Small dairy farms in Costa Rica are the most common; nonetheless milk and dairy industrialization is owned by few companies with large market power. The imminent entry to a free market, due to the Free Trade Agreement with United States, dairy imports are expected to increase in the upcoming years.
A field experiment entitled "Performance of nitrogen and zinc levels on growth, yield, quality and economics of fodder pearl millet under Dry land condition” was conducted during kharif season of 2015-16 at the farm Of Agronomy in Bhagwant University, Ajmer (Rajasthan). The soil of experimental plot was sandy loam in texture, slightly alkaline in reaction, low in organic carbon and in available nitrogen and low in available phosphorus but having fairly rich status of available potassium.
In spite of strategies that has been put in place to achieve the 5th millennium goal of improving maternal health, maternal malnutrition continues to be a global problem. Women in poor rural communities often consume diets deficient in energy and therefore many other nutrients..
Twenty five genotypes of dahlia were used to study the genetic variability, heritability, genetic advance and correlation for growth and yield contributing characters under Mudigere condition. Significant variations were observed for all twenty different characters studied. The study indicated that the moderate to high genotypic coefficient of variation (GCV) and phenotypic coefficient of variation (PCV) were observed for all the characters (more than 20 % value for both GCV and PCV).
Farmers in Savelugu-Nanton district are peasant in nature, only few are into smallholder farming for sales with the support of Non-Government Organisation Masara N’Arziki. The company gives input credit support to smallholder farmer and in return buy their produced. This study assessed factors that influence access to the project and the challenges participants in the project encountered using probit regression model and Kendall`s W. 195 smallholder farmers were selected comprising of 118 participants and 77 non-participants.
The problem of unemployment has remained intractable even in developed economies of the world. Unemployment is one of the social problems in Nigeria which has assumed a greater dimension. The Nigeria unemployment rate was recorded at 12.1% in the first quarter of 2016, translating into 20.57million.
A study was carried out in Erode, a tier-II city of Tamil Nadu with the objective to study the social and educational background of the respondents. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted to select 120 household respondents. Relevant data were collected through personal interview with the help of a pilot-tested interview schedule. An ex-post facto research design was adopted to find out the results. Socio-economic background of the respondents of Erode City showed that nearly 50 per of the respondents were in the age group of 30-50 and 82.5 per cent of the respondents were female.
More food needs to be produced on soils located near consumer markets globally. This mandate requires innovative hydropedologic technology that produces more food with less water. Since most of the farmland is currently under production or has been badly eroded, more of the 26% land area occupied by highly permeable sand soils needs to be converted to sustainable agricultural production. Opportunities for reducing groundwater pollution in sands require additional exploration of innovative hydropedological mechanisms improving the retention of gravitational water in the root zone.
Trans fatty acids, are a form of unsaturated fats having at least one double bond in their chemical structure. Trans fats (artificial) are now notorious as the worst fat in the food industry. Trans fats get generated when oils are only partially hydrogenated to generate semi-solid oils. This change may seem small, but it totally changes the fat's physical properties. Hydrogenation increases the shelf life, texture and flavour stability of foods.
Plum (Prunus domestica L.) is one of the most important export crops in Palestine and climate effects on plum yield and prediction of yield in commercial plum production were studied. Palestine is the leading fresh and dried plum producer all over the world. We analyzed the mean annual temperature and precipitation using data from tenth weathers stations from the Palestine Meteorological Department, recorded in the period from 1993-2008 (15 years), with the same years plant production (rainfed) from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS).