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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Farming areas"”.
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Characteristics of pigs under communal production systems in resource-poor farming areas of Vhembe District in Limpopo Province
… the time of the study, spread over six village areas was drawn. Data were collected from the respondents through the use of structured questionnaire. Weighing of piglets was also conducted and heart girth measurements were recorded as well. The results show that most producers were above the age …
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Livestock production and animal health management systems in communal farming areas at the wildlife-livestock interface in southern Africa
Development of transfrontier conservation areas (TFCAs) in southern Africa depends, among other, on the ability of stakeholders to find practical and sustainable solutions for wildlife‐livestock integration in the conservation landscape. Due to the presence of buffalo Syncerus caffer in most of the …
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Exploring Changes in Poverty in Zimbabwe between 1995 and 2001 using Parametric and Nonparametric Quantile Regression Decomposition Techniques
… account for more of the difference. In communal farming areas, the effect of returns was positive while, in urban Harare, it was negative.
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Evaluating human fecal contamination sources in Kranji Reservoir Catchment, Singapore
… weather in residential, horticultural and animal farming areas. The DNA analysis results showed that 94% of the 34 environmental DNA water samples collected in residential, horticultural and animal farming areas were positive to the HF marker. Generally, 74% and 94% of DNA samples respectively …
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Agro Informatics System
… can be defined as the science or practice of farming, including the growing of crops and the rearing of animals.Agriculture is one of the most important sectors in Zambia's economy and could benefittremendously with the application of information communication technology. Due to tremendous …
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Agro Informatics System
… can be defined as the science or practice of farming, including the growing of crops and the rearing of animals.Agriculture is one of the most important sectors in Zambia's economy and could benefittremendously with the application of information communication technology. Due to tremendous …
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Chronic Kidney Disease Unidentified (CKDu) in Sri Lanka: Towards an Integrated Solution
… its discovery, it has found in other neighboring farming areas. The Sri Lankan Government has taken various measures to address the CKDu crisis but the spread of the disease has not been contained. My thesis is that a coordinated and bottom-up approach is the most effective way of addressing the …
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Modelling the impact of future climate change on subregional wheat production in the Western Cape
… impacts on wheat in 21 relatively homogeneous farming areas (RHFAs) across the province.
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A damming history: an analysis on the legacy effects of beaver dams on the composition and structure of a montane riparian ecosystem
… explored how vegetative communities differed in areas of beaver occupancy history, land management impacts, and distance from the river. This study was conducted in the Kawuneeche Valley of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Field methods focused on vegetative surveys around historic, …
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Mycotoxin health risk assessment modelling among maize-subsistence farmers living in Centane, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
… to contaminate maize crops from subsistence farming areas in Centane, Eastern Cape Province (EC), South Africa. The daily consumption of home-grown maize in these areas has resulted in FB exposure of five to ten times above the recommended provisional maximum tolerable daily intake (PMTDI) of …
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Uso e disponibilidade local de Sideroxylon obtusifolium (Roem. & Schult.) T.D. Penn. (quixabeira) em três regiões da depressão sertaneja da Paraíba, nordeste do Brasil.
… Alegre, distributed into agro forest yards, farming areas and near roads. It was recorded 140 bark extractions which are indicated for 17 diseases, standing out the treatment of general infections. It was accounted 65 use citations in Barroquinha, 85 in Pereiro and 20 in Várzea Alegre. The …
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Coping with Human-Elephant Conflict in Laikipia District, Kenya
… time, rapid population growth has put protected areas under intense pressure through encroachment. Human-elephant conflict is only a microcosm of the wider ecological struggle for survival between humans and wildlife. In this study, data is analysed on human-elephant conflict in the subsistence …
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Importance of utilization of social capital in agro-based poverty reduction strategies in smallholder farming area in North-Eastern Zimbabwe
… Zimbabwe aiming to reduce poverty in smallholder farming communities. However, limited success has been realized. This highlights the need for finding lasting solutions to this challenge. The current study investigated how poverty could be tackled considering its linkages with social capital and …
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Agricultural tenancy and contracts: an economic analysis of the strange farmer system in the Gambia
… West African hinterland to farm in the coastal areas of the Senegambia region due to certain transaction cost advantages, constitute a dynamic population adjustment to West Africa's spatial, unequal spread of resources. It is argued in this study that the reason "strange farming" has continued …
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Quantification of pyrethroid and organophosphate metabolites in hair and urine samples of rural children from the Western Cape, South Africa using the two-dimensional gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
… and pyrethroids (PYRs) in the Western Cape's farming regions raises significant health concerns, particularly for children, whose developing bodies are more susceptible to the toxic effects of these chemicals. Regular monitoring of these insecticide concentrations in human biological matrices …
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The Conservation Ecology of Rana temporaria and Bufo bufo in Leicestershire
Past and present surveys of Leicestershire farming areas showed that amphibian habitat has been reduced as land use diversities, scrubs, woodland and thorn hedge cover have decreased within the previous decade. Breeding pond surveys revealed Rana temporaria to breed in areas with no rough …
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Optimizing the management of soil erosion using GIS
… The optimization process allocated dryland-farming areas to rangelands if no changes are made to the current supporting practice system. The expected annual sediment yield from the entire sub-basin was reduced by 2420 t/y (or by 5%) and the annual net farm income was increased by 3.99 …
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An integrated plant nutrition system (IPNS) for corn and cannabis in the Mid-Atlantic USA
… when considering the reutilization of inputs in farming areas. Non-renewable resources have been transformed or relocated from the air, water and land into the system and are flowing out as wastes rather than reusable, recyclable resources. Therefore, current trends in agriculture have moved …
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Soil conservation and the white agrarian environment in Colonial Zimbabwe, c. 1908-1980
… by the formation of Intensive Conservation Areas (ICAs) in settler farming districts whose mandate was to oversee the construction of conservation works to rehabilitate settler farms. With the support of the Natural Resources Board (NRB), and the Department of Conservation and Extension …
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