The purpose of this study was to determine the push and pull factors promoting agroforestry tree crop depletion on rural household in Delta State. A multistage sampling technique was used. The sample size for the study was 120 farmers. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire. The data collected were analyzed with descriptive statistics such as chart, means derived from 5-point like...

Research on the epidemiology of agriculture-related injuries has largely ignored African-Americans and farm workers. This cohort study is the first to estimate injury rates and to evaluate prospectively risk factors for agriculture-related injuries and compare them among African-American and Caucasian farmers and African-American farm workers. A total of 1,246 subjects (685 Caucasian owners, 32...

During the early 1980s, U.S. agriculture underwent its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression in spite of record spending on government agricultural programs. In this chapter we test the hypothesis that the severity of the crisis may have been moderated if agricultural policy had been more flexible. Prior to the 1985 Farm Bill (U.S. Department of Agriculture 1986), agricultural polic...

t he purpose of this study was to examine farm operations cooperation groups in central agricultural zone of delta state, nigeria. all the members of the six  selected groups were used for the study. the data which were collected with the use of questionnaire and interview schedule were analyzed with the use of frequency counts, percentages and tobit regression model. most of the members were ...

Surveys conducted in the state of Ohio in 1982 and again in 1990 indicate the rate of farm accidents remains very high. The 1982 survey showed that nearly one-third (30.2 percent) of all farms surveyed (n = 918) experienced a farm-related accident during the 3-year period from 1980 to 1982. The 1990 survey revealed that 15 percent of all farms surveyed (n=574) experienced at least one farm acci...

The face of agricultural lending has changed dramatically over the last several decades from both a demand and supply perspective. Farm numbers are down, but size is up. The distribution of farms is increasingly bimodal; 2% of farms today produce over one half of total sales. Largesized operations are capital intensive, utilizing the latest technologies embodied in variable and fixed inputs to ...

The study was designed to investigate the comparative analysis of agricultural credit users and non-users among cassava farmers in Ohafia Local Government Area of Abia State. A sample of 50 credit users and 50 non-credit user cassava-based farmers were selected by multistage random sampling technique. Data were collected with a well structured questionnaire administered to a total of 100 random...

the objective of the present research was to investigate the agricultural jihad organization (ajo) specialists' attitudes towards sustainable agriculture concepts in the east azerbaijan and to find out about its determinants. a descriptive-correlational method was used in the study. the sampling population of the study consisted of all the ajo specialists in east azerbaijan (n=200). a samp...

A sample survey of 74 commercial dairy farmers was conducted between November 2002 and February 2003 in three Zobatat (zones) of Eritrea to identify factors that affect the adoption of livestock insurance. The results of a logit model indicate that formal education of the farmer and the farmer’s awareness of livestock insurance increase the probability of insurance adoption, whereas farming exp...