In the less developed parts of southern Africa, where agriculture is crucial in daily survival, agricultural lime is often difficult to obtain. This is due to the scarcity of production sites, high transport costs and inadequate support for farmers from government extension services. In Zambia there are upwards of 700,000 small-scale farmers who struggle to farm on acid soils and as a result ha...

The agricultural sector in Japan is currently undergoing drastic changes. A comparison of statistical data for the years 1980 to 2016 shows that gross agricultural production decreased from 10.3 trillion yen to 8.8 trillion yen, agricultural land decreased from 5.46 million hectares (ha) to 4.47 million ha, the working population in the agricultural sector decreased from 6.97 million to 1.92 mi...

This study aims to analyze the determinants of vertical integration (ownership and contract-ing) among peasant farmers in Northern Algeria. The choice of asset control is between ownership and a simple contracting. Thus, the integration of vertical stages of agricultural produc-tion leads to higher gross margins, influences the choice of marketing and supply channels, and improves market partic...

Context & Rationale Despite a probable net reduction in the overall population since independence, there has been a small increase in the number of Armenia’s farming households. Many of these are relatively new and inexperienced farmers with very limited access to capital and farm inputs. Agriculture is the primary employer and accounts for about 28% of the GDP. Yet with few exceptions i.e. som...

Sustainability concept in agriculture is becoming widespread throughout industries in many fields even in crop production, livestock production and etc. Sustainable in agriculture is believed can give present and future good benefit to the farmers and society. However, in dairy sector in Malaysia, the sustainability concepts and practices seems not fully aware by the farmers which result in low...

The “Aquaculture Big Numbers” research project seeks to: provide baseline information on the present status of the aquaculture sector from a human development perspective; identify the types and numbers of people employed by the sector; and explore the role of aquaculture in providing social and economic services at a global level, with a particular emphasis on small-scale stakeholders. The res...

Newspaper stories of building or expanding large-scale animal operations generally indicate that nearby communities, or at least a vocal minority, oppose the development of concentrated operations. However, conflict about the beginning or intensification of operations says little about the persistence of the controversy or the negative public opinion. A survey of 53 large-scale swine facility p...

intergenerational succession aims at the renewal of family farm and addresses the problem of increasing aged population of principal farm owners. this study assessed poultry farm characteristics and poultry farmers’ perception of farm succession planning in southwest nigeria. a multistage sampling procedure was used in selecting poultry farmers in oyo and osun states.  data were analyzed using ...

AIM The aim of this work was to study the tolerance level of farmers toward different human-wildlife conflict (HWC) situations. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted in 24 villages of nine blocks from Kancheepuram, Coimbatore, Erode, and Krishnagiri districts of Tamil Nadu by personally interviewing 240 farmers affected with four different HWC situations such as human-elephant confli...