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Impact of Focus Farm Management on Growth Performance, Mortality, and Economic Efficiency in Commercial Broiler Production
2026 · Biological and Clinical Sciences Research Journal · Rehman, Attiq Ur, Khan, Alam Zeb, Shah, Shahzada Khurram Adrian et al.
2026
Setting, scene, event, and allegory: A closer look at George Orwell’s ‘chronotope’ in Animal Farm The present study examines the choice of setting that lends George Orwell’s ingenious novella its title. The beguiling simplicity of this setting, which contains the plot and drives the narrative, gives perpetual appeal to this miniature masterpiece. The narrative analysis focuses on the setting and its influence on the reader’s response, particularly through the creation of a connotative complex, drawn partly from pastoral and ecological modes. These modes support the spirit of the city while also reinforcing industrial-capitalist ideologies in an ongoing debate over the ideal composition of the economic base and the related legal, political and cultural superstructure. In this contest, the country strangely favors capitalism in determining the dominant ruling class. However, this
2025 · SSRN Electronic Journal · Bansal, Mamta, Singh, Divyajyoti
2025
A vital component of India&#039;s rural economy, the livestock industry employs millions of marginal, small and landless farmers and substantially contributes to the country&#039;s food supply. The cattle industry has shown resilience throughout time, continuously registering positive growth rates despite hardships like droughts. Small and marginal farmers mostly depend on cattle as a source of income, devoting a sizeable amount of their budget to animal husbandry. The economic surveys conducted in 2016–17 and 2017–18 emphasize how livestock contributes more to agricultural revenue overall, underscoring the sector&#039;s expanding importance. Women are vital to the cattle industry and many of them are involved in dairy groups. A comprehensive strategy for enhancing the livelihoods of small and marginalized farmers, Integrated Farming Systems (IFS) encourages resource efficiency, food security and recycling of nutrients. IFS provide options for employment, revenue generation and sustainable production by combining field crops with farm animals. IFS improves environmental sustainability, profitability and productivity by managing resources well. Different models have been created to improve farm revenue and productivity in the context of dairy-based IFS. These models provide small farmers with a holistic solution by combining crop growing, hydroponics, vermicomposting and other related practices with dairy farming. to bolster the dairy-focused industry, steps need to be taken, including making loans to small farmers hassle-free, encouraging the use of sex-sorted semen technology, creating online marketplaces for bovine germplasm, applying genomic technology to breed improvement, and incorporating livestock into agricultural systems. The livestock industry is greatly aided by research and development, which focuses on topics including breed improvement, thermostable vaccinations, ethno-veterinary treatment and animal feeding plans unique to a certain location. India can increase agricultural production, guarantee food security and improve farmers&#039; livelihoods in a sustainable way by focusing on dairy-based IFS development and provide the required assistance.
2024 · International Journal of Agriculture Extension and Social Development · Kumar, Brijesh, Kumari, Vandana, Bajia, Nikhil Pal et al.
2024
Evaluation of the economic and financial situation of Polish farms focused on milk production in 2004-2020
2023 · Bulgarian Portal for Open Science · Килар, Януш, Kilar, Janusz
2023
Qualitative analysis of the socio-economic effects of the adoption of agroecological innovations by family farms in the Boeny region (Madagascar) ProSol project: This report presents the results of the first stage of the study analyzing the socio-economic effects of the adoption of agroecological innovations by family farms in the areas covered by the ProSol project in the Boeny region of Madagascar. This first stage is based on a qualitative approach involving individual (38) or focus group (4) interviews and non-participant observations with the project's main stakeholders.
2023 · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · Grislain, Quentin, Rakotohavana, Miharisoa Fanantenana, Bélières, Jean‐François et al.
2023
COMPARISON OF FARMS FOCUSING ON PLANT PRODUCTION IN THE PRODUCTION AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC AND LITHUANIA
2022 · RURAL DEVELOPMENT 2019 · Ровны, Патрик, Brodňanová, Rebecca, Bírová, Katarína
2022
Data on structure and farming practices of French organic vegetable farms, with focus on the use of inputs and the socio-economic context
2021 · Data in Brief · Pépin, Antonin, Morel, Kévin, Werf, Hayo van Der
2021
Economic feasibility analysis of the renewable energy based business model in the agricultural sector and policy implications - Focusing on the “Smart Farms” using renewable energy -
2020 · Innovation studies · Lee, sangwon, Cho, Youngsang
2020
A comparison of economic performance between high-yielding temperate breeds and zebu-crossbreds on smallholder dairy farms in Southern Malawi with particular focus on reproductive performance
2018 · Tropical Animal Health and Production · Gazzarin, Christian, Banda, M. C., Lips, Markus
2018
Economic and financial results of farms with field crops against farms focused on the remaining crops and the total farms in Poland based on Polish FADN data.
2017 · Figura, Michał
2017
Economic and financial results of farms with field crops in comparison to farms focused on other crops and farms in Poland in general based on Polish FADN data.
2017 · Ambroziak, Adam A.
2017
A Study on Marriage relationship and the economic foundation of Lee Seong-gye in the Late Goryeo Perio; Focusing on Jaebyeok-dong(滓甓洞) and Cheolhyeon(鐵峴)’s farms in Pocheon
2016 · 한국학논총 · Eui, Hong Young
2016
deteriorating situation of the mountain peasantry became a defense problem, did this question of 'rural exchange' receive high priority in the Economic Programme of the government [SPP, 1985]. Agrarian investment in the 1980-84 period was maintained at a high level, equivalent to about half the national total. This was almost exclusively concentrated on the APP: that is, in about half the modern sector or about a quarter of the whole of agriculture. This investment included extensive irrigation works, imports of tractors and combine harvesters, coffee reno-vation, a sugar mill, palm oil plantations, intensive dairy and beef breeding units, as well as the recapitalisation of the new state farms ruined by their previous owners. It formed part of a long-term strategy discussed below and thus did not itself add much to production during the first five years, although it did help compensate declines in the large private production sector. Given the external terms of trade (which had deteriorated by 40 per cent between 1977 and 1983 [CEPAL, 1984]) and the gradual recovery of production, the agricultural sector was not in a position to generate a sufficiently large surplus to finance its own investment. Even though the sector generated three times more exports than it absorbed imports [MIDINRA, 1985], the foreign exchange thus released was needed to maintain basic consumption elsewhere in the economy. Similarly, food supplies over and above the requirements of the agrarian workforce were needed to maintain the rest of the population; there was no significant capital goods sector to absorb these wagegoods [FitzGerald, 1982]. Thus, this investment was basically financed from abroad, initially with long-term development loans from multilateral institutions, but as US agression increased these funds were cut off and replaced by commercial credits from both capitalist and socialist suppliers. This was economically justifiable in that the increment in exports (or substituted imports) would have a compensatory balance of payments effect within a few years. Eventually, however, a net exchange surplus would have to be generated so that agroexports should expand more rapidly than domestic foodstuffs rather than the reverse, as had been the case between 1980 and 1984, when popular living standards had a higher priority than the trade balance. None the less, the major shortcoming of this accumulation model was undoubtedly its almost exclusive concentration on the APP as the focus of modernisation. Large private farmers might not wish to invest, but the middle farmers and the co-operatives were also neglected in machinery assignment, cattle restocking, and irrigation equipment. The political objective of preventing the re-emergence of capitalist accumulation or the reconstruc-tion of a rural bourgeoisie (albeit on a petty scale) appears to have been the main justification. However, the cost in terms of production was high, and in any case such a sector could have been simply controlled through the existing fiscal, banking and commercial mechanisms, let alone the eventual application of the Agrarian Reform laws.
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considerable advantages, too, for the spread of producer co-operatives. In addition, while bypassing the obstacle posed by economic fragmentation, such investments would nevertheless be attacking it, thus raising the degree of economic integration. No doubt, these investments would require industrial inputs at a higher level than before and the financing of this might imply that the planners have to give up some of the surplus extracted from the agricultural sector for use by it within its boundaries. In our opinion, this approach provides the basis for achieving high growth targets in the medium term without compromising on the distributional front at the class, sector, or regional levels. Two qualifications need to be registered. First, this does not imply that the DTYP target of y = 7.5 per cent per annum becomes feasible in this strategy. Even in Case A, the argument was only partly that it was probably not achievable; rather, that achieving it with n = 3.5 per cent would almost certainly lead to a vicious inflationary spiral, thereby worsening income distribution. In Case B, the burden of financing would be shared in an egalitarian manner through the rationing system but its average level would not be any different. What is being argued is that, first, for any given n, y* (C) > y* (A, B), and second, the rate of growth of n would be substantially greater over time in Case C than in Case A or B. Thus, Case C could be viewed as laying the basis for an eventual second phase of an industrialisation drive of the type now being proposed, in our view, prematurely. Second, it is probable that under Case C, rural foodgrain consumption would rise in the short run. In this strategy, too, state farms would play a crucial part in the transitional phase and beyond. It is necessary therefore to assist them in achieving efficiency quickly, and to overcome the problems of haphazard location and early growth. A period of consolidation might be necessary prior to any further expansion on any large scale. Finally, we need to turn our focus to the problems of urban poverty and unemployment which are not directly handled in any of the three cases. A separate policy component is therefore called for. A two-pronged approach is necessary. The first of these is to ensure that all low-income earners are covered by the urban rationing system. In the present context, this would require extending the coverage to the smaller urban centres and even in the larger ones to that lowest strata which might not be registered in any urban kebele. Thus, the AMC needs to grow greatly and quickly. It is in this context that the current and future role of the state farm sector has to be seen. Even within the framework of Case C, it will be some time before the area of stable grain yields is extended to a point where the urban populations are not held to ransom by the weather all too frequently; in the meantime, the state farms provide an insurance cover which is indispensible. (A corresponding function would be performed in the food-insecure rural areas by the grain banks suggested earlier.) Further, the kebele shops need to move more into the inferior cereals, in particular, sorghum, maize and black teff. Improving the storage facilities of the AMC and state farms could achieve the welcome result of lowering cost by anything up to 15-20 per cent on some crops. All such gains registered should reflect themselves in lower prices for the inferior, rather than for the superior, cereals as appears to have been the case in the recent past.
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