Smallholder agriculture involves millions of farmers worldwide. A methodical utilization of their traditional knowledge in modern breeding efforts may help the production of locally adapted varieties better addressing their needs. In this study, a combination of participatory approaches, genomics, and quantitative genetics is used to trace the genetic basis of smallholder farmer preferences of ...

the study was conducted among the two farmer groups in bhaktapur and kavre districts of nepal. the main objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of ipm ffs on creating awareness and disseminating the knowledge on sustainable pest management to the farmers and to assess the relationships between enhanced ipm knowledge and adoption of ipm strategies by the farmers. the study has be...

Recently, retailers who directly deal with poultry farmers increase in Japan. It therefore becomes necessary for the poultry farmers to deliver products to the retailers frequently in accordance with the retailers’ demand. The retailer purchases (raw) chicken meat from the poultry farmer. The stock of the poultry farmer increases due to growth, in contrast, the inventory level of the retailer i...

Reinhold Haux1; Stefanie Kuballa1; Mareike Schulze1; Claudia Böhm2; Olaf Gefeller 3; Jan Haaf 2; Peter Henning 2; Corinna Mielke1; Florian Niggemann 2; Andrea Schürg 2; Dieter Bergemann 2 1Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics, University of Braunschweig and Hannover Medical School, Braunschweig, Germany; 2 Schattauer Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany; 3 Institute for Medical Informatic...

In this paper we present a variant of message sequence diagrams called EETs Extended Event Traces We provide the graphical notation discuss the methodological use of EETs to describe behavior of object oriented busi ness information systems and sketch their semantics Special emphasis is put on the di erent implications of using EETs for exemplary and complete interaction descriptions The possib...

Participation is the encouragement and mental involvement of a person to contribute. Be responsible for his group increase awareness. Organize groups where individual characteristics differ from one another. The purpose study was determine level farmer participation relationship between members. method determining respondents using census method. Analyzing dependent variable independent variabl...