In this paper, details of Embrapa’s Information Agency will be presented. It was designed as a space for exchange of knowledge among farmers, agricultural researchers and rural extension technicians. In the system, information is organized using two criteria. Firstly, every identified resource is cataloged in accordance to Dublin Core Metadata Standard. Secondly, a set of terms belonging to the...

ordered probit model was employed to investigate the factors affecting access to credit, allocated by iran agricultural bank to the needy in kohgilouieh and boirahmad province. based on the received credits, farmers were divided into five groups and the model estimated for these groups. the required data were collected by filling up of a number of 198 questionnaires by farmers in kohgilouieh an...

A survey was conducted to determine the socio-economic importance and methods of controlling weeds among rural farmers in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. The population of the study consists of all rural farmers in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State. A total of 150 respondents were randomly selected from the five council wards of the study area. Data for t...

This report examines samples of farms from Honduras departments that have and do not have tilapia ponds as part of their farming systems. Data were obtained through personal interviews with 128 farmers, including 64 tilapia producers, in five departments: Olancho, Intibuca, El Paraíso, Francisco Morazán, and Santa Bárbara. To obtain information about farms without tilapia, farmers were selected...

The study focused on the analysis of production and marketing constraints of tomato among rural farmers in Talensi Nabdam district of Upper East Region of Ghana.A total of 100 respondents were interviewed using questionnaire. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics to describe the socio economic characteristics of the farmers and Kendall’s Coefficient of Concordance was used to rank the ...

China’s internal migration is estimated at >120 million; farmers make up 70% of them. There are 4.5 million Chinese suffering from TB, cause of highest number of death from infectious diseases. We ask “Is out-migration for work a risk factor of TB?” In 2002-04 we studied 160 new TB cases and 320 controls in rural Henan. Results of statistical analyses confirm that work migration is a significan...

introduction the most important subject in villager's researches is survey of household's incomes. most of iran villagers are farmers and they live with money of selling agriculture outputs. then every event that damages their outputs, can cause villagers poor. in this paper, we introduce a model for studying the effects of agriculture outputs improvement on poverty in villages. for e...

Highly erratic rainfall patterns in northern Benin complicate the ability of rural farmers to engage in subsistence agriculture. This research explores gender-specific responses to climate variability in the context of agrarian Benin through a household survey (n = 260) and an experimental gaming exercise among a subset of the survey respondents. Although men and women from the sample populatio...