products sold through supermarkets at higher prices. We model the willingness of farmers to invest in high quality production … farmers regarding their product participation in the retail channel significantly affects their profits. We thus find both a â …

intended beneficiaries were the region`s communal farmers. Instead, virtually all irrigable lands have been sold to large … farmers and land speculators, usually at exceedingly low prices. While political and economic abuses explain some of these … divestitures almost inevitable. With effectively no access to credit, communal farmers had little ability to invest in secondary …

policy intervention. To accomplish this, a household survey of 425 respondents was conducted in 2008. Majority of the farmers … gear (68 %), or overdosed pesticides (27 %). However, majority of those farmers were aware of the risks of pesticide use …

Agri-environmental schemes (AES) have had a limited effect on European agriculture due to farmer’s reluctance to … participate in them. Information on the role that AES design can have on encouraging farmers to participate can be an important … input into the design of such policies. This paper investigates farmers’ preferences for different design options related to …

in Nigeria using cross-sectional data of 600 rice farmers randomly selected from the three major rice ecologies of …. Therefore, the use of seed voucher to grant farmers assess to certified improved rice seed can generate improvement in farmers …

The core of issues concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers is farmer problem, and the key to farmer problem is … the problem of farmers' overall quality. Farmers' cultural quality, technical level and ideological and moral standards … attached great importance to farmers' education and training, and established the training mode with their own characteristics …