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This study examines the adoption of farm technology by subsistence farmers of the dry savanna of Northern Nigeria characterized by climatic uncertainty and complex mixed cropping systems. It aims to describe the farmers' objectives and decision strategies. It tests the hypothesi…

Constraints to increased agricultural production in Niger include low and variable rainfall, low water retention and poor soil fertility. Population pressure has shortened the fallow period in most regions. The main research problem in this thesis is to identify the determinants…

This study analyzes the determinants of the size of the hazelnut farms in Turkey within the framework of the theory of firm and transaction costs. This study argues that, for a farm production function, land is a complex input with many transaction cost-increasing interactions w…