A better understanding of the development of part-time farming in China would be invaluable both for academic inquiry and policy formulation. This study, using farm-level survey data, examines the development of part-time farming in China. The two key questions examined are (1) how part-time ...
摘要: Part-time Farming Households and the Change in the Structure of Farm Productive Power KAWAI Kazushige Bulletin of the Institute for Agricultural Research, Tohoku University 35(1), 1-24, 1983关键词: japan / farm structure productivite des terres land use land productivity agriculture a temps...
Backyardpoultry farmingis considered as an integral part of livelihood for many rural families throughout the world. In Ethiopia (Africa), chicken constitutes the largest share among the farm animal species (Mammo et al., 2008) and 99% of the chicken population is maintained under a scavenging ...
The study assessed the impact of modern farming technologies on the productivity and food security in the rice terraces. The study covered four rice terraces clusters located in four provinces in the Cordillera region in the northern central part of the Philippines. The sites covered were: Haliap...
(2006a) showed that competition for 15N absorption between wheat and cotton root, and the translocation of absorbed 15N from wheat root to cotton occurred in the wheat–cotton double-cropping system and the 15N absorbed by cotton root was mostly allocated to the aboveground part, and less to ...
3). A follow-up ANOVA with food type as the factor and ln 12-month growth rate as the dependent variable confirmed that the different food types provided as part of our experimental trials (Table S1) did not significantly influence growth rates in Burmese pythons (although this difference was...
The young team has overcome unimaginable difficulties to conduct research on the plateau. For Zhao, the hardest part was purchasing yaks and sheep for the research. "For the purpose of research, we only accepted yaks weighing 145 kg to 155 kg. So we had to choose ideal cattle door to door...
The first part of this review deals with the historical background and development of organic and conventional farming. The second part aims to present the rather scattered literature on the different findings between the two practices in terms of soil erosion, adoption, energy usage, gas emission...
The low adoption of precision farming (PF) technologies in developing countries can be explained by a variety of reasons, i.e., a lack of knowledge on the part of the farmers, lack of financial means to make the initial investments, and lack of economic viability of the investments due to...
Therewasaninitial positive response toagriculture onthepartof manyreserve residents which has been overlooked in the literature to date. There were also manydifficulties. Some of these problems werethose experienced by allearlysettlers - drought,Dost,hail,and prairiefire, an absence of markets, and ...