Mini-tillers bolster Nepal maize farmers’ food supplies and profits, new study shows
Use of lightweight, 5-9-horsepower mini-tillers by smallholder farmers in Nepal’s mid-hills cut tillage costs and boosted maize yields by facilitating timely maize cultivation, thus enhancing food self-sufficiency and farm profits and reducing rural poverty, a new study by an international team of s...
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| description | Use of lightweight, 5-9-horsepower mini-tillers by smallholder farmers in Nepal’s mid-hills cut tillage costs and boosted maize yields by facilitating timely maize cultivation, thus enhancing food self-sufficiency and farm profits and reducing rural poverty, a new study by an international team of scientists shows.Published in the Journal of Economics and Development, the study reports findings of an on-farm survey involving more than 1,000 representative households from 6 districts of the mid-hills, a region of steep and broken terrain where rainfed maize is a staple crop, outmigration of working-age inhabitants makes farm labor scarce and costly, and farmers on small, fragmented landholdings typically till plots by hand or using ox-drawn plows. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1302342024-11-07T09:56:11Z Mini-tillers bolster Nepal maize farmers’ food supplies and profits, new study shows Listman, Mike maize farmers food supply rural poverty households Use of lightweight, 5-9-horsepower mini-tillers by smallholder farmers in Nepal’s mid-hills cut tillage costs and boosted maize yields by facilitating timely maize cultivation, thus enhancing food self-sufficiency and farm profits and reducing rural poverty, a new study by an international team of scientists shows.Published in the Journal of Economics and Development, the study reports findings of an on-farm survey involving more than 1,000 representative households from 6 districts of the mid-hills, a region of steep and broken terrain where rainfed maize is a staple crop, outmigration of working-age inhabitants makes farm labor scarce and costly, and farmers on small, fragmented landholdings typically till plots by hand or using ox-drawn plows. 2023 2023-05-03T16:08:45Z 2023-05-03T16:08:45Z Blog Post https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130234 en Open Access International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center Listman, M. (2023). Mini-tillers bolster Nepal maize farmers’ food supplies and profits, new study shows. Blog Post. Mexico: CIMMYT. |
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