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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"cash crops"”.
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Harvesting behavior of perennial cash crops: a decision theoretic study
… analyzed the harvesting behavior of perennial cash-crop growers in Sri Lanka. These growers face two alternatives with respect to harvesting; premature and mature harvesting. The objectives of the study were: to determine the reasons for premature harvesting, to explain this behavior with …
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Geography, history, and economic performance : the emergence and evolution of agrarian institutions in Ecuador.
… natural resources like mineral deposits or cash crops can create a "resource curse." In Ecuador, cash crops production did not create this effect. Instead, the agrarian institutions in provinces with cash crops production allowed more wealth accumulation than the institutions of the …
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Evaluation of the adoption and impact of improved fallow technologies among selected cotton farmers in Zambia
… improved fallows. The use of improved fallows on cash crops other than the staple maize has rarely been investigated. In order to increase the relevance of fallows, the adoption and impact of the technology on some cash crops widely grown within the agro-ecological systems of Zambia, where the …
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Evaluation of the adoption and impact of improved fallow technologies among selected cotton farmers in Zambia
… improved fallows. The use of improved fallows on cash crops other than the staple maize has rarely been investigated. In order to increase the relevance of fallows, the adoption and impact of the technology on some cash crops widely grown within the agro-ecological systems of Zambia, where the …
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The Evolution of Gentility in Eighteenth-Century England and Colonial Virginia
… established an economy based on production of cash crops and thus adapted better to a commercial economy. The work addresses the development of class-consciousness in England and the origins of Virginia's landed class.
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The failure of early Bermuda, 1612-1630
… for the colonists to produce high quality cash crops. Little research has been conducted on the early history of Bermuda, and the little that has been done has focused on political events within the colony and colonizing company. This work uses letters, petitions, contemporary accounts, and …
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To Mix or Not to Mix: Performance and Management of Diverse Cover Crop Mixtures
Cover crops (CC) are planted in between cash crops to improve soil quality and to supply nitrogen (N) to cash crops through biological N fixation or soil N scavenging. Most producers use single species CC, in part because potential benefits of using mixtures of three or more CC species are poorly …
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"I Have Told You about the Cane and Garden": White Women, Cultivation, and Southern Society in Central Louisiana, 1852-1874
… in the lucrative market for cotton and other cash crops, a market that also tied their household to plantation economies elsewhere in the transatlantic world.
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Differential moisture sensitivity in the life cycle of selected vegetable crop
… In an area like Saskatchewan, the production of crops important to the horticulturist can be expected to attain significant economic importance only with the use of supplementary water. The forthcoming opening of tens of thousands of acres of irrigable land in the South Saskatchewan and other dam …
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Women Empowerment Through Improved Revolving Fund Scheme MMWASOVI) : The Case of Songea Rural District
… production. On the other side marketing of cash crops is the responsibility of men. Women often lack proper access to land and to capital, due to lack of awareness to their rights, they do not manage to get those rights .This situation expose them to vulnerability within the society. During …
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A Measurement of Conservation Agriculture’s Effect on Nitrogen and Carbon Mineralization Rates for Agricultural Recommendations in Haiti’s Central Plateau
… is limited, these farmers are known to adopt new crops and practices if benefits that outweigh risks are demonstrated. Cover crops that help provide soil cover and increase nutrient mineralization are one of the most potentially beneficial changes that could be made on most smallholder farms. …
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Transmigration and its centre-regional context : the case of Riau and South Kalimantan Provinces, Indonesia
… the existing settlements and bolstering the cash-crops scheme. The spontaneous transmigration scheme, which became government rhetoric during the previous period, seems also to be receiving serious attention by the government. Yet, as the prevailing economic and political structure of the …
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Transmigration and its centre-regional context : the case of Riau and South Kalimantan Provinces, Indonesia
… the existing settlements and bolstering the cash-crops scheme. The spontaneous transmigration scheme, which became government rhetoric during the previous period, seems also to be receiving serious attention by the government. Yet, as the prevailing economic and political structure of the …
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Perimeter Cropping As a Means of Reducing Insect Injury and Increasing Crop Yield
… insect known to injure a broad range of cucurbit crops. Many studies have focused on insecticide management of this insect in squash (<em>Cucurbita</em>) and pumpkin (<em>Cucurbita pepo</em> Linnaeus) production; however, little work has been documented on organic approaches to reduce or eliminate …
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Positive Contribution of Saving and Credit Cooperatives in the Development of Rombo District: a Case Study of Mashati SACCOS
… marketing cooperatives they dealt with cash crops mainly coffee which were important to generate revenue to the colonial government through taxation
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Conservation biological control in a multi-strata agroforestry system
… valuable service in fruits and nuts, the main cash crops in polyculture agroforestry systems. To understand how diverse agroforestry’s unique traits would affect pest control, I evaluated the response of arthropod pest and natural enemy guilds to variations in shrub layer composition and alley …
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A policy for the stimulated development of the Transkei
… to be ideally suitable for the production of cash crops such as coffee, cotton, sugar, tea and fibre. The rest of the Transkei is suitable for mixed farming. There is thus a possibility of processing various products, i.e. an industrial potential. The problem in the Transkei is defined as …
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Sustainable agricultural management : a systems approach for examining food security tradeoffs
… for increasing food-crop production and cash-crop revenue, while maintaining sustainability constraints that limit cropland expansion and prevent groundwater depletion. We apply the framework in India's Krishna river basin and find that reallocating resources to meet or exceed current …
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The impact of the CLUSA credit programme on its members in chief Moono's area of Mumbwa District
… loans to farmers to grow various types of crops. The researcher collected primary data through a questionnaire administered to CLUSA group members and in-depth interviews to key informants. The information collected was on whether the respondents benefited from the programme, problems faced …
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The impact of the CLUSA credit programme on its members in chief Moono's area of Mumbwa District
… loans to farmers to grow various types of crops. The researcher collected primary data through a questionnaire administered to CLUSA group members and in-depth interviews to key informants. The information collected was on whether the respondents benefited from the programme, problems faced …
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