Farmers’ adoption

Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the staple food and being the most important ingredient of the food basket for most nations in Asia. The declining productivity of rice and its availability of per capita is therefore a policy concern. Nevertheless, the production of rice in Malaysia is primarily implemented by adopting the conventional technique. This technique has increased the production cost of rice and became a constraint to achieving the production potential for the farmer.

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The research study focuses on the effects of relief food aid on food production and consumption patterns of communal farmers in Chigodora Ward 15, Mutare District. The researcher adopted a descriptive research design. Data collection instruments used in this research study included questionnaires, interviews as well as published documents.

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The present paper provides a case study of rice farmers in the Muda granary area, which covers the states of Kedah and Perlis, using primary data to identify the factors on the adoption of PEP among farmers. The research findings indicate that the key factors determining the farmers’ adoption of the PEP are age, secondary jobs, effective communication with the extension agency, increased rice yield, lower operating cost, lower working time in the fields, and support services, such as assistance, incentives, and facilities from the government.

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The study assessed SLM programs and institutions, examined institutional obstacles to SLM implementation in the selected study sites, and recommended policies and measures that aims to improve the implementation of SLM initiatives. The results show that there are a number of institutional challenges that hindering Vietnamese farmer’s adoption of SLM practices.

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This study aims to explore the influence of information systems, e-technology, and the dynamics of the actors (consumer, retailer, intermediaries, transporter, farmer, and basic suppliers) on the organic supply chain enhancing the growth of the organic business. By adopting secondary data with collected data (primary data) using selfadministrated questionnaires the research work was evaluated. A total of 389 responses from the organic agriculture industrial actors, consumers, and transporters were collected using stratified random sampling methods.

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This study aimed to identify the factors affecting farmers’ adoption of sustainable land management (SLM) practices to combat land degradation in Vietnam. Based on the survey data from 826 farmers in three representative regions, the study showed that the SLM model and SLM adoption rate were quite varied due to differences of natural and socio-economic conditions.

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Continued part 1, part 2 of ebook "Handbook of agricultural economics - Vol 3: Agricultural development: Farmers, farm production and farm markets" provides readers with contents including: plant biotechnology for developing countries; markets, institutions and transaction costs; efficiency and equity effects of land markets; labor decisions, contracts and organization; fertilizers and other farm chemicals; agricultural mechanization - adoption patterns and economic impact; rural financial markets in developing countries; natural resources; soil quality and agricultural development; the eco...

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After years of experimenting, the “One must do, five reductions” (1M5R) (in Vietnam referred to as 1P5G), is being promoted by Vietnam’s Department of Crop Production as an advanced technique in rice production. Nevertheless, a certain proportion of rice farmers in the Mekong Delta are reluctant to implement 1M5R.

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The research "Identifying factors affecting farmers’ adoption of cropping pattern conversion to two rice crops - One cash crop in Vi Tan commune, Hau Giang province" which aims at analyzing factors affecting farmers’ adoption of the 2 rice crops - 1 cash crop pattern was carried out in Vi Tan commune, Hau Giang province in 2017. In the study, data were collected from interviews with 120 farming households who converted their cropping pattern into 2 rice crops - 1 cash crop a year.

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This research "Factors influencing the adoption of good agricultural practices and export decision of thailand’s vegetable farmers" identified and investigated the factors influencing the adoption of good agricultural practices (GAP) and the decision making of small-scale asparagus and sweet corn farmers in Thailand to produce for export.

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The objectives were: to investigate the differences in the socio-economic characteristics of rubber farmers who operate either a rubber mono-cropping system (RMCS) or a rubberbased intercropping system (RBIS), to identify RMCS farmer's attitudes toward RBIS, to determine the decision-making factors influencing the adoption of RBIS, and to examine the different types of intercrop available.

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In India poor market infrastructure, inadequate marketing experience and agricultural inputs are available for the farmers. These farmers need to access information about new technologies before they can consider adopting them and thus they look up to research and extension agents as sources of new technologies. Access to appropriate information and knowledge is an important factor for successful agricultural production.

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The concept of vocational training in agriculture through KVK grew substantially due to greater demand for improved agricultural technology by the farmers. The study was carried out in Tlangnuam block of Aizawl District of Mizoram. The Tlangnuam block was purposively selected because of large number of farmers’ participation in KVK’s training programme. For the selection of respondents, a list of ginger trainees of KVK during preceding three years (2016-17 to 2018-19) was prepared. Out of 210 trainees list, only 60 farmers were randomly selected from KVK adopted villages of Tlangnuam block.

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The present study was undertaken with the following specific objective to study the impact of training imparted by ICAR-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Bidar on scientific method of backyard poultry farming and feeding practices.

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The present study was conducted to know the knowledge of dairy animal owners in animal breeding practices a field survey in Surat district (Mahuva, Mandvi, Umarpada and Mangrol talukas. From each talukas three villages (60 cattle owners) were selected to take the observation related to the study. The present study revealed that majority of dairy farmers were belonged to middle to old age group, educate up to primary and secondary level, marginal to small land holdings, rearing animals up to 10.

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The pandemic has the potential to reduce gender gap in entrepreneurship by altering structural business dynamics. Women farmers come forward to set up new ventures for sustaining their livelihood, viz., transition of apparel designing to school uniform making, business to manufacturing of safety equipments (masks, gloves, PPE kits), preparation of sanitizers etc. Women entrepreneurs acquired new/modified their skills from the existing, redesigned their process of manufacturing and accelerated the adoption of technology to combat the crisis.

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The present investigation was undertaken to know the various management practices adopted by buffalo owners. A sample of 200 farmers was classified into three categorized viz., small, medium and large based on the land holdings, in Katol tahsil.

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Tamil Nadu is one of the water starved states in India. Depletion of natural resources coupled with degradation of land, alteration in water resources, poor productivity, low level of technology adoption, fodder scarcity are posing serious challenges to development and food security of Tamil Nadu. Hence it is necessary to assess the macro level changes in livestock system of Tamil Nadu.

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The present study was carried out during 2018-20 in Jaswantnagar block of Etawah district. Five villages and 120 respondents were selected randomly and data were collected through personal interview method. Collected data were analyzed by using appropriate statistical methods for the interpretation at data. It was found that majority of respondents (58.67%) had medium level of adoption followed by (33.34%) had lowest level of adoption followed by (16.67%) respondents had high level of adoption regarding Bio-fertilizer.

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The present study was undertaken in the four districts viz., Imphal West, Imphal East, Thoubal and Bishnupur district of Manipur, India with the objective of present practices of Artificial Insemination (AI) services among the dairy farmers. Although AI was introduced only in the early 1980’s it has become widely adopted in the region.

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