Shrimp and prawn farming in Bangladesh have experienced spectacular growth in response to expanding global demand and higher economic return. In 2011, 180 shrimp and prawn farms were surveyed in Bangladesh to estimate their production efficiency and determine factors affecting the efficiency level. The results show that there are substantial inefficiencies among shrimp and prawn farms. The tech...

this study is aimed at an identification of farmers' knowledge level on soil and water issues, hardware and software requirements, and to characterize farmers' educational priorities in tehran, khuzestan, golestan, and mazandaran provinces. three pilot plans were selected and evaluated in each province. field survey was employed and the required data collected via personal interview w...

This study was conducted to explore the effectiveness of participatory training for promoting farmer's health and reducing agricultural work-related injuries. Candidates for this study included 595 farmers in 8 rural villages of South Korea. The one-day course participatory training was administered to 217 (36.5%) farmers and included an action-checklist, a good example presentation, and group ...

The study was designed to ascertain priorities of smallholder oil palm producers in Ika local government area. One hundred and twenty randomly selected farmers were used. Data were collected by the use of structured interview schedule and analysed using meanscore, percentage and factor analysis. The study showed that smallholder oil palm producers constituted of farmers with mean age of 56year,...

This study was conducted to explore the effectiveness of participatory training for promoting farmer’s health and reducing agricultural work-related injuries. Candidates for this study included 595 farmers in 8 rural villages of South Korea. The one-day course participatory training was administered to 217 (36.5%) farmers and included an action-checklist, a good example presentation, and group ...

This project focuses on building a web-based information delivery system and decision-making capacity in Honduras for institutionalizing low-input-based tilapia systems for smalland medium-scale farmers. Appropriate information for the tilapia system was identified through searches of the literature, visits to farms, interviews with decision makers and experts, and input of stakeholders. Data f...

The present study endeavors to investigate the attitudes, opinions and perceptions of livestock farmers regarding the main problems they face and confine the development of livestock in the Greek region of Evros. Primary data were collected through a quantitative survey (structured questionnaire) with livestock farmers in the region. The analysis of the survey data was carried out with the use ...

AIM The aim of this work was to study the tolerance level of farmers toward different human-wildlife conflict (HWC) situations. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted in 24 villages of nine blocks from Kancheepuram, Coimbatore, Erode, and Krishnagiri districts of Tamil Nadu by personally interviewing 240 farmers affected with four different HWC situations such as human-elephant confli...