Viable sweet potato production is hard to achieve with indiscriminate use of farm inputs, resulting to wastage and environmental damages, as consequences are common problems of arable crop farming in Abia State. Issues arising from farm input use and their corresponding implications for environment called for a study on suitable farming practices and farm-specific technical efficiency for optim...

Smallholder farmers have been on the receiving end of impacts climate change due to direct dependence their livelihood portfolios climate-related systems. In northern Ghana, smallholder agriculture is predominantly rainfed, making crop farming very vulnerable changes and variability in rainfall other extreme climatic events. Therefore, this paper examined how north-western Ghana adapting over y...

1. Agriculture is the predominant user (75-80%) of the available freshwater resource in many parts of the world. At present most of the water used to grow crops is derived from rainfed soil moisture, with non-irrigated agriculture accounting for some 60% of production in developing countries. Although irrigation provides only 10% of agricultural water use and covers just around 20% of the cropl...

The rice fields in Bonto Rannu Village, Kajang District, Bulukumba Regency are dominated by rainfed fields. This species has limitations the dry season because irrigation/agricultural irrigation completely depends on rainwater. Therefore, it is necessary to identify alternative sources sustain farmers' farming activities Village. study aims analyze number of groundwater wells testing form a pum...

Japan's rice sector is supported by high prices paid by consumers that allow many farm households to maintain small rice farms. Japan's government controls trade within a tariff-rate quota and imposes a prohibitively high tariff on imports outside the quota. Within Japan, diversion programs pay farmers to substitute other crops for rice since, without government-mandated diversion, supply would...

Successes • Many people showed up at the public meeting. • The citizen group wants to continue beyond the MERIT project. • Increased level of knowledge on both sides of the table. • A deeper understanding of pesticide sources and precautionary actions. • Implementation of cooperative farming contracts is not only a question of money. • There are new opportunities to establish waterworks coopera...

Several technologies have been provided to farmers increase production under the rainfed systems of Ethiopia. However, much attention has focused on drought emergency relief and associated interventions. Conservation agriculture (CA), among others, recently encouraged as part sustainable intensification technology in Ethiopian smallholder farming systems. CA research Ethiopia traditionally stay...