The role of the small farm in American agriculture has been the focus of much public discussion since Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland elevated farm structure to the national political agenda during the Carter Administration. Eight hypotheses based on common assertions concerning the alleged advantages of the small farm were tested in the light of available empirical evidence. No basis was...

Enhancing self-sufficiency and national food security have been strategic policy goals of the Indonesian government. From 2015 to 2019, a program called Upsus Pajale had implemented provide input subsidies extension assistants farmers for three commodities: rice, maize, soybeans, accelerate productivity increase production. The study was done by interviewing 374 beneficiary farmers. objectives ...

Reinforcing the small water cycle is considered to be a holistic approach both resource and landscape management. In an agricultural landscape, this can accomplished by incorporating conservation practices; their incorporation reduce surface runoff, increase infiltration, holding capacity of soil. Some typical practices include: tillage, contour farming, residue incorporation, reducing field si...

Hybrid utilization of renewable energy is one of effective method which can solve the problem that unstable of renewable energy so as not to substitute traditional fossil energy. As the typical renewable energy, solar energy and wind energy are in the van of renewable energy utilization. With the large scale utilization of solar and wind energy in the world, constructing large scale solar power...

This study was conducted in Al-Sharkia and El-Fayoum provinces, Egypt, aimed to determine factors affecting small-scale broiler chicken farm profitability challenges faced by farmers Egyptian rural. A stratified random sampling technique applied collect data from 200 individual randomly selected two 100 each province. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with questionnaires di...

Worldwide there is a rush toward wind power development and its associated infrastructure. In Fennoscandia, large-scale wind farms comprising several hundred windmills are currently built in important grazing ranges used for Sámi reindeer husbandry. In this study, reindeer habitat use was assessed using reindeer fecal pellet group counts in relation to two relatively small wind farms, with 8 an...