(1) Background: Rare empirical evidence has been explored concerning the ways in which training affects farmers’ adoption of resource conservation technology agricultural production. This study attempts to analyze role three factors, including absorptive capacity, social interaction and active learning, bridging drip fertigation system (DFS), based on primary data 632 banana farmers collected C...

agricultural training centres (atcs) promote crop and livestock development by providing extension information to farmers and serving as models of improved crop and livestock husbandry practices. although potato farmers in nyandarua county were trained on potato production technologies, their average yield was ≤16 tonnes per hectare compared to the national potential of 30 tonnes. this study th...

the study was conducted to indicate the determinants of technical efficiency of the dairy farmers in ada’a district of oromia state, ethiopia. the study was arranged in four purposively selected peasant associations of the peri-urban and four kebeles of the urban dairy production sub-systems from which thirty dairy farmers were selected randomly. a total of two hundred forty respondents were pe...

OBJECTIVES We aimed at testing a model of the direct and indirect effects of being a part-time farmer on the probability of being involved in an agricultural machinery-related accident, considering the role played by unsafe beliefs and the frequency of use of machinery. METHODS Two-hundred and fifty-two Italian men, regular users of agricultural machinery (age: Mean = 45.1 years, standard Dev...

this study aimed at determining the efficiency of sugar beet growers in borujerd city, iran. data were collected from 2010-11 growing season by random sampling of sugar beet growers and filling 100 questionnaires and analyzed using data envelopment analysis (dea) method. results showed that the average technical, economical and special efficiencies were 0.83, 0.79, and 0.84 in fixed output stat...

Description: Support to smallholder irrigation agriculture by virtue of establishing smalland medium-scale irrigation perimeters along the Eastern and South-Eastern slopes of Mt Kenya. In the first two phases (phase III ongoing, phase IV under preparation) approx. 2,700 smallholder farmers benefited from the establishment of 1,785 hectares of newly irrigated land (6 perimeters with altogether 4...

A project of the CGIAR systemwide program on Soil, Water and Nutrient Management (SWNM), concerned with improving integrated nutrient management practices on small-scale farms in Africa, has been carried out in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda for last two years (September 1999 to September 2001). The project aims to enable small-scale farmers to profitably reverse nutrient depletion of their soils b...

Background & Aim: Medicinal Plants of the raw materials necessary for the manufacturing industry provides, One of the main products of the country are, On the other hand, the villages, the economic development, the central role, the key is unmatched, To achieve this must be provided opportunities to increase revenue in villages, And one of these occasions, in the province of Charmahal-o-bakhtiy...