Multiple Cropping for Efficient Use of Water and Nitrogen

2015 ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. E. Hook ◽  
G. J. Gascho
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Cropping

Monitoring multiple cropping index using MODIS NDVI data-A case study of Bohai Rim

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 1657-1663 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shou-Zhen LIANG ◽  
Wan-Dong MA ◽  
Ping SHI ◽  
Jin-Song CHEN
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Cropping ◽  
Modis Ndvi ◽  
Bohai Rim

Access to Credit, Farm Productivity and Market Participation in Ghana: A Conditional Mixed Process Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamdiyah Alhassan ◽  
Benjamin Musah Abu ◽  
Paul Kwame Nkegbe
Keyword(s):  
Jel Classification ◽  
Transmission Mechanism ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Market Participation ◽  
Multiple Cropping ◽  
Commercial Agriculture ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Farm Productivity ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
Using Data

This study tests the hypothesis of whether credit impacts productivity, and whether productivity in turn impacts market participation under a simultaneous modelling framework of credit, productivity and market participation, which has not been pursued in the literature. Using data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey Round 6, we applied a conditional mixed process estimation technique to correct for selectivity bias and unobserved endogeneity. We find that credit positively impacts productivity, which in turn positively impacts market participation. Furthermore, other determinants such as roads, public transport, radio and phone, and compliance with extension advice positively influence productivity while availability of markets and multiple cropping in a season increase the decision to sell maize. These findings imply that the transmission mechanism to transform the subsistence nature of Ghanaian agriculture into a sector characterized by commercial agriculture is to enhance access to credit, which in turn would stimulate productivity, which in turn would enhance market engagement. JEL Classification: Q12, Q13, Q14

Irrigation and crop improvement in temperate and tropical environments

1986 ◽  
Vol 316 (1537) ◽  
pp. 319-330 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Low Temperatures ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Crop Improvement ◽  
Yield Potential ◽  
Multiple Cropping ◽  
Tropical Environments ◽  
Physiological Processes ◽  
Seasonal Signals ◽  
The Tropics

There is a strong interaction between irrigation and crop improvement, irrigation creating new opportunities and challenges for plant breeders while depending on their progress for its full benefits to be realized. In temperate environments the primary emphasis is on raising yield potential, especially as irrigation enhances the use of agrichemical inputs. Efficiency of water and energy use through the modification of physiological processes and of sensitivity to stress at various stages of the life cycle is also sought. In tropical environments, breeding for greater yield potential and more comprehensive pest and disease resistance are still important. However, shortening the length of the life cycle, reducing its sensitivity to seasonal signals and increasing yield per day may be more important than raising yield per crop because of the scope for multiple cropping made possible by irrigation in the tropics in the absence of contraints by low temperatures.

Perennial Vine Control in Multiple Cropping Systems on a Clay Soil

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Dennis Elmore ◽  
Larry G. Heatherly ◽  
Richard A. Wesley
Keyword(s):  
Winter Wheat ◽  
Crop Yield ◽  
Clay Soil ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
Corn Yield ◽  
Multiple Cropping ◽  
Established Population

An area of a shrink-swell clay soil (Tunica clay, Vertic Haplaquept) with an established population of redvine, trumpetcreeper, honeyvine milkweed, redberry moonseed, and maypop passionflower was treated with dicamba once in the fall of 1983. The effect on perennial vines was determined for the following 4 yr in three rotational cropping systems involving winter wheat, soybean, corn, and sorghum, all with and without irrigation. Dicamba reduced the population of perennial vines 80% over 4 yr. Redvine and trumpetcreeper, the first and second most abundant species, were reduced by over 83 and 76%, respectively. Yield of soybean increased 17% in 1985 and 1987 while corn yield increased 9% in 1986 with dicamba use. In 1984 no effects on crop yield were measured. This inconsistent crop yield reponse after dicamba treatment, even though perennial vines were suppressed, must be considered in evaluating the economics of using dicamba for perennial vine control.

scholarly journals Can Agroforestry Farmers Attain Sustainability? Case of Farmers in Selected Upland Farming Communities in the Philippines

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Leila Dimayuga Landicho ◽  
Josefina T. Dizon ◽  
Agnes C. Rola ◽  
Maria Ana T. Quinbo ◽  
Rowena DT. Baconguis
Keyword(s):  
Natural Capital ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Multiple Cropping ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Community Capitals ◽  
Conservation Farming ◽  
Study Sites ◽  
High Level

This article is based on the study which investigated the socioeconomic and biophysical conditions of the upland farming communities in the Philippines; identified the development pathways that were undertaken by the upland farmers; and determined level of sustainability of the upland farming communities on the basis of their development pathways. This article argues that agroforestry farmers in upland farming communities in the Philippines can attain sustainability. This argument is based on the study conducted in the three pilot upland communities of the Conservation Farming Villages program in Albay, Ifugao and Negros Oriental, Philippines. From seven focus group discussions (FGDs) with at least 12 participants per FGD for a total of 147 farmers, and farm household survey of 230 upland farmers, research results indicate that agroforestry farmers in the three study sites were smallholders and were cultivating in areas with marginal conditions. There were five development pathways identified. These are monocropping in contour, multiple cropping in contour, agroforestry, agroforestry with non-farm activities, and multiple cropping/monocropping without contour. With the community capitals framework as the theoretical foundation, analysis indicated that the five development pathways contributed to a high level of social, human and political capitals having mean scores of 0.73, 0.55 and 0.54, respectively; a moderate level of physical, financial and natural capital, with mean scores of 0.23, 0.20 and 0.23, respectively; and a very low level of cultural capital with mean score of -0.08. At the community level, on the other hand, research results revealed that the CFV sites in Ligao, Albay and La Libertad, Negros Oriental have almost similar contributions to the sustainability of the upland farming communities, while Alfonso Lista, Ifugao had the lowest. Thus, institutional arrangements with the farmers’ association and the local government units also played a key role in the sustainability of the upland farming communities. These results imply the need for a holistic and collaborative engagement towards attaining sustainable upland farming communities.

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