Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (Figure 1) was born on November 12, 1833, in the capital of the Imperial Russia St. Petersburg, as a rejected and illegitimate son of 62-year-old Georgian prince Luka Gedevanishvili (according to one historical source) or prince Luka Stepanovich Gedeonov (second historical source) and a 37 years younger Russian peasant Evdokia Konstantinovna Antonovna. The father ...

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...