due to the conservational agriculture as a factor of increasing food security and sustainable agriculture, understanding the determinant factors in the farmers' decision making to enhance adoption scale of conservational agriculture, is quite important. therefore, the current study attempted to investigate the effective factors and barriers to agricultural technology adaption among the whe...

Agricultural education can help farmers to increase production, preserve natural resources, and provide nutritious food, thus contributing to a better quality of life. The advent of ICT revolution has provided many ways for supporting successfully the agricultural e-education. To this end, this paper focuses on supporting agricultural education through the use of digital learning repositories a...

Evidence on foodborne disease (FBD) in low and middle income countries (LMICs) is still limited, but important studies in recent years have broadened our understanding. These suggest that developing country consumers are concerned about FBD; that most of the known burden of FBD disease comes from biological hazards; and, that most FBD is the result of consumption of fresh, perishable foods sold...

The potential of beekeeping to mitigate the exposure of rural sub-Sahara African farmers to economic stochasticity has been widely promoted by an array of development agencies. Robust outcome indicators of the success of beekeeping to improve household well-being are unfortunately lacking. This study aimed to identify the key drivers and barriers of beekeeping adoption at the household level, a...

This paper presents an application of a two and three stages difference in differences model to measure environmental and economic impacts of Farmer Field School on crop and pest management practices of rice in Thailand. Panel data from 241 farm households were collected three times over a period of four years in five rice-producing provinces of Thailand. Data included socio-economic data descr...

The vanilla commodity, which once triumphed in its era the 1980s, has experienced a decline due to selling prices 1890s. It resulted many farmers switching other commodities. One of Independent Agricultural and Rural Training Centers that empowers is Griya Vanili Salatiga, better known as P4S Vanilla. aims this study were 1) determine condition assisted Salatiga; 2) know role Salatiga towards f...

Ted Keen, a farmer from Wilson County, lost his life when a tractor trailer truck traveling 70 miles per hour rear-ended his tractor in the spring of 2003. This incident was the catalyst for addressing the issue of highway safety with farm equipment. Research data also indicated that this was a need for farmers in Wilson and the surrounding counties. The University of North Carolina Highway Saf...