August 2012

Round potato (Solanum tuberosum) production in southern highlands of Tanzania: Are smallholder farmers becoming commercial?

The subsistence production is chosen by farmers because it is subjectively the best option. However, subsistence farming on small and fragmented plots risks not reaching even farmers’ own food requirements, let alone producing a surplus. Therefore, it would have been expected that farmers would be commercialising production of profitable food crops. One of the more profitable food crops than many others as studies...

Author(s): Hosea Mpogole, Melchior E. Mlambiti and Reuben M. J. Kadigi

August 2012

Adoption of improved dairy husbandry practices and its relationship with the socio-economic characteristics of dairy farmers in Ada’a district of Oromia State, Ethiopia

This study was conducted to ascertain the extent of adoption of improved dairy husbandry practices and its relationship with the socio-economic characteristics of the dairy farmers in Ada’a district of Oromia State, Ethiopia. It was undertaken in eight purposively selected peasant associations/kebeles of the district from which thirty dairy farmers were selected randomly. The study revealed that the overall extent...

Author(s): Lemma Fita, M. M. Trivedi and Bekele Tassew

August 2012

Cropping system analysis of two agro ecological zones of Southwestern Nigeria

Proper understanding of cropping system within agro ecological zone is needed if adequate agricultural development programme will be planned. Therefore, the study looked into the cropping systems practiced by farmers in Southwestern Nigeria, described the cropping system and crop combination of farmers and also described and compared the socio-economic characteristics of farmers in the agro ecological zones studied....

Author(s): B. J. Amujoyegbe and O. S. Alabi