Profitability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

Profitability of fertilizer: Experimental evidence from female rice farmers in Mali

Intensified use of agricultural inputs, particularly fertilizer, is a possible route to improved agricultural productivity. Field trials of these technologies show substantial increases in yields, but typically are done on highly monitored experimental plots rather than by farmers themselves. Returns to a certain technology might be quite different on real-world farms than on experimental farms...

Probability of Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Female Rice Farmers in Mali

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Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer : Theory and Experimental Evidence from Kenya Esther

Outsourcing Agricultural Production: Evidence from Rice Farmers in Zhejiang Province

China has recorded positive growth rates of grain production for the past eleven consecutive years. This is a remarkable accomplishment given that China's rapid industrialization and urbanization has led to a vast reduction of arable land and agricultural labor to non-agricultural sectors. While there are many factors contributing to this happy outcome, one potential contributing factor that ha...

Evaluation of water pollution from rice cultivation using Nitrogen fertilizer in North of Iran

The increase of nitrite and nitrate concentrations in surface and groundwater is a greatconcern in our lives nowadays. Nitrate and nitrite in drinking water normally originate fromagricultural operation and chemical fertilizers. Therefore, the present study aims toinvestigate the effect of nitrogen fertilizers used in rice cultivation and levels of nitrate andnitrite in farm wastewater and wate...