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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Agricultural Inputs"”.
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Promoting Urban Agriculture Through Improved Agricultural Inputs: A Case of KiseweVegetable Growers: Chamazi Ward Temeke Municipality, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
… on promoting Urban Agriculture through use of Agricultural Inputs, a case of Kisewe Vegetables growing group. The objective of the assessment was to identify the real needs of the community and ways on how to solve them. To execute objective, the assessment used participatory urban appraisal …
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Rebuilding Livelihoods: An Assessment on the Impact of Limited Access to Agricultural Inputs in Pageya ‘B’ Village Awach Sub County Gulu District
The study “assess the impact of limited access to agricultural inputs was conducted in Pageya B village Awach Sub-County in Gulu District,” had conducted four research objectives; to examine demographic characteristics, identify the factors /problems affecting rebuilding of livelihoods, establish …
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The Challenges and Prospects of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Accessing Credit Facility: A Case Study of Agricultural Inputs Sellers and Distributors in Arusha City
… and prospects which sellers and distributors of agricultural input in the SMEs sampled from the City of Arusha face in accessing credit from financial institutions. The study aimed to attain three objectives, namely: To assess the nature of the SMEs in which the sellers and distributors of …
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Farmers' Resource Status and Information Availability and Utilization: A Study Within Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan
… farmer's access to and utilization of improved agricultural inputs and information. This study, which classified farmers into three resource status groups based on income, farm size, and land holdings, had two main purposes. First, it examined the effect of resource status on access to new …
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The new philanthropy and smallholder farmers' livelihoods. A case study of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) in the northern region of Ghana
… farmers who purchased improved seeds and other agricultural inputs registered significant increases. However, this study identified some bottlenecks inhibiting access to agricultural inputs by smallholder farmers. Majority of smallholder farmers revealed that they could not afford them (seeds, …
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Drivers of adoption and impacts of smallholder climate-resilient agricultural technologies
… current challenges facing the adoption of agricultural technologies and practices in developing countries. I focus on climate-resilient technologies that are particularly important. The studies cover (i) the evaluation of the effects of a country-wide market-smart input subsidy program on …
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Impacts of foreign assistance on less-developed countries' agricultural productivity
… foreign assistance on less-developed countries' agricultural productivity. The study employed a Cobb- Douglas production function model. Several alternative model specifications were utilized in an attempt to model the true relationship between agricultural inputs and output. First, the foreign …
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Building capacity of rural youth and extension workers in agriculture as a business: evidence from a field experiment in Malawi
… to land, capital, political influence, and agricultural inputs, which are often controlled by governments, private industry, or village elders. This project implemented a learning program in the East Lilongwe district testing the effects of a 10 week agricultural entrepreneurship course that …
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Agricultural productivity and climate shocks in developing countries
… three chapters studying factors limiting agricultural productivity in developing countries. Climate change is a significant threat for the developing world countries, and agricultural households experience changes in their productive context, forcing them to adapt to the new environment. …
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Land reform and economic development : case study on Romania
… policies such as easy access to credit and agricultural inputs, production and social infrastructure. State involvement is crucial for supporting these services.
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Defining nutrient co-location typologies for human-derived supply and crop demands to advance resource recovery
… improving access to sanitation and renewable agricultural inputs. Proximity between human-derived nutrient supply and crop nutrient demands influence how nutrients are recovered in order to be a competitive alternative to synthetic fertilizers. For 107 countries, we analyze the co-location of …
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Total factor productivity of tropical soybean-maize systems: the case of the safrinha crop system in Mato Grosso, Brazil
Improving agricultural productivity has been an important area of research to assure that the needs of a growing population do not outstrip the ability for producers to supply food. This growth in demand will mostly come from developing countries. The tension between producing more food and …
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Factors Affecting Household Food Security: A Case Study of Mtwara Rural District-Mtwara Region
… in farming. Further, about 95.5% did not apply agricultural inputs. It was revealed that, 56.8% of all food was sold immediately after harvest. The study revealed that, 75% of storage structures were kitchen ceiling and 24.2% polythene bags. About 79.1% did not treat food before storage. About …
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Numerical modeling of agricultural tile drainage water quality with health considerations
… were calibrated and verified with 4 production agricultural field sites to better quantify and qualify nitrogen fate and transport and their potential impact on human health and the environment. In addition, health impacts were reviewed with respect to variable agricultural inputs. The numerical …
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Impact of International Trade on Coffee Industry: The Case of Kagera Region in North-West Tanzania
… coffee industry and low level of application of inputs. The collected data were verified, coded and analysed by using statistics analysis, the least square method and time series analysis in the form of linear equation to reveal that there is increased import dependency that makes the price of …
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Lowveld cotton : a political ecology of agricultural failure in Natal and Zululand, 1844-1948
This dissertation is a study of agricultural failure. It follows the efforts of settlers, then scientists, to impose cotton as a commodity crop in the eastern region of South Africa, known today as KwaZulu-Natal. Touted as a commodity crop capable of remaking land and life in this region in the …
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Interactive Effects of Cover Crops, Invertebrate Communities and Soil Health in Corn Production Systems
… biodiversity and soil health is the goal of many agricultural practices used in regenerative farming; regenerative systems employ practices which abide by the two main principles of increasing biodiversity and decreasing disturbance, with the goal of encouraging ecosystem functioning to minimize …
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Evaluation of the financial challenges faced by contract farmers in achieving transformation in the agricultural sector in South Africa
Access to finance is an essential factor in the agricultural value chain and enables participants to purchase essential inputs and infrastructure (e.g. machinery and land) necessary for the production process, grading, processing, packaging and distribution of their produce. Finance is also …
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Smallholder women empowerment: the case of Norwegian agricultural programme in Senanga, Zambia.
… data. Programme benefits included; trainings, agricultural inputs, credit and market access. Most participating smallholder farmers benefited more from provision of farming inputs such as seed (74 percent), fertilizer (72 percent) and training (32 percent). None reported benefits due to credit …
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