This paper sheds light on one key aspect of the liberalisation of export crop marketing in developing countries which has received a lot of research attention, namely pricing. The government of Ghana has been criticised by many researchers for its stance against price liberalisat...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/20714
The aim of this study was to assess the training needs of rural women in livestock production in Oyo State, Nigeria. A multistage random sampling technique was used to collect data from 180 women from two (Ibadan/Ibarapa and Ogbomoso) zones of Oyo State Agricultural Development...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/18104
The function of extension is to transfer and nurture pool of knowledge within the rural industry. Thus extension embraces all those who contribute knowledge or transfer it to farmers. This paper sought to explore the prospects of involving grassroots organizations in agricultural...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/20743
This paper will investigate the determinants of Vietnam’s trade deficit from an inter-temporal approach, in which the dynamic of the trade balance is the outcome of forward-looking consumption and investment decisions. The result shows that relative income, NFA, financial depth,...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/20429
Ethiopia is the second most populated country having more than 90 million people in Africa. Ethiopian economy largely depends on agriculture. Agriculture accounts for 90% of exports and 85% of employment while 90% of the people depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Low agri...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/19039
Overuse of inputs in rice production results in not only lower profit but also environmental pollution. This study aimed to estimate the cost efficiency and to identify the determinants of efficiency gaps. Stochastic Translog variable cost was applied to the data of 199 rice farm...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2016/19745
The paper looks at the water crisis in South Africa. The crisis of water to a developing country and to its people, to agriculture, to other important variables important and necessary to economic growth and development cannot be under estimated. South Africa is on the precipice...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/16897
A study was conducted to make an overall assessment of aquifer, groundwater resources, and its optimum utilization as well as the potentiality of groundwater abstraction in Mymensingh sadar upazilla. The subsurface lithology was investigated from the collected data of twelve bore...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/20636
This study focused on poverty and stochastic dominance comparisons using educational factors in crude oil polluted and non-polluted crop farmer households in Rivers State, Nigeria. Data were collected using multistage sampling technique, via 296 questionnaires from crop farmers i...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/19584
Numerous methods have been developed for estimating the production levels of forestry operations. Although these methods are classified in different ways in literature, they are fundamentally divided into two methods i.e. the quantitative and the qualitative method. In estimation...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/20028
Prompted by the persistent increase in rice imports (and the implications thereof) amidst implementation of various import reduction policies and strategies in Ghana, this study sourced assessment of the plausible determinants of volume and value of rice imports in Ghana. Use was...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/18834
The aim of this study was to estimate supply and demand functions for dairy cows milk production and to suggest recommendations to overcome problems related to the supply and demand of milk. A sample of 90 respondents was selected from Ad Dulay area. Multiple regression technique...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/19662
A survey was conducted to investigate the availability and utilization of crop by-products as livestock feeds for small ruminants in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria. One hundred and fifty copies of structured questionnaire were administered to crop (40.00%),...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/16203
This study investigates the implications of foreign land deals in Africa especially with regard to agricultural trade. It is motivated essentially by large scale foreign land deals in Africa, Latin America, Central Asia and Southeast Asia. The empirical model adopted is based on...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/13231
The study assessed the impacts of climate variability on wetland and fishing households in the Niger Delta region, Nigeria. Three hundred and twenty four respondents were selected using multi-stage sampling technique. Primary data were collected using questionnaire, in-depth inte...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/19360