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Mini-tillers bolster Nepal maize farmers’ food supplies and profits, new study shows
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Mini-tillers bolster Nepal maize farmers’ food supplies and profits, new study shows
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Listman, Mike
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maize
farmers food supply rural poverty households |
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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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2023
2023-05-03T16:08:45Z 2023-05-03T16:08:45Z |
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Blog Post
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Listman, M. (2023). Mini-tillers bolster Nepal maize farmers’ food supplies and profits, new study shows. Blog Post. Mexico: CIMMYT.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/130234 https://www.cimmyt.org/news/mini-tillers-bolster-nepal-maize-farmers-food-supplies-and-profits-new-study-shows/ |
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en
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Other
Open Access |
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CIMMYT
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