Finally, the characteristics of farmer-processor relationships considered are trust in commercial partners, uncertainty, and relationship-specific investments.
Though it was variable among various socio-economic characteristics of farmers, tree planting was encouraged, based on ground reality.
In addition, the characteristics of farmers affect their attitudes towards adopting public goods (Jongeneel et al., [2008]).
The survey covered demographic characteristics of farmers, pesticides use practices, use of PPE, and operational habits exhibited by cocoa farmers during and after pesticides applications.
What are those socio-economic/demographic characteristics of farmers that determine their participation in output markets and, what is the likely subsequent effect of market participation on rice farmers' welfare in Nigeria?
The objectives of this study are to describe socio-economic, biophysical and institutional characteristics of farmers, and assess the causes, indicators and determinant factors of climate change based on farmers' perception in northern Ethiopia.
Endogeneity problems arise when unobservable characteristics of farmers affect both the decision to be a member of agricultural cooperatives and the welfare outcome, resulting in inconsistent estimates of the impact of agricultural cooperatives on household welfare.
This large conversion from cultivated and rural settlement land (261 ha) revealed that the expansion of this LULC consumes more cultivated land and leads to decline of crop production as increasing of cultivated land to compensate yield increase is a characteristics of farmers in the watershed.
To increase productivity, technology must be adopted in the production process and the rate of adoption of a new technology is subject to its profitability, degree of risk associated with it, capital requirements, agricultural policies and socioeconomic characteristics of farmers (Shideed and Mohammed 2005).
The characteristics of farmers and controls are presented in Table 1.
However, despite of the shift in tasks, some other characteristics of farmers may still differ from those in other self-employed occupations.
