Many government officials and policy-makers in developing countries support the adoption of non-traditional export crops among peasant farmers as a way of promoting economic development in the rural sector and providing new production alternatives for the rural poor. Nonetheless, these policy initiatives many times fail because the small producers are not able to adapt to the new technologies, ...

In traditional society, women were supposed to do housework, take care of children, and give the family emotional stability. However, with the social and economic changes that affect our urban and rural society, the traditional values also change. More women are engaged in full-time jobs. No longer are they only women and mothers; they are also business women, politicians, and contributors to s...

traditional knowledge is commercialized without due respect for the cultural and economic interests of the communities in which it originates. at the same time, and often, no share of the returns from its exploitation is conceded to the communities, which have developed and maintained it. today, traditional knowledge is valuable economic and cultural assets within the global information society...

The alternative soil tillage technology plays an important role in the development of a sustainable agriculture. The use of traditional technology gives the farmers a positive expected income. With the use of an alternative soil tillage technology, the expected income considerably rises together with the income risk. Combinations of income and risk revealed that the use of traditional technolog...

One of the most common problems encountered in agriculture is that of predicting a response variable from covariates of interest. The aim of this paper is to use a Bayesian neural network approach to predict dairy daughter milk production from dairy dam, sire, herd and environmental factors. The results of the Bayesian neural network are compared with the results obtained when the regression re...