IOSR-JAVS   Volume-12 ~ Issue-5 ~ MAY-2019

ABSTRACT: This study explores the fishing gears used by different communities in South Western Assam including Goalpara, Kamrupand Kamrup Metro districts of Assam, India.Eleven communities living in the area have been found to be involved in fishing. Out of them,Assamese speaking Kaibarta, Bengali speaking Kaibarta, Karbiand riparian Muslim communities are involved in commercial fishing in inland waterbodies and rest fish for household consumption. Twenty-seven different types of traditional fishing gears have been recorded during the study that are used in different types of water bodies including – rivers, hill streams, beels, swamps, marshy areas, water logged fields and manmade.......

Keywords: Ethnic communities,Fabrication materials, Fishing gears,Modernization, Traditional livelihood

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ABSTRACT: The measuring of technical efficiency for cotton farms can be invaluable in estimating optimum farming practices and in identifying premeditated options for the farmers. Therefore, this paper investigates the technical efficiency of sampled cotton farmers in Northeast zone of Nigeria, using a Stochastic frontier production function (SFA), constant returns to scale (CRS) and variable returns to scale (VRS) of output-oriented Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Data were obtained from 349 cotton farmers using a structured questionnaire interviews. The estimates of technical efficiency based on these two aforementioned frontier methods were compared. While efficiency.......

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ABSTRACT: The research aims to determine the effective environmental factors in planning program in diffusion of Agricultural technologies that provided by ministry of agriculture and describing classification of using standers from the point of view of specialists, academics, and Workers in the Agriculture College in Baghdad and other Agricultural Research Services. Data were collected from a random sample of 30 specialists in the production, diffusion and adoption of agricultural technologies. A questionnaire was prepared for this purpose consisting of three parts and the reality of the..........

Keyword: environmental, planning, diffusion, Innovation

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ABSTRACT: This paper estimates the technical efficiency of rice farms in Kebbi State utilizing Data Envelopment Analysis and Tobit regression. Primary data were collected using structured questionnaires from a sample of 231 rice producers surveyed in 2016 production season. The finding reveals that the mean technical efficiency estimates was 65.6 percent. This implies that 34.4 percent of potential output is lost due to technical inefficiency. The average input slacks for seeds, fertilizer, agrochemicals and labour were found to be 0.103, 0.838, 0.071 and 0.170 individually. This implies excess used of these inputs by their respective quantities. The output slack was found to be zero, meaning that no excess output was recorded. Education, extension contact and planting technology were the factors that significantly decreased the technical inefficiency of the farmers in the research area. The study concluded that most of the rice farmers in the investigation area are producing below the best possible output and have the opportunity to increase their output by 34.4 percent simply by using the technology of the best practice farm..........

Keywords: Technical efficiency, DEA, Tobit regression, Input and output slacks

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