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Despite favourable ecological and economic results, many developing countries have not yet adopted an integrated pesticide management (IPM). Given rising marginal costs and diminishing marginal benefits from IPM technology transfer, an optimal control framework is used to identify optimal rates...
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According to research by Tennessen, PonTell, Romine and Motheral (1997), the Extension System has been educating the … nation for over 96 years, and the idea of using technology as a medium for education has been in the minds of Extension … educators for over 40 years. The National E-Extension (eXtension) Initiative is being adopted at a rapid pace, and the history …
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Matching grant programs administered to agricultural groups and cooperatives have emerged as a means of helping smallholder farmers to commercialize in Nepal. These programs help farmers to access information on new technologies, overcome barriers to productive investment, and connect with...
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The Russian import ban on Western food products has stimulated a discussion about whether and how countries in Central Asia and Caucasus might benefit from this political decision by expanding their agrifood exports to Russia. Given this background, our study compares farmers’ willingness to...
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This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on …
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