ProductionpatternInfluencingfactorsSince the founding of new China,the maize production pattern took on characteristic of " northern expansion and western movement" : there were great changes in ranking of main producing provinces; southern planting area gradually shrank,while central and northern planting...
FACTORS of productionWATER managementSHIFTING cultivationThough the production of maize and the area under cultivation has accelerated, the rate of increase in production is not satisfactory due to its increasing demand with the continuous expansion of the dairy and poultry secto...
Logistic regression is employed to analyse the factors which influence the decision of whether or not the respondent used forward pricing methods during the 2004/05 maize production season. Forward pricing methods include cash forward contracting and hedging with futures contracts and/or options, ...
Contribution of different factors responsible for the increase of Maize production viz: weeds control, insect/pest control and fertilizer were determined in Kharif, 1996 and 1 997 under the agro-climatic conditions of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. The investigations measured the average maximum yield ...
Empirical measures of maize prices, maize production, farm size, "other inputs" costs, cost of hired labor, cost of hiring machine services and unpaid fam ily labor were variables included in the specified model. Furthermore, 51.59% of the farmers operated farm land within the range of 0.10...
Effect of temperature and solar ecological factors on spring maize production DAI Ming-hong 12SHAN Cheng-gang 3WANG Pu 1* 1.College of Agronomy and Biotechnology;China Agricultural University;Beijing 100193;China; 2.Institute of Corn;Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry;Beijing 100097; ...
South-central Nebraska is one of the most extensively irrigated areas in the U.S., with over 65,000 active irrigation wells, and maize is the major agronomical crop produced. Maize production in this region requires supplementary irrigation for maximum productivity. Effective on-farm implementation ...
The maize kernel structure, the production system, and the climatic condition's during the maize growing season influence kernel hardness and brittleness or breakage susceptibility causing differences in the amount of breakage present. During artificial grain drying, high temperatures on t...
SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF MAIZE PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY ON FARMERS' WELFARE IN SOUTHWEST, NIGERIA The study revealed that Internal Rate of Returns (IRR) of 62 % was estimated from investment made into maize technology, which are added values to the use ... OL Omobolanle,ES Olu,DA Gabr...
Predicting the impact of temperature change on the future distribution of maize stem borers and their natural enemies along east african mountain gradients using phenology models PloS One, 10 (6) (2015), Article e0130427, 10.1371/journal.pone.0130427 Google Scholar Nagar and Shenkar, 2016 L.R. ...