the aim of the study was to determine the farmer's behavior in adoption of ipm technologies in rice growing fields. a questionnaire was employed as the tool of survey. population of the study consisted of the farmers taking apart in ipm/ffs participant groups in gilan and mazandaran provinces each with 3 years of experience in ipm. from among them, 305 were selected as the research sample....

This study aims to determine the role of farmer groups in improving socio-economic status rice farmers before and after becoming members groups. research method is descriptive. Determination number samples using proportional sampling method. The results showed that played a economic lowland with total score 1,283 an average 33.76. In conclusion, member group was low increased high group.
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This study aims to assess health effects caused by organophosphate pesticides exposure among farmers (n=35) and non-farmers (n=35) in Sisa Krabue sub-district, Ongkharak district, Nakhon Nayok province. The research design of this study was a cross-sectional study during pesticide application period from January to March 2013. Questionnaire and Test-mate ChE (Model 400) for blood cholinesterase...

India traditionally is an agrarian economy, where even today 40% of the country’s GDP is derived from agriculture and agriculture products. Lately the Indian farmer community was not exposed to the use of ICT for its well-being, but since the Indian private sector has entered the arena, the acceptability of the latest innovations and tools by the farmer has increased. EID Parry, the group compa...

We study the effect of offering index insurance to groups versus individuals on individual’s savings and insurance decisions in a lab experiment in the field, which offers real index insurance. We also look at how the network relationships among dairy farmers in the Dominican Republics affects the demand for group index insurance. Individuals offered group insurance are exogenously grouped acco...

Farmer groups are the cornerstone of many agricultural projects in low income countries. The success such crucially depends on ability group members to cooperate. We conducted a series public goods experiments study within-group cooperation Malawian farmer groups. combine results from these with survey data and qualitative interviews. Our shed light heterogeneous capacity find that democratical...