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Adoption of Recommended Varieties: A Farm level Analysis of Wheat Growers in Irrigated Punjab [PDF]
This study uses farm level data to analyse the determinants of adoption of recommended wheat varieties in irrigated Punjab, Pakistan. A notable proportion of wheat acreage is sown to non-recommended wheat varieties in the province.
Iqbal, Muhammad +2 more
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pesticide use is expanding rapidly across sub‐Saharan Africa, while regulatory oversight and public protection structures remain weak, leaving smallholder farmers exposed to mounting health and environmental risks. In response, agrochemical industry actors have launched ‘safe use’ initiatives that emphasize training and personal protective ...
Elina Andersson +2 more
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Ocean Best Practices Workshop II: Implementation.
, 2018 Presentation at 'Evolving and Sustaining Ocean Best Practices Workshop II, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, Paris, France, 04-06 Dec 2018 ...
Pearlman, Jay
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
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Satire and Silence Under Authoritarian Rule: Cotton and Pesticide Perceptions in Tajikistan
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 70 years, agricultural chemicals have become a mainstay of cotton farming in Central Asia. This growing reliance on agrochemicals has not remained uncontested. This article analyses the politics of pesticides in Soviet and post‐Soviet Tajikistan by examining how, and to what extent, pesticides have featured in graphic satire, an ...
Irna Hofman, Flora Roberts
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New Phytologist, EarlyView.Conceptual framework linking herbicide dose–response to plant fitness outcomes under sublethal exposure. Summary Herbicide drift exposes nontarget plants to sublethal agrochemical doses, yet its ecological and evolutionary consequences remain poorly understood.
Anah Soble Botran +4 more
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Agrochemical use is increasing rapidly among smallholder farmers in the River Niger and Kaduna catchments of north-central Nigeria, yet the knowledge, attitudes, and practices governing their use remain poorly characterised.
Yahaya T +3 more
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Recommended Practices for Spreadsheet Testing [PDF]
, 2007 This paper presents the authors recommended practices for spreadsheet testing. Documented spreadsheet error rates are unacceptable in corporations today. Although improvements are needed throughout the systems development life cycle, credible improvement
Panko, Raymond R.
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DEC Recommended Practices: Family. Knowing Families, Tailoring Practices, Building Capacity
, 2017 The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) Recommended Practices provide guidance to families and professionals about the most effective ways to improve learning outcomes and promote development of young children, birth through age 5, who have, or are at ...
Keilty, Bonnie, Trivette, Carol M.
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Water and Environment Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agrochemical companies face significant challenges in cleaning their equipment due to the high levels of residual pesticide contamination. This study aimed to develop and validate an HPLC‐UV/DAD method for the simultaneous determination of clomazone, diuron and hexazinone in wastewater generated during the cleaning of formulation equipment ...
Elisangela Rosa Ribeiro +3 more
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