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Sources of Information on Climate Change among Arable Crop Farmers, Edo State, Nigeria

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management
The study assessed the sources of information on climate change among arable crop farmers in Edo state, Nigeria using appropriate standard methods. Result revealed that, 42.4% of the respondents were below the mean age (45 years). Majority of them (58.8%
S. O. Alakpa, V. E. Ogbe
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Farm Labour Preferences among Small-scale Arable Crop Farmers in Akwa Ibom State, Southern Nigeria

Muş Alparslan University Journal of Agriculture and Nature, 2023
Human labour is critical in the survival and sustainability of the small-scale farm production system in developing countries. Following the imperfection in the rural labour market and the mounting rural poverty, labour demand among resource-poor small ...
Sunday Brownson Akpan, V. S. Nkanta, E. Udoh   +2 more
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Investigation of the perception of climate change among arable crop farmers in Akinyele Local Government area of Oyo State, Nigeria

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2021
This study was designed to investigate the perception of climate change among arable crop farmers in Akinyele local government area of Oyo state, Nigeria using a well-structured questionnaire for data acquisition. Descriptive and inferential (chi-square)
O.G. Ogunwale, O.O. Abegunrin, B.H. Ugege, A.A. Tunde-Francis, O.O. Oyewole   +4 more
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Assessment of Effects of Land Degradation on Productivity of Arable Crop Farmers in Selected Local Government Areas of Ogun State, Nigeria

Sri Lankan journal of agriculture and ecosystems, 2022
The study assessed the farmers’ level of awareness of land degradation (LD), determinant of LD, effect of LD on total factor productivity and, the mitigating measures adopted against LD. The study employed cross-sectional research design.
A. Ojo, M. Ojo, Y. Ajani, A. Oseghale, A. Busari   +4 more
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Technologies Needs of Arable Crop Farmers of Oyo and Ekiti States of South-Western, Nigeria

International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Rural Development Studies, 2022
In ensuring food production in the face of food insecurity, appropriate production technologies are inevitable. This study therefore investigated the technologies needed by arable crop farmers of Oyo and Ekiti States in South-western Nigeria.
J. Akintonde, A. Ajayi, M. Dlamini, M. M. Dlamini   +3 more
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Effectiveness of use of information and communication technologies (icts) by extension agents and arable crop farmers in ido loal government area, oyo state, nigeria

Global Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2022
The study was undertaken to ascertain effectiveness of use of ICTs by extension agents and arable crop farmers in Ido local government area Oyo State. Multiple stage sampling procedure was used to select 105 respondents for the study. Data were collected
O. O. O.,, O. O C, O. J O, T. A. A.,, Olawale, O. O.,, Ogunlana, E. A.,   +5 more
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Integrated pest management portfolios in UK arable farming: results of a farmer survey. [PDF]

, 2009
Farmers are faced with a wide range of pest management (PM) options that can be adopted in isolation or alongside complementary or substitute strategies.
Batra, Chandler, Cowen, Devonshire, Fonseca, Franks, Griffiths, Hoy, Kogan, Lewis, Lohr, McCaffery, Stiling, Thomas, Trumper, Waage   +15 more
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A method to search for optimal field allocations of transgenic maize in the context of co-existence [PDF]

, 2008
Spatially isolating genetically modified (GM) maize fields from non-GM maize fields is a robust on-farm measure to keep the adventitious presence of GM material in the harvest of neighboring fields due to cross-fertilizations below the European ...
Cougnon, Mathias, Devos, Yann, Reheul, Dirk, Thas, Olivier   +3 more
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SOCIOECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF LIVELIHOOD DIVERSIFICATION AMONG ARABLE CROP FARMERS IN SHENDAM, PLATEAU STATE, NIGERIA

Agricultural Socio-Economics Journal, 2022
Livelihood diversification is an integral component of household income. Diversification determinants were estimated. Multistage sampling was adopted, and primary data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Logit regression. Socioeconomic factors
G. Onuwa, S. Mailumo, C. Chizea, C. Alamanjo   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Farmer perceptions of bird damage and control in arable crops

New Zealand Plant Protection, 2001
One hundred arable farmers from across New Zealand were randomly selected and interviewed in summer 2000 to assess their perceptions of the nature and extent of bird damage to their crops the bird species involved the factors affecting the level of damage and the type and cost of any bird control undertaken Most farmers considered birds caused serious ...
J. Coleman, E.B. Spurr
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