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Economic analysis of medium scale agricultural enterprises in a predominantly smallholder agriculture sector

Sub Saharan African countries are faced with lagging food production and pervasive poverty. Most of these countries, including Tanzania, depend heavily on agriculture for their economic development and meet their food requirements from domestic production, imports and food aid. Increasing agriculture production is thu...

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Farming systems
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Human resources in agricultural and rural development

Papers on several main developments and issues that either persist or are emerging in the area of human resources for agricultural and rural development. Topics are:

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Introduction to soil classification
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Maasai agriculture and land use change
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Malting characteristics of Tanzania finger millet variaties

Five millet varieties were collected from five different regions in Tanzania and the malting characteristics and the malt quality assessed. The malting losses, germinative energy, free amino nitrogen and diastatic power ranged between 9.4-27.7% and 87.7-95.7%, 96

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Management and utilization of animal manure as a resource for crop production under two major grazing systems in Tanzania

A study was carried out to establish and analyse factors limiting use of animal manure for crop production and evaluate manure management practices under two major animal grazing systems in Morogoro, Dodoma, and Kilimanjaro regions in Tanzania. The results of the study indicated that major variations revolved around t...

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Pulverising pow(d)er: the impact of incoherent European policies on dairy farmers in Tanzania and Jamaica

The paper examines how Europe?s common agriculture policy (CAP) is operated and influences the livelihoods of dairy farmers in Tanzania and Jamaica in order to demonstrate how European policy can hamper the development of farmers in developing countries. It argues the problems faced by farmers result from an inconsist...

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Relationship between farmers and pastoralists
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Soil fertility management in semi-arid agriculture in Tanzania: Farmers' perceptions and management practices

This paper analyses farmers’ soil fertility management in relation to their perceptions of soil fertility and the effects of managing it. It places itself within the discussion of soil fertility management in Sub-Saharan Africa, trying to give voice to what African smallholder farmers think and do about it. The study...

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Spices production and farmers' income: Lessons from Amani, Tanga