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Three-Year Cereal: Field Bean Intercropping Greatly Reduced Weed Abundance with Small Changes in Functional Composition. [PDF]

Biology (Basel)
Arduini I, Esnarriaga DN, Mariotti M, Saia S, Angeletti FGS, Pampana S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Farmers' Financial Literacy—Scale Development and Linkages to Accounting Practices and Financial Outcomes

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the financial literacy (FL) of Swedish farmers, its linkages to farmer characteristics, management accounting practices and farm outcomes by surveying Swedish Farm Accountancy Data Network farmers. Using item response theory, we expand the existing FL measurement specifically to the farming context, assess measurement ...
Uliana Gottlieb, Helena Hansson
wiley   +1 more source

Fertilizer type and intercropping influence the metabolic and nutritional profiles of borage and peanut. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Salari F, Khalesro S, Heidari G, Zareei S.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change Mitigation in the Dairy Sector: Uncovering Heterogeneity Through Eco‐Efficiency Clubs

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Combining climate change goals with economic targets is crucial for the dairy sector, which is a significant contributor to agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide. In this paper, we assess economic and climate change implications of dairy production with panel data of Irish dairy farms from 2013 to 2021.
Doris Läpple, Christian Stetter, Cathal Buckley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simulation of resources use and abiotic stress management in various maize-based cropping systems. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Hussain K, Hilger T, Hakki EE, Ilyas A, Gezgin S, Wongleecharoen C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Yield stability in barley-wheat mixed cropping in Central Highlands of Eritrea

, 2008
Yield data of a large set of experiments with barley and wheat were analysed in order to assess whether yield stability was greater in mixed cropping than in sole cropping, and to identify which varietal mixture showed most stable grain yields.
Sharma, J.K., Woldeamlak, A., Struik, P.C.   +2 more
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Short-term crop rotation interactive effects on soil microbial communities and potato yield under field conditions. [PDF]

Front Microbiol
Chiuta NE, Pofu KM, Mashela PW.
europepmc   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source