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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Zakaria MESKINI, Nadra RECHIDI-SIDHOUM, A. El-Amine DAHOU, Khalil BOUNAAMA, Abdelkader HOMRANI

The aim of this study was to show the characteristics and to carry out a typology to define the different types of dairy cattle breeding in the state of Relizane, through an analysis of multiple correspondences, followed by an ascending hierarchical classification. The study was carried out in 73 dairy farms with 2,454 cattle including 1,432 dairy cows. The results show that 16% of farmers have not owned agricultural land, and that the utilized agricultural area of the surveyed farms is small on average to 7.47 ha, with an average fodder agricultural area of 3.9 ha which influences negatively on the feed self-sufficiency of farms and plays a preponderant role in poor feed management. The use of corn silage is practiced on 18% of farms. Breeders have an average cattle herd of 33.6 heads, 58.3% of which is represented by dairy cows. The racial composition of the cows is dominated by the imported breeds mainly the Holstein and the Montbéliarde with 57% and 34% respectively. The average number of human work units is 2.21 HWU/farm and in 47% of the farms the staff is exclusively family. The typology revealed six types of farms; these farms are mainly differentiated by the full agricultural area, the utilized agricultural area, the Forage area, the irrigated agricultural area, and by the cattle and dairy cow’s population.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Adedayo O. AJAYI, Kolawole A. ADELOYE, Khadijat O. OLANREWAJU, Khadijat O. OLAYINKA

The study assessed the pattern of communication applicable for information sharing in community development associations (CDAs). Specifically, the study identified the development projects undertaken, determined the level of use of communication channels within and between CDAs and the sequence of information flow within the CDAs. A total of 120 CDA members chosen from the 6 most prominent CDAs in Ilero. These were interviewed with the aid of well-structured interview schedule for data collection. Data analysis was conducted with the use of frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation as well as Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis for hypothesis test. Results revealed that the CDAs had completed infrastructural projects like water bore-hole, interpersonal communication channels were noted as the main media through which information were relayed among CDA members. Also, the sequence of information transmission was found to involve group executives as foremost followed by committees and then general members with proceeds of the general/open discussions to be transmitted to the patrons and advisers. The size of CDA (r=0.375), number of active committees (r=0.33) and average number of people per committee (r=0.391) were indicated to be significantly related to the use of communication channels at 0.01 level of confidence. Therefore, it concluded that the level of use of the communication channels is influenced by the composition and functioning of CDAs.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Damilare FADIJI, Luke OKOJIE, Dare AKERELE, Jefferson OKOJIE

Occupational risk is a major factor reducing productivity of farm workers as it impairs their physical capacity and increase their vulnerability to ill health, diseases and injuries. Agrochemical exposure risk has been attributed to work demand and unhealthy work environment that these workers are subjected to which they are often not compensated. Consequently, this study estimated the compensating wages of life quality for agrochemical exposure risks of cocoa farm workers in Idanre Local Government Area, Ondo State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was used to select 180 cocoa farm workers while data on factors affecting agrochemical exposure risks. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and linear hedonic regression. Linear hedonic regression revealed that temperature (β = 5.02), health index (β = 9.65) and participating in agrochemical spraying (β = 44.71) had positive and significant (p<0.05) influence on compensating wages while smoking (β = -41.77) and use of personal protective gadgets during spraying (β = -31.67) had negative and significant (p<0.05) influence. Cocoa farm workers received ₦75.00k per day as the compensation for incurring occupational risks. The study concluded that appropriate use of personal protective equipment minimizes agrochemical exposure risks. It was therefore recommended that educational programs that will enhance farmer’s knowledge, skills and attitude to adopt safety measures in pesticide usage should be adequately planned.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Chibuzor NWACHUKWU, Doris ANOLIEFO, Chigozie ONWUSIRIBE, Chibuzo OKPOKIRI

Women play a crucial role in the Nigerian Agricultural sector ranging from production to processing and marketing. About 80% of small scale cassava clusters in the western part of Nigeria are owned and operated by women. The study sought to analyse the restrictions and factors that contribute to the participation of rural women in cassava processing in Isiukwuato area of Abia State, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was employed in the selection of eighty (80) respondents from whom data were elicited. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and the probit regression model. The result showed that the respondents were young ( 44.19), with majority married (78.75%), had a mean household size of ( 5.16) persons, attained various levels of education but were small scale farmers with a mean farm size of (1.98) hectares. The probit regression estimate showed that the coefficients of age, education level, farm income, cooperative membership, household size and extension contact influenced the participation of the respondents in cassava processing at varied levels of significance. The model posted a pseudo R2 of (0.6303). Like every other business, the respondents faced restrictions like poor storage facilities, low quality of cassava roots, discolouration and uncontrolled fermentation, inadequate supply of cassava roots all year round among others. Based on the findings, the study suggested the introduction of contract farming in the area, which will ensure a reliable supply of cassava roots for large scale processing and incorporating gender perspective into all agricultural interventions by the government to ensure equal impact.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Mariana GRODEA

Coupled support is one of the main payment schemes from the “optional direct payments” category, introduced in the EU in the year 2015, funded by the Common Agricultural Policy from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF). At EU-28 level, in 2019, 73.2% of the total coupled support budget was directed to the livestock sector, out of which 12.6% to the sheep and goat farming sector. In the same year, the sheep and goat sector from Romania benefited from 64.3 million euros, as against 50.2 million euros in the year 2018, i.e. 37.1% of total livestock sector. The results obtained following this regional analysis reveal that the impact of this payment scheme implementation has positively impacted the development of the sector, both in terms of meat production, slaughtering in specialised units and livestock herds.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Maria-Mihaela ANTOFIE

Home-gardens are at grounding the definition of the cultural rural universe all over the world and are paving for centuries our entire xistence as human civilizations. They are directly connecting people to nature and are securing our rapid access to genetic resources for ood and agriculture in a close connectivity to all them believes and achievements. The natural landscape was sculptured towards the human needs and for centuries they represent the borders between human settlements and wild biodiversity. In Romania traditional home-gardens are ot recognized yet as heritage values of our ancestors even certain papers are describing home-gardens but they are not considering that raditional home-gardens can still be found or investigated. Sibiu county has unique villages with peculiar attributes related to the organization pattern of households, the use of specific genetic resources into their home-gardens including landraces, the access of wild iodiversity for food as well as the connectivity maintenance with the main events of the Christian calendar. The scope of this paper is to cientifically ground a set of indicators to be discussed in order to define traditional home-gardens models for Sibiu county. Furthermore, hey may become important milestones for ensuring food security in the region also considering climate-change dramatic effects.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Robert-Anton V. ION, Dorina Nicoleta MOCUȚA

The economic reality of today shows us more and more that only by adopting and implementing innovative management methods and/or techniques is it possible to obtain an efficient and effective use of available resources, to avoid possible losses, to achieve results and, where appropriate, to demonstrate the usefulness of a public institution or the profitability of a private organization. In this context, but also based on that a significant benefit is considered to have the best possible results with limited resources, we aimed to focus on the economic events in the area of grants allocated to Romania through the European Structural and Investment Funds and to approach the chosen topic, understanding that, probably, the most important challenge for the next period will be for potential beneficiaries to identify and subsequently position themselves in an environment characterized by a balance between risk, cost and added value, which will certainly no longer be achievable without a clear determination of the main key risks they may face during the steps required to carry out an investment project, as well as the measures to mitigate any adverse effects resulting from the occurrence of the risks.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Doris Chidiebere ANOLIEFO, Chibuzor, N. NWACHUKWU, Nnanna, M. AGWU

The study investigated the determinants of capitalization among rice processing enterprise in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. It specifically analysed he level of capitalization in the rice processing enterprise and estimated the determinants of capitalization among the processors. Data were ollected using well-structured questionnaire, administered to one hundred and twenty respondents that constitute the sample size for the tudy. Data analysis involved descriptive statistics such as frequency concept and ordinary least square model. It was observed that that rocessors are medium-sized since none of them were able to invest more than ₦1,000,000. The double-log form was chosen as the lead equation. he F-ratio was statistically significant at 1% probability level indicating high goodness of fit of the regression line. The R2 of 0.788 hows that about 78.8% changes in the investment of the rice processors were accounted for by changes in the explanatory variables included in he model while the remaining 21.2% was accounted for by error. The result shows that age, education, experience and off-firm income were ositively related to the amount of capital invested by rice processors and negatively related to nature of ownership and capital input. The tudy therefore recommended that government and non-governmental organization should provide necessary incentives for rice processors such as oans and other credit facilities so as to improve the efficient and productivity of the processors.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 3
Written by Kumala DEKSISA, Mulubrihan BAYISSA

The study was conducted to identify factors affecting household saving behavior of rural households in the district of Ambo district. Data for the study was collected from 370 households from two Kebeles. Both primary and secondary sources were used for this study and multi-stage sampling technique was used to contact with the study units (households). To attain the objectives of the study the researcher used both descriptive and econometric analysis. With descriptive analysis percentages, figures, graphs, charts and tables were used to present determinants of private saving. The results ultimately reveals that the Sex of the head of the household, Family size, land size, Access to credit and annual income are significantly influencing the saving behavior in the entire study area. Based on these findings, we recommend that government policy intervention should focus on increasing the availability and accessibility of financial institutions, awareness creation and education on the importance saving and saving modalities, planning and expenditure controlling habit, socio-cultural saving barriers, increasing interest rate, and inflation and unemployment combating strategies to augment saving capacity, investment and then economic growth.

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Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 20 ISSUE 4
Written by Olaniran Anthony THOMPSON, Folusade Catherine AROWOSAFE

Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) is an agreement between a public organizations and Organized Private Sectors (OPS). Four ecotourism sites in Nigeria were used for this study. Stratified sample technique was used to select 368 respondents. Data collected were analyzed using 5-point Likert-type scale; the contingent valuation method was applied to find the tourists’ total willingness to pay the new gate fees and for other recreational facilities and services in the ecotourism sites resulting from the proposed PPPs management model. Maximum likelihood estimation of the Logit regression coefficient was applied to find the factors influencing the tourists’ willingness to pay. Results showed that respondents strongly disagreed with the present management system of the ecotourism sites with a mean score of 1.38. Result of the tourists’ willingness to pay increased considerably, ranging from 40.59% to 133.83% above the current prices. Result of the logit regression model revealed that bid amount, age2, and estimated annual income, among others, were the variables that influence the tourists’ willingness to pay. Anew sustainable and efficient PPPs management model was proposed for the ecotourism sites that can be adopted in Nigeria and Sub-Sahara Africa.

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