INTRODUCTION Agricultural farming is a process of farming in which farmer choose a particular type of farming practices, which can be broadly classified into subsistence and commercial farming. The type of agricultural practice chosen by an individual however depend not only the geographical location which is a function of the culture, education, technology and income of the people. The majority of small scale farmers in Maqadini area, they are facing the poverty, because according to international encyclopedia of economics defined “poverty as a condition faced by families and individuals that fail to receive sufficient income to provide for their basic needs”, in other words, a condition of material deprivation (Petty, J, Morison, R.E., and Hinc,R.2003). The one may say that this rural area is facing a big problem because of the limitation of social services and infrastructure, which can be related to poverty. In Maqadini local food is produced by the small scale farmers cultivating small plots of land depending on rainfall rather irrigation system and usually season take some time to rain. Surveys across the country indicate that both genders (female and males) “farmers cultivate less than 1 ha per household and then also the high proportion of rural people suffer from malnutrition and diseases related to nutrition” (Worldbank, 1996). The other issues are the road network which is the one of the least developed and most of the roads become inaccessible during the rainy days then the unreliable distribution forces the farmers to grow their own food and less of perishable commodities causing a lower productivity. Crop yield become low because farmers lack the inputs such as fertilizers and the farmers have to cope with the declin... ... middle of paper ... ...stems and animal husbandry practice. Hence there is a declining of soil fertility resulting in low level of crop production (due to the lack of input necessary compensate such as fertilizers) and therefore food become scarce due to the pressures of increasing population, low level of livestock productivity (caused by the lack of vaccination) and the farmers have access only to small piece of land for cultivation and this reduce profitability of producing food crops for the markets. OBJECTIVES • To identify the various types of farming system practices in the study area. • To examine the relationship between agricultural practices and rural poverty in the study area. • To investigate suggestion on how to improve the rural economy and sustain the environment for future generation. • To establish the socio-economic conditions of smallholder farmers in the study area
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...earch and extension, rural infrastructure, and market access for small farmers. Rural investments have been sorely neglected in recent decades, and now is the time to reverse this trend. Farmers in many developing countries are operating in an environment of inadequate infrastructure like roads, electricity, and communications; poor soils; lack of storage and processing capacity; and little or no access to agricultural technologies that could increase their profits and improve their livelihoods. Recent unrest over food prices in a number of countries may tempt policymakers to put the interests of urban consumers over those of rural people, including farmers, but this approach would be shortsighted and counterproductive. Given the scale of investment needed, aid donors should also expand development assistance to agriculture, rural services, and science and technology.
...o climate change. All of these have caused an impact on the ability to produce crops and grow agriculturally. Climate change has been increasing the number of droughts, floods, health hazards of employees, natural disasters, and sea level elevations. All of these put in danger the crop productivity resulting in famines and food price increments. Climate change affects agriculture in every country differently due to its location. Countries such as Canada and Russia are being affected positively by climate change since it has enabled the country to prosper agriculturally. Other countries cannot handle drastic temperature changes, such as Sudan and Bangladesh, whose agricultural growth has been affected negatively by the climatic changes. Agriculture is fundamental in a country, creating a balance between agriculture and the increasing climatic changes would be ideal.
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In recent years people often suppose that the hunger might be understood as weakness caused by not enough nutrition. Actually, there are some different meanings between hunger and malnutrition. In general, they are existing as complex difficulty and people can not solve them separately. In some countries the percentage of hunger index is so high like in case of India. Moreover, the study of global hunger was shown that a great deal of humanity suffer from this issue every year. In order to fight with hunger it is important to understand basic principles which lead to happening of hunger. The main reasons for hunger occurring are environmental, political and economic conditions. To my mind, the environmental cause is the most important as land scarcity leads to poverty mostly in comparison with other ones. The purpose of this essay is to struggle with hunger by using agricultural project.