Zimbabwe, the once bread basket country of Southern Africa is experiencing recurring food shortages as a result of poor maize harvest. Researchers and politicians have blamed recurring droughts coupled with and lack of timely planting as the main cause of poor yields. This paper...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/13227
The study reviewed baseline conditions of the third National Fadama Development Project in Kogi State from beneficiaries’ perspective. The synthesis was based on interview with 100 randomly selected members of adama - users, focus group discussion and official document of the pro...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/11283
Traditionally, tea famers have been used chemicals to protect products. But an over usage of pesticides or preservation compounds has negatively affected on the environment and human health. When the living standard has been improved, consumers have changed into buying cleaner an...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/13095
The need to improve productivity and local production of cassava to meet internal demand, and the export drive in the Nigerian economy necessitated this study. Factors affecting productivity levels achieved by cassava women farmers of Benue agricultural development project (ADP)...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/12986
The study compared the use of organic and inorganic manure among vegetable (Telfairia occidentalis) farmers in Owerri Municipal of Imo State. Random sampling technique was adopted to select six organic manure users as well as six inorganic manure users from each of the five rando...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/13068
This paper aimed to identify and analyzed the main determinants of poverty in South Sudan prior it secession from Sudan in 2011. Primary data were collected using structured household questionnaire. A sample of 200 households was interviewed in Renk County. Multiple Regression an...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/12724
Aims: The aims of the study were to describe socio-economic characteristics of respondents, determine their roles in artisanal fishery, identify their marine food resource outputs, analyze contributions of artisanal fishery to food security and determine constraints of women arti...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/13186
Cotton is very important for the economy and for poverty alleviation in Benin. However, cotton lint production started having a decreasing trend since 2003, and this is due to the decline in cotton acreage. Thus, to help inform policy decisions on how cotton production could be b...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/12785
Using household-level survey data, this study investigates the relative competitiveness of banana production in the Mampong municipality of Ashanti region of Ghana. Empirical results from discounting and non-discounting technique of project evaluation show that banana production...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/11605
An 8-week experiment was conducted to assess the weight gain and the economic importance of broiler chickens fed with Water Leaf Meal Supplements (WLM). One hundred and fifty day-old Anak 2000 broiler chicks were randomly distributed to 5 treatments which contained 0, 3, 6, 9 and...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/12542
This study was carried out during April -September 2013 in the North West Region of Cameroon on the socio-economic analysis and adoption of improved maize varieties (IMVs).One hundred and forty farmers were administered semi-structured questionnaires and the data were analysed us...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/9975
This study investigated the effect of household endowment on the use of fertilizer by rice farmers in Kwande Local Government Area of Benue State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected from 100 randomly selected rice farmers through the use of structured questionnaires. Logit regr...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/12272
Actual assessment of the socio-economic status (SES) is best carried out through a well constructed SES scale in line with the dynamic nature of SES indicators in every community. Therefore, this study was carried out to construct a standardised SES scale for rural dwellers in no...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/8548
This study established a long run relationship in rainfall, yield and prices of soya bean, rice and maize for (1975-2009) period in Nigeria. Annual secondary time series data on selected parameters were collected in thirty six states including Abuja in six agro ecological zones a...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/11846
The study was conducted to investigate the impact of education and certified seed on wheat production in district Kohat, Pakistan. For the purpose, proportional allocation sampling technique was used and total of 100 respondents randomly selected to get necessary information. Sim...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2015/13256