Essays about: "farm size"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 187 essays containing the words farm size.

  1. 1. How commercialization rate impacts the profits of dairy farms in Kenya

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Jens Mårtensson; [2024]
    Keywords : Smallholder farmer; Milk production; Economic development; Agricultural productivity; Poverty reduction; Livestock management;

    Abstract : This study investigates the relationship between farm profitability and commercialization rates among smallholder farmers in Kenya. Through an analysis of data from 453 farms, the research examines several factors, including milk production, household size, education level, and livestock ownership, that can affect commercialization rate and dairy profit. READ MORE

  3. 2. Riskfaktorer för Strongylus vulgaris – en enkätstudie

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Clinical Sciences

    Author : Jessica Lernå; [2023]
    Keywords : Strongylus vulgaris; blodmask; stor blodmask; häst; avmaskning; riskfaktorer;

    Abstract : I stort sett exponeras alla betande hästar för endoparasiter någon gång under sin levnad. Strongylus vulgaris, en av hästens stora blodmaskar, anses vara den hästparasit som är mest patogen och kan orsaka skador som är direkt fatala. Strongylus vulgaris har en fekal-oral livscykel som tar cirka sex till sju månader att fullborda. READ MORE

  4. 3. Profitability of optimizing biogas production in dairy farms : an experimental case study of a Swedish dairy farm´s usage of nitrogen in digestate as a nutrient resource for crop production

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Nils Hermansson; Albin Åkerblom; [2023]
    Keywords : biogas; optimization; profitability; economic effects; organic; conventional; agriculture; dairy farms; digestate; nitrogen; biogas; optimering; lönsamhet; ekonomiska effekter; ekologiskt; konventionellt; lantbruk; mjölkgårdar; rötrester; kväve;

    Abstract : Biogas has the potential to be a contributor to sustainable energy for electricity, fuel, and heating. Because of that, there are different alternatives for biogas plants. In this study, a farm-based biogas plant for electricity production has been of interest. READ MORE

  5. 4. Green hydrogen production in SE4, a business case for large-scale green hydrogen in SE4

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för energivetenskaper

    Author : Petter Håkansson; [2023]
    Keywords : Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : As the greenhouse gas emissions keep on increasing the need for solutions to help reduce emissions across all sectors has never been greater. The European Union has pointed out green hydrogen as a step in increasing the sustainability of the energy sector in Europe. READ MORE

  6. 5. The sources and dynamics of technological change in cassava farming in Ghana

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Chekhros Kilichova; [2023]
    Keywords : Ghana; cassava; technology adoption; agricultural transformation; farm size; agricultural extension service; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Farm size expansion in some countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including in Ghana, is a recent phenomenon, and is indicative of the agricultural transformation process taking place in the region. Technology use and adoption level is an integral and complex part of this process, which is studied in relation to the expanding farm sizes and agricultural transformation in this study. READ MORE