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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Farmers--Attitudes"”.
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Kansas farmers' attitudes toward cooperatives
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Farmers' attitudes and barriers towards the production of cellulosic bioenergy crops in the Midwestern U.S.
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Small Fruit Production in Mountain Areas with the use of Biocontrol Agents: Investigating Farmers' Attitudes and Consumers' Choice in Trentino.
… in which they are to be applied and by farmersâ€TM attitudes, these factors have been poorly investigated in BCA research and development programs. This thesis empirically investigates the farmersâ€TM attitude to an IPM that employs BCAs extensively to understand which are the factors …
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Sustaining farmers markets in low-income, urban areas : exploring farmer participation and market development
… research questions. First, what motivates farmers to participate in farmers markets in low-income, urban areas? Second, what is the process of development for small, early-stage farmers markets in these communities? Third, what are farmers' attitudes regarding Electronic Benefits Transfer …
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Crop raiding and conflict: Farmers’ perceptions of human-wildlife interactions in Hoima district, Uganda
… one year (November 2006 to November 2007), and farmers’ attitudes to crop raiding were explored through interviews and focus groups. Most farms lost less than 1% of their crops, and more than half of farms did not experience crop damage by large vertebrates (primates, porcupine, bush pig and …
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Applying Theory To Management: Assessing the Practicality of Leopold's Land Ethic and the Risk Information and Processing (RISP) Model for Wildlife Management
… in the local whitetail deer population, and (2) farmers' attitudes towards and motivations for participation in federal conservation programs beneficial to wildlife. The first of these projects found that attitudes exerted the greatest influence on hunters' information seeking behaviors towards …
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Farmer's attitudes towards the formation of cooperatives in rural areas: A study of irrigation schemes in Makhado Local Municipality
… tools for enhancing the living standards of farmers in rural areas. It is therefore very clear that cooperatives are for the benefit of the farmers. However, the development of cooperatives in the study area is not at a desired level yet; hence, it is necessary to determine the farmers’ …
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Decision-Making in Agriculture: Why do Farmers Decide to Adopt a New Practice?
… Greater understanding is needed of why farmers decide to adopt or reject different practices. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has been used in an agricultural context to examine adoption. The TAM posits that perceptions of a practice’s usefulness (PU) and its ease of use (PEOU) …
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Agricultural commercialisation through innovation platforms: a case for goat production
… value chain, and even less emphasis on improving farmers' attitudes. The largest goat population in South Africa is found in the Northern Cape where there is great potential to be realised for goat farming. The main objective of this study was to identify supply side (production) factors …
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Internet of things (IoT) and business intelligence (BI) for sustainable macadamia and avocadoes commercial farming: from farms in the Vhembe District, Limpopo, South Africa
… factor in disseminating farming information to farmers. Farming information is regarded as a critical factor for decision-making for farmers. In South Africa, farmers access farming information through ICT channels. However, the lack of knowledge and skill sets in IoT prohibits farmers from …
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Managing ground water contamination from agricultural nitrates
… management and quality issues, and gauge farmers’ attitudes toward ground water quality and agricultural chemical use. Results of the model indicate that substantial reductions in current nitrate loadings are possible with relatively minor impacts on farmers’ net returns through the use of …
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Space and resource use of Cape Vultures at an isolated colony in the Western Cape: importance of livestock agriculture to this thriving population
… fallen livestock, and understand local farmers' attitudes toward these vultures to secure their food supply for the future. In this study, we use GPS tracking data from juvenile Cape Vultures that were tagged at this colony. Using the tracking data from six birds with sufficient data we …
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Coping with uncertainty: perspectives on sustainability of smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
… Schools), and (iii) qualitative perceptions of farmers and researchers to investigate sustainability of smallholder farms. The smallholder farms in the low-to-medium agricultural potential areas were moving in the direction of unsustainability with performance of major indictors related to soil …
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Benchmarking and management behaviours of top sheep and beef cattle farmers
… of top performing sheep and beef cattle farmers in the South Island of New Zealand. The more specific objectives were to understand the management behaviours of a selected group of top performing farmers along with a study of the role of information in benchmarking and good management …
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An empirical investigation into the uptake, motivations and constraints and the factors affecting farmers’ renewable energy investment intentions
… constraints and the factors affecting farmers’ RE investment intentions. Building on extant research literature (institutional theory, social cognition theory, theory of planned behaviour and the resource based view) a novel comprehensive and multidimensional model of entrepreneurial …
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Three Essays on Adoption and Impact of Agricultural Technology in Bangladesh
… affect the length of time before Bangladeshi farmers adopt an agricultural technology. The paper provides two conclusions: 1) even though the non-parametric estimate of the hazard function indicated a non-monotone model such as log-normal or log-logistic, no differences are found in the sign …
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Determination and modelling of energy consumption in wheat production using neural networks : "A case study in Canterbury Province, New Zealand"
New Zealand farmers practice a form of 'industrialised‘ agriculture that relies on relatively high inputs of fossil fuels, not only to power machinery directly but also for manufacturing artificial fertilizers and agrichemicals (Wells, 2001). Consequently, New Zealand is one of the countries with …