The paddy production in Malaysia is characterised as small-scale agriculture, with modest plots of less than 2 ha and approximately 194,000 farmers employed. Majority these primarily rely on low-income agricultural production. This situation was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic first quarter 2020, resulting a 3.11% reduction (17.03 million tonnes) overall output across Southeast Asia. Rural...

The study was conducted with a sample of 120 sericulture farmers in Kamrup district Assam three development blocks viz. Bongaon, Boko and Chayani Borduwa. revealed that majority (43.33%) the respondents belonged to middle age group, 36.67% were illiterate, 45.83% small size family 69.17% had pucca house. In case operational land holding (34.17%) possessed holding, 33.95% annual income ranging f...

The root cause of agricultural land degradation and decreasing productivity–as seen in terms of loss of soil health–is our low soil­carbon farming paradigm of intensive tillage which disrupts and debilitates many important soil­mediated ecosystem functions. For the most part agricultural soils in tillage­based farming without organic surface residue protection are becoming de­structured and com...

Introduction In rural areas of many tropical countries, pig production is a livelihood for smallholder farmers, who use the pigs as sources of income and food. The benefit of this livelihood is sometimes limited by high costs or the absence of balanced commercial diets, which often results in preparing diets with ingredients low in protein but high in fibre (e.g. banana, harvest by-products) (P...

Based on the survey data of 300 households in Fujian province, system farmers’ choice forestland management mode was constructed by using framework sustainable livelihood analysis, and impact capital analyzed binary logistic model. The research shows that factors have different mode. On this basis, author puts forward some countermeasures to encourage farmers improve their capacity, develop sca...

The concept of sustainable livelihood garnered a prominent status in humanitarian and international development organizations that aim to calculate build for agroforestry farmers. However, it is difficult measure analyze as well visualize the data improvement from (AF). This paper comparatively assessed 400 smallholder farmers’ through AF conventional farming (CF) systems Northern Irrigated Pla...

 Degradation of grassland and the environment restricting access to grazing resources increased pastoral vulnerability to drought and loss of livestock assets which pose threat to pastoral based livelihoods. In respond to these threats many pastoral communities diversify their livelihood to agro-pastoralism. This shift led to increased sedentarization of the pastoralists with many growing crops...