Alley farming was developed as a means of maintaining soil fertility in fields under permanent cultivation in Africa, as population pressure makes the traditional practice of slash-and-burn combined with fallowing unsustainable. It is an agroforestry system under which food crops are grown in...

Free entry and exit from an industry is one of the indicators of competitive behaviour of that industry. It is alleged that exit from Bangladesh's poultry industry is high. Based on a survey of exited firms, nature and causes of exit were analysed and their implications for policy for the...

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Identifying ways to increase market participation by smallholder producers requires identifying variables that influence market access. This is usually achieved using probit estimation. An important phenomenon affecting entry decision-making is the entry decision of a 'similar' household, where...