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An ongoing debate about the integration of farmers' empirical knowledge in agricultural development was sought to be answered by studying soil fertility management strategies in the Jos Plateau of Nigeria.... hey argued that scientists should pay closer attention to farmers' knowledge systems
An ongoing debate about the integration of farmers' empirical knowledge in agricultural development was sought to be answered by studying soil fertility management strategies in the Jos Plateau of Nigeria....
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Assignment
The author of this essay "Marketing Infrastructure & agricultural Marketing Reforms" comments on the agricultural sector of India.... Thus managing these farmers and providing support services is what led to forming agricultural cooperatives in India.... Around 28 percent of the total cooperatives are the agricultural cooperatives with 137 million memberships dealing directly or indirectly with the agricultural sector (Ramesha, 2003)....
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Essay
Two of the more interesting theories have to do with climate change, put forward here by peter Richerson et al, and “competitive feasting” as explained by Brian Hayden, who suggests that the surplus of food encouraged social adaptation that encouraged the continued development of further agriculture and domesticity.... The former, at least according to Richerson and his colleagues, consisted of a sense of competition between Holocene societies which in effect made the development of agriculture during this period all but “compulsory” (Richerson 387)....
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ccording to the Oasis hypothesis which was popularized in 1908 by Raphael Pumpelly and Vere Gordon Childe in their book titled Man Makes Himself, the hypothesis states that as the climate became drier, many societies contracted to water points where they became shaped into close relationship with wild animals which were later reared together with other useful crops.... According to most suggestions, there must have been an unexpected change from gatherer-hunter to agricultural communities after a time during which particular crops may have been intentionally planted to mitigate for shortages of game as well as other food crops acquired in the wild at that time (Vasey 2002,p....
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Essay
This will help eliminate these adverse effects of agricultural pollution.... During the 18th C and 19th C, where there were revolutions in industrialization, famers still largely depended on natural resources for crop and livestock production (“Agriculture… agricultural pollution poses a lot of health complications to human life.... These harmful substances contaminate drinking water sources upon entering the underground water which is the major cause of ‘blue babies syndrome' (“Life of Earth”, 2013), agricultural POLLUTION agricultural pollution Thesis ment agricultural pollution is caused by farming practices to meet the high demand of the basic need, food....
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Research Paper
hellip; This research will begin with the statement that ethics is concerned about choices and agricultural ethics refers to the choices for those people engaged in agriculture who can either be direct as farmers or indirectly as government regulators, researchers, extension agents, industrial workers, CEOs, lawmakers, consumers and technology developers.... This is evident in the manner in which the farmers are complaining of economic difficulties in the country....
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Research Paper
On the legal aspect of agricultural labour, more than 48% of the workers have no legal authorization to work in the US and only 35% were US residents.... This paper "agricultural Workers' Conditions" focuses on the fact that in any country, agriculture work is vital since it is through the agricultural produces that a government is able to feed the country.... Another area that is poorly managed for the agricultural workers is housing (Grimm 13)....
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Case Study
… agricultural RisksAgriculture is a risky occupation.... The consequences of decisions are often not known with certainty until long after the agricultural RisksAgriculture is a risky occupation.... farmers are confronted on a daily basis with decisions that affect their financial returns and overall welfare.... farmers are confronted on a daily basis with decisions that affect their financial returns and overall welfare....
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