Farmers’ Perception and Adaptation in Organic Vegetable Production for Sustainable Livelihood in Chiang Mai Province

<p class="sar-body"><span lang="EN-US">There are little economic data concerning the profitability of organic vegetable crops in the Southern Coastal Plain, especially in reference to sod-based rotation and tillage alternatives. A three-year experiment was conducted at the North Florida Research and Education Center-Quincy involving a crop rotation sequence of oats and rye (winter), bush beans (spring), soybean (summer) and broccoli (fall). Bush beans and broccoli were the cash crops. This paper presents analyses of the riskiness of organic production utilizing years in bahiagrass prior to initiating the crop rotation sequence and conventional tillage (CT) versus strip tillage (ST). Methods of “Risk-rated enterprise budget” and “Analyses of Variance-Covariance Matrix (ANOVA)” were utilized for determining relative profitability, and coefficient of variation was applied for measuring riskiness of each treatment. Three years of bahiagrass prior to initiating the crop rotation sequence, in combination with conventional tillage, had the highest profitability and ranked as the least risky scenario. The second most profitable treatment was conventional tillage with four years of bahiagrass. Focusing on strip tillage, four years of bahiagrass with strip-tillage ranked third in term of profitability.</span></p>

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TWO NEW RECORDS OF Isomyia paurogonita FANG AND FAN, 1986 AND Sumatria latifrons Malloch, 1926 (DIPTERA: CALLIPHORIDAE) FROM NORTHERN THAILAND, WITH REVISED KEY TO THE SPECIES OF Isomyia

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo ◽

10.1590/s0036-46652014000200015 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 56 (2) ◽

pp. 175-177

Author(s):

Nophawan Bunchu ◽

Kittikhun Moophayak ◽

Sangob Sanit ◽

Kabkaew L. Sukontason ◽

Kom Sukontason ◽

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Keyword(s):

Rare Species ◽

New Records ◽

Blow Fly ◽

Chiang Mai ◽

Northern Thailand ◽

Chiang Mai Province ◽

First Time

During the annual fly survey at Doi Nang Kaew in Doi Saket District, Chiang Mai Province of Thailand in 2011, Isomyia paurogonitaFang & Fan, 1986 (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and Sumatria latifrons Malloch, 1926 (Diptera: Calliphoridae) were collected for the first time in Thailand. They are the rare species of the subfamily Rhiniinae (tribe Cosminini). Prior to this finding, fifteen species of Isomyia and two species of Sumatriawere recorded from Thailand. Therefore, 96 blow fly species have been found in this country. These new locality records of both flies are very important for further research on their biology and ecology in Thailand.

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Microbial Inoculants in Organic Vegetable Production: Current Perspective

Microbial Strategies for Vegetable Production ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-54401-4_1 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 1-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ranjit Chatterjee ◽

Ayon Roy ◽

Ravi Kiran Thirumdasu

Keyword(s):

Vegetable Production ◽

Microbial Inoculants ◽

Current Perspective ◽

Organic Vegetable Production

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Resource Use Efficiency in Organic Vegetable Production: A Case Study of Manzini Region, Swaziland

Journal of Agricultural Studies ◽

10.5296/jas.v2i2.5958 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 52 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Dumsile Dlamini F ◽

Mukole Kongolo

Keyword(s):

Returns To Scale ◽

Vegetable Production ◽

Resource Use Efficiency ◽

Use Of Resources ◽

Organic Vegetables ◽

Organic Vegetable Production ◽

Soil Preparation ◽

Use Efficiency ◽

Children Education

This study investigated the efficient use of resources in the production of organic vegetables, namely: beetroot, cabbage, carrot, pepper, spinach and tomatoes. The findings indicated that land, labour, organic manure, seeds, soil preparation, age; children, education level and farm legal entity all had significant effect in organic vegetables production in the region. The use of inputs in the production of the vegetables showed increasing returns to scale. As a result of this, the study suggested that in order for farmers to produce efficiently; all inputs that were significant in the production of the vegetables needed to be doubled in order to double the output.

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