Co-orientation is a measurement process which contributes to a consensus of views among communicators. Co-orientation analysis yields three measures of consensus: accuracy, congruency and agreement. Accuracy refers to the similarity between one person’s estimate of another’s perc...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/9264
Aims: The unemployment rate in Nigeria has risen in recent years. Activities related to the oil palm industry could employ millions of people. This study evaluated the employment and socioeconomic influence of semi-mechanized oil palm processing in Elebele, Bayelsa State, Nigeria...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/9197
The consideration in the present study is mainly conceptual. The objective is to show how Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) can be used to reveal the true input-output relations in rice production. In the estimation of a production function, it is assumed that all firms use the exi...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/7742
This study analyzed the economics of fish production in Amansie-West District of Ghana, West Africa. Primarydata were collected from 45 fish farmers in the district, in April, 2009. We carried out a descriptive analysis of the inputs used and output obtained byfish farmers in the...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/8553
Ghana’s agriculture is characterized by low productivity, low farm incomes and low levels of technological adoption and use of inefficient production techniques. This poor state of Ghana’s agriculture is related to farmers’ attitudes towards risk in the adoption of new production...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/5401
Social enterprises are a pivotal tool for improving the living conditions in the Irish countryside and also to reduce the sense of remoteness in rural space by creating many job opportunities specifically towards disadvantaged people and unemployed workforce. The latter aspect is...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/8265
The study estimated the efficiency of resource use by women in dry season waterleaf production. The study was conducted in Etinan Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State during the short dry season between November 2011 and February 2012. Through the multistage sampling techniqu...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/7323
Aims: This research was objected to analyze farmers’ perception on feeding technology and crop by-product utilization at the farms of Bulukumba regency, Souh Sulawesi Indonesia. Place and Duration of Study: The number of respondents involved was as many as 96 farmers in the two s...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/7304
This study assessed the role played by low input nutrition gardens in improving the livelihoods of HIV/AIDS infected and affected people in the urban areas of Zimbabwe. Structured interviews were conducted mainly with infected and affected households in the city of Harare’s high...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/6122
This study analyzed technical efficiency of sweet potato farmers in Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. A sample of 80 sweet potato farmers was selected using the multistage sampling technique. Structured questionnaire was used for data collection This implies tha...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/6945
The study identified the effectiveness of the Demonstration alone, the Meeting alone and the Pamphlet alone and All methods together on the poultry farmers’ knowledge and skills levels. The Experimental research design was used in the current study. The study was carried out in D...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/7010
The study investigated food security determinants among urban food crop farming households in Cross River State, Nigeria. A two-stage sampling technique was utilized to obtain a sample size of 217 urban food crop farming households. The study was conducted in three urban areas in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/6560
Aims: This study seeks to describe the socio-economic characteristic of the respondents in the study area, describe the land tenure systems operational in the study area, determine the trend in farm size change in the study area over a period of five years, determine the trend in...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/7707
This study on default risk and determinants of farmers’ access to micro-credit from cooperative societies was carried out in Abia state, Nigeria. Longitudinal data on micro-credit seeking and repayments for ninety (90) rural farm households in three agricultural zones of the stat...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/6949
Coffee production is a major source of income for farmers in the DakLak province in Vietnam. Although Vietnam is one of the largest coffee producers in the world, research to improve the coffee industry is lacking, in particular, evaluating production efficiency in coffee farming...
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Research Article10.9734/AJAEES/2014/6599