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The study used programming methods to assess the farm-level impact of incorporating forages, including dual purpose … interventions and therefore the change in net revenue were obtained. The intervention was to grow forages as part of the crop …
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Irrigated agriculture commercialization is a necessary step towards realizing Nigeria’s goal of poverty reduction and rural development. Commercial irrigation farming in this paper is taken to mean producing above subsistence and utilizing farm resources efficiently. This paper is a case study...
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funds to achieve the greatest return on the investment from soil erosion and sediment reduction strategies. How can … cost-effective conservation to occur. Considering these factors and targeting BMP implementation from 8 to 23 times more …
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soil conservation technology based on an assessment of the farmers’ risk and corresponding discount rates in the …
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demands for soil phosphorus and sulfur increase. Major outcomes of the research were a better understanding of the nutrient … dynamics in South-East Asia and the development of a new and more reliable soil test for available sulfur. The new test (KCl-40 … soil tests conducted for growers in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, although its significance as far …
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The on-farm conservation and management of native grasslands, especially those that are botanically diverse or support … which may be requnred to nchieve desired conservation outcomes ate also discussed. Some suggestions are made For relevant …
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impact of the development of agriculture on wild biodiversity is assessed because some environmentalists see the conservation … conservationist groups. Some see intensive agriculture (including silviculture) as favourable to the conservation of wild biodiversity … whereas others oppose such production methods as being unfavourable to wild biodiversity conservation. Reasons why modern …
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The paper examines the joint adoption of conservation tillage, crop rotations, and soil testing by small and limited …-resource farmers in the Southeast. The objectives are to determine the potential eligibility of small farmers for the Conservation … conservation practices. Results indicate that conservation management, ethnicity, and farm characteristics affect practice adoption …
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The adoption of conservation practices is a complex matter – rural landholders consider a wide variety of factors and … characteristics when deciding whether to adopt a conservation practice. To confound the issue, recent research has suggested that the … goals of landholders affect the adoption of conservation practices by creating a subjective consideration of the relative …
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