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The Impact of Credit and Training on Farmers Efficiency: A Semi‐Parametric Meta‐Frontier Analysis
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers in developing countries face several constraints, which affect their productivity. To reduce these constraints and enhance productivity, government and non‐governmental agencies implement programmes that provide credit and training to farmers.
Anthony Baffoe‐Bonnie +1 more
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Management of trace elements and vitamins in organic ruminant livestock nutrition in the context of the whole farm system [PDF]
, 2008 There is a wealth of information on the vital role of trace minerals in ruminant health. This information gives some reasonable indications of the levels required by dairy and beef animals to maintain good health though there is much less information ...
Tame, Mike
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.A substantial body of anthropological research has investigated how subsistence communities engage with market‐based economies. In this study, we contribute to this body of work by examining adolescent orientations towards intensifying market integration in the Congo Basin.
Sheina Lew‐Levy +12 more
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Quality attributes of fufu: Instrumental and sensory measurement
Scientific African, 2018 Texture is one of the key desirable sensory attributes of fufu, a cassava-based staple of most Ghanaians. Cassava starch and plantain puree were blended in the ratios of 20:80, 25:75, 30:70, 35:65, and 40:60, respectively.
Gifty Serwaa Otoo +3 more
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Animals, 2020 Plantain (Plantago lanceolata) and chicory (Cichorium intybus) are now widely used in combination with clover species to provide greater annual lamb live weight gains than perennial ryegrass and white clover pasture.
Sharini C. Somasiri +4 more
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Present state of the production of Musaceae in Africa, Asia Pacific and the Caribbean [PDF]
, 2008 The world-wide production of bananas and plantains (104 MT in 2006) has generally continued to increase with consumer demand proportional to population increase.
Lescot, Thierry
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Integrated virus and infection risk: does the banana streak virus (bsv) threat the banana culture? [Poster-P242] [PDF]
, 2018 Cultivated bananas mainly stem from intra- and interspecific crosses between two species: Musa acuminata (A genome) and Musa balbisiana (B genome). The B genome harbors viral sequences of Banana streak virus (BSV), inducing the banana streak disease and ...
Hoestachy, Bruno +4 more
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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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, 1963 Many different kinds of plants usually grow in close association with each other in nature. Woodlands, roadsides, mountain slopes, marshlands-almost all places not closely attended by man have their own complex plant associations.
Klebesadel, L.J.
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Plant remains from Middle Bronze Age round houses in north Cork [PDF]
, 2014 .pdf file with report describing analysis of archaeobotanical material from Ballynamona 2 and Mitchelstown 1 in north Cork ...
Johnston, Penny
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