Farmers’ perceptions and attitudes towards the development of the sheep and goat sector in the Greek region of Evros

Aggelopoulos, Stamatis; Karelakis, Christos; Τsantopoulos, Georgios; Pavloudi, Alexandra; Seitanis, Paschalis

doi:10.1186/s40064-016-2811-3

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“…The highest number of culled adult females (Cluster 1, Table 3) and the highest number of young females for reproduction (Cluster 1, Table 4) lead to improved economic results; therefore, this strategy should be strongly recommended to sheep farmers. The literature (Silva et al, 2006;Aggelopoulos et al, 2016) emphasizes that the use of selected ewes, even with the replacement of females from the same flock, leads to increased sheep production profitability, which was confirmed by our results.…”

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Meat sheep farming systems according to economic and productive indicators: A case study in Southern Brazil

Debortoli¹,

Monteiro²,

Gameiro³

et al. 2021

Revista Brasileira De Zootecnia

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This study aimed to characterize 24 representative sheep production farms from five mesoregions in the state of Paraná, Southern Brazil, so that economic and productive improvement strategies could be proposed. The representative farms for each region were defined at meetings with sheep farmers and technicians via the rapid appraisal methodology and represent 65% of the state's flock. The information of each representative farm was collected between March 2015 and February 2016. Principal component analysis was used to verify the relationships among the different variables that characterized the farms. These characteristics were: number of ewes (V1), total cost per kilogram of revenue-generating product (V2), feeding costs (V3), labor costs (V4), facility and equipment depreciation costs (V5), and gross margin in the production cycle (V6). Cluster analysis was performed, resulting in three distinct groups: one including eight, another seven, and the third, nine farms. The results aided in classifying the farms into groups with similar characteristics, such as production scale, reproductive efficiency, technical and managerial control, appreciation of cooperatives, and availability of continuous technical assistance. The production scale, reproductive and productive efficiency, adoption of technologies, and cooperative organizational structure can be emphasized as positive performance benchmarks and were the most important aspects to achieve positive economic results.

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Meat sheep farming systems according to economic and productive indicators: A case study in Southern Brazil

Debortoli¹,

Monteiro²,

Gameiro³

et al. 2021

Revista Brasileira De Zootecnia

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“…Education, participation in their institutions, farming experience, income, expense, and attitude have different levels in predicting internal factors because of the following reasons, i.e. social influences do not facilitate their relationship, exceptional characteristics of the region (Aggelopoulos et al, 2016), a mismatch between perceived risk sources and risk management strategies (Duong et al, 2019).…”

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Behavioral Changes of Independent Palm Smallholders Farmers through Farmer Institution

Nurliza

Fauyan

2021

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Farmer institutions along with regulatory, normative, and cultural cognitive aspects have important roles in social cohesion to achieve the food security of independent palm smallholder farmer households. However, some dysfunctionalities and external challenges affect the structure of their institutions. This paper aims to find ways to change the behavior of independent palm smallholder farmers by identifying the internal and external factors of their behaviors in their institutions. The data were collected from 100 smallholders in West Kalimantan using Structural Equation Model (SEM). The results indicate that the internal factors do not influence farmers’ behavior because of lack of social influences on their relationships, exceptional characteristics of the region, and a mismatch between perceived risk sources and risk management strategies. Meanwhile, the external factors (the surrounding environment, institutional information, the extension roles, ISPO, reward, and family encouragement) show positive influences on farmers' behavior. Therefore, to optimize the behavioral changes of independent palm smallholders in their institutions, knowledge exchange is necessary through formal or informal communication networks. Also, they need to have the connections with institutional buyers and potential agro-processing entrepreneurs and the connection with appropriate formal saving schemes, and financial products in their value chains.

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“…It has been stated that farmers often show a rather negative general attitude towards government authorities and public administration and that their trust in public organizations is low (Cantrill, 2003). This might affect their view on governmental conservation programs (Aggelopoulos et al, 2016;Gronewold et al, 2012). We did not have a statement in our survey that directly relates to farmers' attitude towards governmental organizations.…”

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Management, methods and attitudes concerning grassland farming in Northern Germany

Hammes¹

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The efficiency of a multifunctional grassland depends on well balanced goals. However, the more services are demanded from grassland the more likely are goal conflicts and trade-offs (Isselstein and Kayser, 2012;Isselstein and Kayser, 2014).The frame conditions for grassland management can change due to agricultural political targets, market processes, cost structures, technological process and climate change on a regional scale. These factors can intensify goal conflicts and compromise sustainable, multifunctional grassland farming (Dabbert and Krimly, 2004;Soussana and Lüscher, 2007; Peeters, 2008). Therefore, it makes sense to evaluate grassland farming and grassland management practices on a regional and on a farm scale in order to development sophisticated adaption strategies for a sustainable grassland management.An assessment of grassland farming systems by quantitative indicators for the sustainability of production system can also be helpful (Taube and Wachendorf, 2004, van Passel et al., 2006, Treyse et al 2008. This approach would include investigations on productivity and nutrient fluxes on different levels and in different production systems (Schröder et al., 2003;Rotz et al., 2005).Furthermore, climate change is supposed to change the productivity of grassland (yields and nutritional quality) (Lüscher et al., 2005; Hopkins and Del Prado, 2007). The impact of climate change on grassland depends on the botanical composition of the sward and can be modified by fertilization and other management practices (Harmens et al., 2002).Climate change can have differed effects on grasslands: elevated CO2 concentrations will generally increase grassland productivity while predicted less precipitation, especially during summer periods, might lead to drought periods resulting in smaller yields; more rainfall in winter can lead to waterlogging on sensitive soils (e.g. Thornley and Cannell, 1997; Dukes et al., 2005). The NaLaMa-nt ProjectThe investigations in the context of this dissertation were conducted within the scope of the joint research project NaLaMa-nT: Sustainable land management in the North German Plain. The aim of the project was to establish a knowledge and decisions basis

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Farmers’ perceptions and attitudes towards the development of the sheep and goat sector in the Greek region of Evros

Cited by 6 publications

References 12 publications

Meat sheep farming systems according to economic and productive indicators: A case study in Southern Brazil

Meat sheep farming systems according to economic and productive indicators: A case study in Southern Brazil

Behavioral Changes of Independent Palm Smallholders Farmers through Farmer Institution

Management, methods and attitudes concerning grassland farming in Northern Germany

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