aIn Heilongjiang province agricultural machinery purchase subsidy amount used in modern agricultural machinery cooperatives Figure 在用于现代农业机械合作社形象的黑龙江省农业机械购买补贴数额[translate]
Get out of the office and go to the farm! Go meet with farmers. I do it every chance I can, and I always learn something. Which reminds me of an important lesson: ag is local. Every county has a different set of soils and weather and crops and markets. You can't develop effective...
As part of its ongoing efforts, in 2011, LVC orchestrated an exchange of 76 young Haitian farmers to Brazil where they spent a full year learning about agro-ecology, soil and water conservation, social movement, organization, and farm cooperatives [98]. This type of agricultural training ...
Keywords: cooperatives; sustainability; member heterogeneity; fundamental and symptomatic solutions; relative and absolute scarcity 1. Introduction The celebrated success of cooperatives in many countries around the world during the last 100–150 years has been accompanied by major challenges caused by ...
Agricultural cooperatives are well known worldwide as very important institutional commitments used to counterbalance the pressures faced by small farmers in developing countries [37], but they are also used for the good management of the achievement of an effective or high-performing agriculture sector...
The highest level of crop diversity is achieved by cooperatives as a legal structure of agricultural Sustainability 2019, 11, 1416 12 of 14 holdings that are both traditional and typical in Slovakia. Individual farmers as ordinary people doing business in agriculture are more diversified than ...
Moreover, the period of socialism taught landowners that the land had to be cultivated only in agricultural cooperatives and state enterprises to benefit society. Still, private land ownership did not bring them any benefit, and land ownership was only a burden. After the year 2000, Slovakia ...
We find 14 studies where farm size is a significant determinant (10 non-significant), showing mostly a positive influence on decision to participate in AESs [93,96,97,105,108], to participate in cooperatives [117], impacting pesticides use and pest management [50,51], and the willingness ...
In other areas, productive grasslands are managed by cooperatives of local farmers, which were re-established af- ter the communist era at the end of the 20th century. The cooperatives have no interest, however, in managing the hardly accessible grasslands, especially hay meadows. The cooperatives...
PtE initiative enables farmers save time and money since they do not involve in further pruning handling and management activities (e.g., avoiding mulching and/or burning of pruning in open air); and the PtE initiative also enables pruning biomass traders and cooperatives to create new business ...