Among the key factors in this regard include education level of the household head, plot size operated by the household, land tenure security, distance to the input market, water-retaining capacity of the plot, access to credit, manure adoption, expected yields and yield variability.
The model displays that farmers' educational background, farm size, water availability, the application of manure, access to formal credit, Water User Association's services, farmers' participation in off-farm work and poor drainage systems, significantly contribute to input use efficiency.
Farmers achieved cost savings because previous plans had not given enough credit to soil reserves, manure, and sod crop nutrients.
Farmers see goats as a source of income, security, credit, prestige, independence, food, manure and apprenticeship for young children.
In 1999, with the help of Fibrowatt lobbyists, Roth pushed through a credit for energy produced from chicken manure; he piggybacked it on an existing credit for energy produced from the wind and from plant matter.
Why not make this change immediate, instead of the bill's other costly tax cuts–such as a tax credit for generating electricity by burning chicken manure?
Given the scarcity of manure and the limited land available for fallowing, cotton cultivation with its input credit schemes is often the main entry point for nutrients in cropping systems of West Africa.
It is then comparable to traditional compressed natural gas with one-fifth the carbon intensity because a credit is applied to the biogas owing to decreased methane emissions compared to traditional manure management techniques.
