Fisheries extension is an education and communication process of delivering knowledge and technical support to the fish farmers, fishermen, and other stakeholders connected with fishing and fish farming system. This study was preceded with the aim of evaluating the effect of publ...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/28172
The objective of this study is to examine the training needs of agricultural extension workers in various provinces of Iraq. Validate them and develop a method of identification of training needs for agricultural extension agents. The data collected were analyzed by determination...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/28892
The study aims to assess the political economy of rural-urban interfaces in the pace of rapid urbanization of Addis Ababa City, the capital of Ethiopia. It seeks to understand the rural-urban interfaces employing the political economy lens of dependency theory. Primary data were...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/28328
The study ascertained practices of processors in processing and conservation of oil bean (Pentaclethra macrophylla) in Enugu State, Nigeria. Seventy two respondents purposively selected from three agricultural zones, three blocks and nine circles constituted the sample for the st...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/23771
Aims: The study was conducted in the combined state of Andhra Pradesh to investigate the socio-economic characteristics of rice farmers. Study Design: Multistage stratified random sampling technique was adopted for the study. Place and Duration of Study: The study was conducted i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/28696
This study analysed the economic efficiency of irrigated vegetable producers in Borno State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to select the respondents. Structured survey questionnaires were used and administered to 300 respondents to obtain primary data. Both desc...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/28494
This paper reviewed the capacity and potentials of youth and farm children to sustaining agricultural development. Their knowledge, skills, attitude and behaviour when nurtured and utilized are invaluable assets in the implementation of sustainable agricultural programmes. Findin...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/28377
The study investigates the impact of population growth on agricultural change, particularly on agricultural intensification, farm productivity and household welfare. We use a unique panel dataset that spans a 26 year-period, constructed from two waves of household surveys conduct...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/27693
Globalization has led to increase in the trade between countries but it has resulted in several other new issues, one such issue is dumping of goods. This paper analyses the impact of anti-dumping duty imposed by India on the imports of raw silk from China during 2003 to 2013. Th...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/24403
One of the important characteristics of the developing societies is the rural and subsistence agrarian economy. Agriculture, carried out by small land holders, face problems of technological and non-technological nature. Increase in marginal and small land holdings on one hand, a...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/28196
Adoption of snail production technologies by farmers in Onicha L.G.A of Ebonyi State, Nigeria, was studied. Percentage response and frequency distribution were used to address objective I, part of 2 and 3, while part of objective 2 was addressed using logit model analysis. Multi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/17878
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of use of IPM practices by the farmers and to examine relationships between farmer’s selected characteristics and their use of IPM practices. Those characteristics were age, education, farm size, annual family income, training...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/26249
Sugarcane production especially among the small scale growers in the rural areas of Swaziland has continued to be an area of great concern not only to the sugar industry but also to the country’s economy as a whole mainly due to its continued downward trend in terms of productivi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/27094
This article addresses the problem of farmers' access to agricultural information through Information and Communication Technologies (radio, telephone, agricultural magazines). The purpose of this research work is to assess sorghum farmers' access to ICTs, and ICTs’ contribution...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/17195
Aims: The relevance of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) in promoting community participation, enhancing sustainable development in rural communities, and its capacity to succeed where other approaches fail is well recognized in the rural development literature. Some PRA tools...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/28327