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Adoption Scale Analysis of Improved Cocoyam Production, Production and Storage Technologies across Gender in Enugu North Agricultural Zone of Enugu State Nigeria

Okoye, B.C; Okoye, A.C; Dimelu, M.U; Agbaeze, C.C; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This study was undertaken to determine the adoption of improved cocoyam production, processing and storage technologies … among small-holder cocoyam farmers in Enugu-North Agricultural Zone in Enugu state. A multi-stage random sampling technique … was used to select 120 cocoyam farmers disaggregated into 60 males and 60 female in 2008. Adoption scale analysis was …

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Understanding the Fodder Markets for Sustainable Development of Livestock Sector in Bihar-A Rapid Appraisal Approach

Singh, K.M.; Singh, R.K.P.; Jha, A.K.; Kumar, Anjani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Livestock is an integral part of rural economy in Bihar and fodder is a critical input for livestock development. Data shows that there exist a huge gap between demand and supply of fodder (both dry as well as green). Most part of the south Bihar comprising of agro climatic zones, IIIA and IIIB...

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Lentil in India: An Overview

Singh, K.M.; Singh, A. K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Traditionally pulses have been considered important elements of cropping systems in the Indo-Gangetic Plains. They were popular because of their importance as a source of protein and ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen (N) and thus improve soil fertility. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a...

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Development of the cattle raising sector on the long term from the perspective of trade with live animals

Grodea, Mariana - 2018

In the period 2003-2017, Romania's exports of live cattle significantly increased, both in the intraCommunity area (twice) and mainly in the extra-Community area (9 times). The import from the intra-Community area, mainly consisting of reproduction animals doubled in the period 2007-2017, as...

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The efficiency of the Romanian horticultural sector in comparisons with other EU countries

Alboiu, Cornelia - 2019

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the competitiveness of the Romanian horticultural sector in terms of production efficiency, using a few specific indicators such as land productivity, labour productivity, and share of costs in production. These indicators have been calculated on the basis...

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Family farm: Solution for sustainable development of rural area

Dumitru, Eduard Alexandru; Petre, Laurenţiu Ionuţ - 2021

At present, in Romania there is no clear definition of the concept of family farm, and at the level of the European Union, the definition of family farms differs significantly depending on the characteristics of each country. At the same time, there is no classification of these types of farms,...

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Influence of coupled support on livestock farming sector development in Romania

Grodea, Mariana - 2021

Coupled support is one of the main payment schemes in the category "direct payments", introduced at EU level in the year 2015, funded from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF). In the EU-28, the highest share of coupled support payments in the year 2019 went to the livestock farming...

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Female and Male Calories Across the 19th and Early 20th Century Distributions Using Quantile Regression

Carson, Scott A. - 2022

Alternative measures for material conditions are frequently used to evaluate economic welfare during development. The basal metabolic rate and calories are two alternative net nutrition measures that vary by demographics, nativity, residence, and socioeconomic status. During the 19th and early...

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Nineteenth and Early 20th Century Physical Activity and Calories by Gender and Race

Carson, Scott Alan - 2022

When traditional measures for income and wealth are scarce or unreliable, alternative values are effective in measuring nutritional conditions during economic development. This study uses net nutrition and calories to illustrate that during the 19th and early 20th centuries that men required...

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Milk processing and collection in Romania: An analysis across regions

Grodea, Mariana - 2016

The excessive farm fragmentation and the permanent decrease of dairy cow herds resulted in the diminution of the milk quantities delivered to processing from 1.8 million tons (43.4%) in 1990 to 1.1 million tons in 2014 (24.3%). The results of the analysis reveal that the milk collection centers...

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