In 2006, after Wang and his colleagues had sown the seeds, their field management techniques and large-scale farming equipment could not adapt to the operating environment, and hundreds of hectares of rice fields were almost completely encroached by weeds....
Côte d’Ivoire (CIV), Egypt (EGY), Ethiopia (ETH), Ghana (GHA), Kenya (KEN), Madagascar (MDG), Mali (MLI), Niger (NER), Nigeria (NGA), Rwanda (RWA), Senegal (SEN), Tanzania (TZA), Uganda (UGA), and Zambia (ZMB). The graph ...
This is where an innovative public–private partnership is desirable to support the intensification of rice farming. Rice is cultivated in four ecosystems of SSA: dryland (38% of the cultivated rice area), rainfed wetland (33%), deepwater and mangrove swamps (9%), and irrigated wetland (20%...
The detection of multiple fertilizers and pesticides in groundwater underscores the need for legislative measures and the promotion of sustainable farming practices similar to European Union strategies. Lastly, emphasis should be placed on fostering shifts in farmers’ perceptions toward optimizing input ...
In the investigated areas, most irrigated soils nearly touched the boarder limit of As contamination as well as loaded 5 times greater As than reference soil which could be an emerging problems for future farming. As load might happen due to the use of As contaminated water and As-enriched ...
Panel 1.2 in Table 1 shows the macro-provincial level characteristics of Sisaket and Buriram. These provinces have many similar macro characteristics4 such as per capita income, road length, the number of rice farming households, average rice farm size, Jasmine rice production, and rice milling ...
Ting Zhong1,2, Janice E. Thies3 & Weixiang Wu1,2 Elevated global temperatures and increased concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere associated with climate change will exert profound effects on rice cropping systems, particularly on their greenhouse gas emitting potential....
"The land, climate and rice farming methods in Nigeria are very different from those in China. We had a lot of problems at the beginning," said the 51-year-old who has been in Nigeria for 16 years. In 2006, after Wang and his colleagues had sown the seeds, their field management tec...
Moreover, years of education, experience in rice farming, farm size, number of rice plots, dependency ratio, and distance to market were found to negatively influence the control of production resources among both male and female participants in rice-breeding activities. From both the quantitative ...
For instance, a farming experience in a household could favor or hinder women’s participation and the same goes for religion and skills training. In the conceptual framework presented in Figure 3, women participating in rice production is viewed as an important input in production that is ...