Sentence examples for classification of farming from inspiring English sources

That is why classification of farming systems is a pragmatic starting point for facilitating appropriate technology in this region.

Classification of farming situation by the farmers has also been suggested by some authors (Conroy and Sutherland [2004]; Goswami et al. [2012]).

Indian Council of Agricultural Research ICARR) used several factors for classification of farming systems, but the bases were more discussion-based with limited statistical applications, perhaps due to functional purpose of the classification (Sanjeev et al. [2010]).

A classification of farming systems which accounts for such features in Italy is proposed (Table 2), on the basis of the systems' aims and complexity, based on their degree of diversification, as well as on the degree of integration of the different productive factors (Pardini and Rossini 1997; Pardini 2002a, b, c, 2006a, b, 2009).

Most of the farm typology study has focused on socio-economic and agro-ecological factors for classification of farms.

We propose an approach that, at the farm level, combines the classification of farm management systems with indicators of ES provision.

In-depth and comprehensive classification of farms was possible resulting in a manageable number of farm types (four) that could be taken up for appropriate policy and technological intervention.

With economic characterization of farms as the objective at hand, the present study assumes that classification of farms based on economic returns from farm enterprises, along with other related non-economic factors, will give more effective insights into the farm type identification.

Therefore, this paper aims to compare the properties of the contact networks that arise from the classification of farm premises as being in contact by point distance measures, by Voronoi and area-weighted Voronoi tessellation, and by maps showing the field boundaries of premises and geographical features that surround them.

Within the same research population, farm management is assessed with two conceptually different classification approaches — the sociological 'style of farming' approach and the farm-economic 'management level' approach.

Had we used the conventional method for identifying farm types, i.e. classification based on farm size or income sources of the farm, the diversity of farming systems would have been grossly underestimated.