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Descriptive Analysis of the Economic and Social Factors of Cucumber Farmers in Baghdad Governorate (Adopting and Non-Adopting Sub-Surface Irrigation Techniques)
The objective of this study was to identify the economic and social characteristics of cucumber farmers in the study area. The random sample included farmers from Abu Ghraib district and Yusufiya, Baghdad governorate, which ...
Returns to agricultural mechanization in Egypt: Lessons learned from innovation driven research
In light of both historical and contemporary (political) sensitivity on civil society movements, we chalk out a normative role for the Egyptian private sector, within contemporary systems of agricultural innovation, and ...
Démarche innovante pour la création d’une chaîne de valeur "Agneau Barbarin de Sidi-Bouzid"
Le développement de l'élevage ovin à viande a été basé principalement sur certains maillons de la filière plutôt que sur une approche de système de production intégré. En dépit, des efforts déployés pour améliorer ce ...
Growth in Total Factor Productivity in the Egyptian Agriculture Sector: Growth Accounting and Econometric Assessments of Sources of Growth
This research aims to assess the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of the whole agricultural sector in Egypt for the period 1961-2012 using Törnqvist index calculations. Particularly, it aims to investigate: (1) the most ...
Impacts of Irrigation on Agricultural Productivity in Egypt
This paper investigates the impacts of the main primary production factors (e.g. seed, nitrogen, phosphorus, etc.), on the total production of the main crops produced in Egypt (cotton, berseem, maize, rice and wheat), with ...
تحليل اقتصادي لتبني تقنية الري بالتنقيط تحت السطحي في العراق
هدفت هذه الدراسة الى التعرف على العوامل المؤثرة في تبني تقنية الري تحت السطحي والتنبؤ بالمدة الزمنية التي تتطلبها التقنية للانتشار على مدى واسع من المزارعين، وذلك عند تطبيق هذه التقنية على مجموعة من مزارعي محصول الخيار في ...
Adoption and Factors Affecting Farmer’s Adoption of Technologies in Farming System: A Case Study of Improved Technologies in ICARDA’s Arabian Peninsula Regional Program
The main objective of this study is to assess the rate of adoption of innovations introduced by the Arabian
Peninsula Regional Program (APRP) of ICARDA and identify main constraints that limit the adoption process of
these ...
Salinity Impacts on Environmental Efficiency of Wheat farms in Central of Iraq
A stochastic frontier approach is used for analyzing of the environmental impacts of soil salinity in Iraq. An econometric method based on the neoclassical production theory (stochastic frontier analysis) is transformed ...
Income, Education and Age effects on Meat and Fish Demand in Tunisia
Socio-economic and demographic variables can have a deep impact of the demand for food. The objective of this work is to analyze how these variables can affect the demand for meat and fish for Tunisian consumers. This study ...
Good intensions and hard realities: Achievements and challenges in agricultural extension systems in Tunisia
The purpose set for this study was to assess the proficiency of the agricultural extension in Tunisia based on
secondary information and interactions with key stakeholders involved in the extension information chain. ...