming system. Being low volume and high value crops, they are rated to be potential cash earners. With increase in population, farm holdings are getting smaller and fragmented. Further, the agricultural practices...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32438
Climate variability is one of the limiting factors to increasing per capita food production for most smallholder farmers in Africa. The adoption and diffusion of climate smart agriculture technologies, as a way to tackle this barrier, has become an important issue in the developm...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2017/32489