Smallholder farmers in developing countries often lack appropriate cereal storage facilities which can contribute to food insecurity and low cereal commercialization, particularly when they can only rely on one cropping season with no irrigation. Lack of quality storage can lead to post-harvest...

Agricuture Ministry of Russia has developed a draft of the State program of integrated development of rural territories (SP IDRT) for 2020–20251. Fundamental difference of the new program from the current Federal Target Program “Sustainable development of rural areas for 2014–2017 and the...

Empowerment, as a means and an end of human development, is related to the vulnerable or disadvantaged sections of the society like women. The paper aims at examining the provisions for women empowerment in the five year plans of India. Uncertainty or problems arise when moving theory to...

The Government of Sierra Leone's new Medium-term National Development Plan (MTNDP) 2019-2023 has been founded on a strong political commitment to deliver devel-opment results that would improve the welfare of Sierra Leone's citizens. The plan charts a clear path towards 2023 en route to the goal...

No-tillage is a farming system aiming at minimizing soil disturbance associated with the cultivation of arable crops. This technique, together with the practices of continuous soil cover and of crop rotation, also represents one of the elements of the so called Conservation agriculture, a...