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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Udegbunam Edwin CHINONSO, Onu Inyanda JUSTICE

The study analysed the effect of local level institutions’ (LLIs) microcredit delivery on rural farm households’ poverty status in Girei and Yola South Local Government Areas of Adamawa state, Nigeria. Multistage random sampling was used in selecting one hundred and twenty (120) rural farm households’ member of the local level institution and data were collected through questionnaire administration. The study showed that 58% of the rural farm household head respondents were poor and require N4,955.00K to come out of poverty. This is because their per capita consumption is below the poverty line. Moreover, the Lorenz curve and Gini index of 0.207174 showed that the income distribution and income inequality among the respondents are typical not high. The squared poverty index of 0.17 which measures the severity of the poverty, and took into account of the income distribution and inequalities between the poor and the rich it revealed that the poor rural farm households per person in relation to the population only required 17% (N5,615.67) of poverty line to come out of poverty.The logit regression revealed that microcredit significantly added to the model (poverty status) with Naglekerke R Square = 0.402 and Chi-square = 42.604 and corresponding P-value = 0.001. Therefore, the study recommends the need for the government to formulate policies targeting at improving the welfare of the rural farm households, their source of livelihood and improve the lot of low-paid workers by integrating LLIs into the current poverty alleviation programme of the government and make channels for loan delivery so as to achieve the sustainable development goals of eradicating extreme poverty.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Marie NAJOAN, Fenim WOLAYAN, Betty BAGAU, Nerry SOMPIE

Research on the nutritional value of goroho banana stem (Musa acuminafe, sp) fermented by Trichoderma viridae has been carried out in the Laboratory of Technology and Animal Feed Industry of the Faculty of Animal Husbandry at Universitas Sam Ratulangi, Manado. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of Trichoderma viridae inoculum dose and fermentation time to changes in nutritional value (Ash, Crude Protein, Crude Fibers and Crude Lipid) of the fermentation goroho banana stem flour products. This study was designed using completely randomized design with nested pattern. Factor A is the inoculum dose of the Trichoderma viridae fungi of 0.3, 0.6 and 0.9 percent, and factor B is the fermentation time of 4, 8 and 12 days; each treatment was repeated 3 times. Factor B is nested in factor A. Statistical tests with analysis of variance and differences between treatments using Duncan’s multiple range test. The results obtained are fermented goroho banana stem flour (Musa acuminafe, sp) with Trichoderma viridae dose of 0.6 percent for 8 days produced the best nutritional content changes (Ash 20.17%, Crude Protein 21.69%, Crude Fiber 14.94%, and Crude Fat 20.17%).

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Tatyana ANISIMOVA

The article presents the results of studies on the use of nutritious soils based on peat and peat ash for the cultivation of tomato seedlings (Solanum lycopersicum L.). It was found that the most effective was the use of peat-ash compost with a ratio of components 1:4 and peat-ash-lupine compost (1:1:2). The results obtained confirmed their positive influence on the biomass growth of tomato plants, foliage and stem length.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Oana COCA, Gavril ȘTEFAN, Marilena MIRONIUC

Innovation is a key driver of growth and development of the agricultural sector. The importance of innovation in agriculture is supported by the effects that innovation has on performance improvement of the economic entities in this field, in relation with efforts. Organization’s decision to engage in innovation or to use the innovation results is influenced by the perception that the company has on net benefits generated by such an approach. The purpose of the paper is to highlight the evaluation way of innovation process from agriculture domain, through a meta-analytical study on literature published in the field. Results of the study show that, in literature, the general purpose of innovation in agriculture is to reduce environmental impact, followed by the purpose of decreasing costs.The main agricultural innovations studied by researchers are those of process which involve the decrease of resources consumption, such as technological innovations of soil conservation and the precision innovations.The evaluation of innovation process is done mainly through indicators that measures the level of increase in production, the level of cost reduction and through the decrease of negative effects on environmental.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Eugeniu ALEXANDROV

The study aimed to analyze the complex relations between the anthropic factor and natural potential of Bistrita-Nasaud County, with relevance for the turistic phenomenon. Therefore, we proceed to an inventory of potential, based on visits and bibliographic source of information. Also,the study tries a description of adminitrative units, based on their potential, natural and anthropic, and also to identify typologies of villages, based on their turistic potential. The analize relives that the county has an abundance of natural and anthropic resources, such as: national parks, protected areas, spectacular lakes, unique caves in Europe, thermal water, traditions preserved thousands years, special culinary dishes. Therefore, a plenty of tourism activities are suitable in this region, including also special tourism such as hunting, equestrian, cultural tourism, rural tourism and agrotourism.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Liliana GRINCIUC, Tatiana BUJOR

This article shows the evolution of SMEs in Moldova. The country’s economy depends largely on the development of entrepreneurship. Agriculture was a major component of the Moldovan economy. The last two decades the Service sector is the main engine of economic growth in Moldova. For the development of the agrarian sector of Moldova SME sector is of particular importance. Promoting small business in agriculture will ensure the increased competitiveness of the sector.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Cristina STANCĂ-MOISE

This paper is only a part of one two years long study about the knowledge of parasitoide insects that control the populations of the Lepidoptera pest species on the cabbage crops in the inhabitants gardens from the village Sibiel (Sibiel county), Romania. They were analysed some aspects about biology, behaviour and ethology of the phytophagous lepidoptera species on the cabbage crops.The results could help in order to establish a monitoring methodology and management concerning the four Lepidoptera species identified in the cabbage crops: Pieris brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758), Pieris rapae (Linnaeus, 1758), Mamestra brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758), Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758).

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Daniela SIMTION

Modernization of agriculture had the effect of income transfers to other sectors and the boost of overall economic development but also led to a relative decline of agriculture in favour of the food industry. The industrialization of agriculture was realized by increasing inputs from industry through the expansion and generalization of industrial production processes in many agricultural activities. Gradually the share of intermediate consumption and capital per active person in agriculture has increased. For example the total industrialization of pig and poultry farming, as a result of the production of compound feed, a starring role in this process have the upstream industries from agriculture and the technical - commercial services. Food industry based on scale economies have developed and diversified as a result of major investments, food technologies were adapted to the new nutrition models thus diversifying food products and satisfying the demands of mass distribution. Food industry has grown at a different rate from that of agricultural production, as a result of the evolution of consumer demand and consumer behaviour, corresponding to the growth of their incomes. So from a simple activity of processing agricultural products, food industry has become an industry that produces more and more developed food products which highly increases added value compared to agriculture.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Hussein Ali Hussein AL QAESI

Agriculture in Iraq represents a vital component of the country’s economy. Prior to the development of the petroleum industry, agriculture was the primary economic activity in Iraq. Nowadays, there is a strong debate about which direction should Iraqi agriculture take, for its revival and for contributing to national wellbeing, taking also into account the growing competition for water and the challenges due to climate change. This study will be divided into four main sections, which is an introduction in which the literature will also be reviewed, the second main section will be dedicated to technology of agriculture in the present context, the third to organic agriculture the main products grown in Iraq. The last two important sections will be dedicated to the results, which will contain tables of statistical data followed by a discussion in which data will be interpreted, and it will end with the conclusions and recommendations.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Joseph Evo EWA, Chigozirim Ndubuisi ONWUSIRIBE, Felix Chibueze NZEAKOR

This study analyzed the trends and determinants of price in the poultry sub-sector of Nigeria. A time series data, from the period of 1961-2014 were collected from the Food and Agricultural Organization database and other sources. Trend analysis, ADF unit root test, cointegration test error correction model, and impulse response were used to analyze the data. The unit root test using Augmented Dickey Fuller test (ADF) shows that all the variables have constant mean suggesting the presence of a long-term relationship. The Johansen cointegration test indicates the presence of two cointegrating equations suggesting the likelihood of long-run relationships between the variables. The error correction term (ECM) coefficient of 87.2 % indicates that the speed of adjustment of the dependent variable from the short run to the long run was high. Imports of poultry products, capital, inflation, interest rate and tariff rate were the significant variables affecting the domestic poultry product prices in the long run. We, therefore, recommend that a well-articulated import control measures should be adopted and not necessarily tariff increase. An outright ban and border control will go along to help stabilize domestic poultry prices.

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