Meeting greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets will require a significant increase in electricity production from sustainable and renewable sources such as solar energy. Farmers have recognized this need chance to the profitability of their farms by allocating farmland power production. However, shift agriculture has many tradeoffs, arising primarily alternative land uses other means This paper...

Greenhouse farmers are exposed to many risk factors during work. This paper characterized the risk factors and discussed their health impacts among greenhouse farmers. Risk factors under greenhouse conditions emerged from pesticide application and greenhouse gas emission from soil during day. Risk factors among farmers were determined by recording toxicity symptoms, acute and chronic obstructiv...

energy is considered as an important input for agricultural products. a decrease in energy subsidy and its demand reduces agricultural outputs and raises the production costs. changes in production and costs may significantly affect welfare of the agricultural producers. the main objective of this study was to analyze the impact of increased energy prices (reduction in the subsidy) on the agric...

Considerable research documents why women farmers have lower technology adoption rates than men farmers, but relatively little is known about what happens within a household after uptake. This study contributes through an investigation of the intrahousehold distribution benefits and costs agricultural in western Kenya. Using gender-disaggregated data endogenous switching regression approach, we...

Soil erosion is one of the most important forms of land degradation that threatens continued and sustained agricultural production in Ghana. The most severely affected areas are the three northern regions especially Upper East Region, where large tracts of land have been destroyed by water erosion leading to soil depth reduction and decline in soil fertility. This study was carried out in Talen...

Two major concerns for cement factories are environmental aspects and production costs. The number of cement factories is increasing in Iran which from an environmental point of view is not favorable. Different pozzolans such as brick, potted clay, volcanic rocks, sedimentary rocks and rice bran were used in the cement produced by Lamerd factory in the south of Iran. Among these additives, ...

The study used Cobb-Douglas stochastic profit function to estimate farm-level profit function, economic efficiency and it determinants among homestead based cassava farmers in the south-south region of Nigeria. Two-stage random sampling method was used to select 300 homestead based cassava farmers in the study area. Maximum likelihood estimates of the specified models reveal an average economic...

Human excreta is a low cost source of nutrients vital to plant growth, but also a source of pathogens transmissible to people and animals. We investigated the cost-savings and infection risk of soil transmitted helminths (STHs) in four scenarios where farmers used either inorganic fertilizer or fresh/composted human excreta supplemented by inorganic fertilizer to meet the nutrient requirements ...

one of the farmers' marketing decisions is how to sell their products to the market. they sell their products in different ways, for example pre-sell, local dealers and wholesalers,. this paper aims at investigating citrus distribution channels and evaluation of factors affecting the choice of each channels by mazandaran ‘s producers. the data was collected by simple random sampling method. 252...

Economic evaluations are critical for the assessment of the efficiency and sustainability of animal health surveillance systems and the improvement of their efficiency. Methods identifying and quantifying costs and benefits incurred by public and private actors of passive surveillance systems (i.e. actors of veterinary authorities and private actors who may report clinical signs) are needed. Th...