Farmers towards agriculture

This study explores the driving factors for farmers in sustainable paddy farming in Malaysia. The research is exploratory in nature, using interview and observation approaches. Three sustainability factors are focused in this study; namely the economic, social, and environmental dimensions. The results indicate that early exposure and knowledge, education and experience in sustainable agriculture are the driving force behind shifting attitudes towards sustainable agriculture and sustaining practices.

6p longtimenosee06 27-03-2024 2 2   Download

This paper aims at analyzing the situation of land accumulation and concentration in Vietnam in the current circumstance both in theoretical and practical aspects. Since land accumulation and concentration create favorable conditions for mechanization for the moving of the agricultural sector towards a commodity production model, it faces multiple challenges in practices under a variety of forms of accumulation and concentration.

18p visherylsandberg 18-05-2022 8 1   Download

During the past, Vietnamese agriculture has played a fundamental role in reducing poverty and ensuring social stability as well as national food security. On the contrary, the agriculture has not yet developed sustainably when the competitiveness of some agricultural products is not high, the consumption market is unstable, it has not yet formed an effective agricultural value chain and farmers’ income is still low.

13p huyetthienthan 23-11-2021 22 1   Download

This study attempts to measure attitudes toward risk and analyze the influence of farmers' attitudes toward risk on the economic efficiency in hybrid maize cultivation offarm households in the Mekong Delta. Based on the research results, the author has proposed solutions to the reduction of risk aversion and the enhancement of economic efficiency in produoction, contributing to improving the income of farm households.

37p gaocaolon12 14-06-2021 11 2   Download

A number of technological and socio-economic constraints are cited for this poor adoption and up-scaling. With climate change posing a major challenge for rainfed agriculture and the constraints in further expansion of irrigated area in the country, rainwater harvesting and efficient water use are inevitable options to sustain rainfed agriculture in future.

10p chauchaungayxua10 18-03-2021 24 2   Download

The study showed that majority of the farmers (77%) have a favourable attitude towards ICTs followed by 14.25 per cent of the respondents have a highly favourable attitude and 8.75 per cent had least favourable attitudes. This means that there is a scope for higher usage of ICTs in disseminating the agriculture related information among the respondents. Similarly significant association had been found between attitude towards ICTs with age, educational qualification, organizational membership and extension contact.

4p chauchaungayxua11 23-03-2021 11 2   Download

Lead bank is mainly involved in financing towards agriculture sector in the district and also monitors the timely supply and distribution of credit to the farmers mainly for the agriculture operations in the remote rural areas of the district. The study gives clear information about the extent of agriculture financing by the Lead Bank scheme in Bargarh district of Odisha.

6p chauchaungayxua11 23-03-2021 11 1   Download

Exodus of youth from rural areas to urban areas has become an inevitable phenomenon in our country. The rural youth population of India is slowly deserting their origin and swarming towards the urban areas. The exodus of rural youth means fewer small-scale farmers, today and tomorrow. It is a global food security issue too. Having an insight into the rationale behind the exodus behavior of rural youth is hence crucial. Considering this point of view, a study was conducted among 160 migrant rural youths with agricultural background.

14p nguaconbaynhay10 22-01-2021 9 2   Download

The study revealed that RAWE programme is highly useful in getting familiar with rural life and in understanding village situation and institutions, followed by providing practical training in crop production and improving the communication skills.

4p cothumenhmong9 04-01-2021 17 1   Download

In agriculture, the use of pesticide has been the dominant form of pest management since the 1950s to kill pest organisms including insects, weeds, fungi and nematodes. In recent times, use of pesticides in rice and wheat cultivation has increased rapidly and this scenario contributes significantly towards adverse effects on human health, environment and on overall bio-diversity as these two crops are among the major food crops grown in India and study area.

9p gaocaolon9 22-12-2020 17 1   Download

This paper analyzes the attitude of farmers towards crop diversification in Tirunelveli district of Tamil Nadu. Census of India (2011) reported that about 54.60 per cent of the population involved in agriculture and allied activities. The total food grains production in the country was 284.83 million tons during the year of 2017-18. Crop diversification is one of the best options to increase income of the farmers and also leads to food, nutritional and ecological security.

4p trinhthamhodang9 16-12-2020 12 1   Download

The present study has thus been conducted to understand the attitude of the farmers towards crop insurance in the district of Coochbehar in West Bengal.

4p trinhthamhodang9 16-12-2020 10 1   Download

The project is being implemented at large number of research institutes of ICAR, State Agricultural Universities and 100 KVKs. Keeping this in view, an attempt has been made to assess the climate readiness level of the drought prone area farmers of NICRA adopted villages and non-adopted villages of Singanamala mandal of Anantapur district.

4p caygaocaolon8 07-11-2020 10 1   Download

Agricultural education is an important tool in ensuring increased agricultural productivity, sustainability, environmental and ecological security, profitability, job security and equity. Different committees (ICAR Review Committee 1979; Deans Committee 1981) recommended for strong linkage of agricultural education with actual farming situation through the programme.

8p nguaconbaynhay8 13-10-2020 20 1   Download

The main reason to study this area is to evaluate soil health status at various depth by analysing the physical properties of soil. So that to make recommendation towards achieving sustainable utilization and agricultural production. The most important reason for choosing this area is that as of very less research paper in this region most of the farmers are not aware about theresoil condition. Thus, still they are dependent on conventional method without implementing advance technology.

10p trinhthamhodang1215 23-09-2020 15 2   Download

The study concludes that more than fifty percent (62.50%) respondents had medium level of knowledge while only 19.17% falls in the category of high level of knowledge about recommended Brinjal production of technology. This may be due lack of exposure towards agricultural messages from interpersonal and mass media channels.

5p nguaconbaynhay7 15-08-2020 9 1   Download

The objective of the present study was to ascertain the attitude of farmers towards the agricultural extension system of the State Department of Agriculture. The sample consisted of randomly selected 90 farmers from 09 villages of three subdistricts of Udaipur who were regularly in contact with the department functionaries for the last 3 years. For measurement of attitude, Thurston’s equal appearing interval technique was used to construct the scale.

7p angicungduoc6 22-07-2020 12 1   Download

Climate change impacts on agriculture are being witnessed all over the world, but countries like India are more vulnerable in view of the huge population dependent on agriculture, excessive pressure on natural resources and poor coping mechanisms. NICRA is an ICAR initiative launched to focus on educating and demonstrating the climate resilient agriculture technologies to the farmers. The study was conducted in Ananthapuram district of Andhra Pradesh to find out the knowledge of farmers towards climate resilient technologies.

9p angicungduoc6 22-07-2020 15 1   Download

There are 115 million operational holdings in the country and about 80 % are marginal and small farmers. To fulfill the basic needs of house hold including food, feed, fodder, fiber, etc. warrant an attention about bio intensive cropping system (BICS).Global warming and its consequences are amongst the most serious problems of the present century. Agricultural crop residue burning contribute towards the emission of greenhouse gases (CO2, N2O, CH4), air pollutants (CO, NH3, NOx, SO2, NMHC, volatile organic compounds), particulates matter and smoke thereby posing threat to human health.

19p nguaconbaynhay6 24-06-2020 13 0   Download

Agriculture occupies a central position in the Indian economy. It contributes 29.4 percent of GDP, employing 64 percent of the country's workforce. Food price volatility has had a dramatic impact on the food security of poor households in developing countries.

5p guineverehuynh 21-06-2020 10 1   Download