Smallholder farming systems form unique ecosystems that can protect beneficial soil biota and form an important source of useful genetic resources. They are characterized by high level of agricultural diversity mainly focused on meeting farmers' needs. Unfortunately, these systems often experience poor crop production mainly associated with poor planning and resource scarcity. Soil fertility is...

Smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa have undergone changes in land use, productivity and sustainability. Understanding of the drivers that have led to changes in land use in these systems and factors that influence the systems' sustainability is useful to guide appropriate targeting of intervention strategies for improvement. We studied low input Teso farming systems in eastern Ug...

Besides producing milk and other products, dairy farms also generate manure polluting the environment. This study aims to identify smallholder farmers' utilization of cattle in West Java reasons that hinder it. uses IndoDairy end-line survey data, covering 410 farmers four districts (Bandung, Garut, Cianjur, Bogor) December 2021. A qualitative descriptive analysis was employed. The results show...

Abstract Current Indonesian beef production only meets 45% of local demand. Increasing through integration cattle in pre-existing oil palm plantations is a possible solution to meeting this shortfall. The understorey provides feed, alleviating the need convert additional land agriculture. Smallholders are important contributors both and production. This case study research seeks understand key ...

Editorial PrEfacE The growing use of new generation, mobile-based, information and communication technologies (ICT) has expanded opportunities for food and agricultural marketing and rural financial service delivery among the smallholder farming community in Sub-Saharan Africa. Smallholder farmers in developing countries have struggled for many years under difficult conditions of poor access to...

This study was undertaken to investigate the impact of microfinance on agricultural productivity by smallholder farmers in Makurdi Metropolis of Benue State, Nigeria. Data were randomly collected from 120 farmers consisting of 60 credit beneficiaries (CB) and 60 non-credit beneficiaries (NCB) by which were analyzed through descriptive statistics and multiple regression analysis. The results of ...

Farmers in Subang Regency, West Java Province, are still focused on conventional farming and have not used group management. So that the level of welfare farmers Regency is optimal. This study aims to look at institutional management problems smallholder livestock herds, increase knowledge skills breeders procedures see effect increasing quality breeders. The method this research FGD, counselin...

The study investigated the effect of Community-Based Paid Extension (CPE) on vulnerability reduction of smallholder dairy farmers. Randomly sampled 255 farmers were interviewed together with 15 key informants’ interview. Both statistical analysis and thematic approach were employed to achieve triangulation. In about 68 % of cases, CPE reduced vulnerability to a degree experienced as ‘moderate’,...

Factors that influence the success of a cattle breeding business are seeds, feed and health management in form disease control. The often occurs is helminthiasis. This research was to analyze an incidence helminthiasis beef cattle. used observation method. Data collection done by taking all fecal samples from 391 Seputih Raman sub-district. A examination checked with Mc. Master Sedimentation te...