RETRACTED: Challenges for efficient land use in rice production of northern Iran: The use of modern cultivars among small-scale farmers

Ashoori, Daryoush; Allahyari, Mohammad Sadegh; Damalas, Christos A.; Bagheri, Asghar

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.044

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“…It was trigger farmers to adopt rice innovations after they got higher yield than conventional ones. As [21] stated that: "providing subsidized long-term facilities to lowincome farmers' groups would also promote adoption".…”

Section: Rice Innovation Preferencesmentioning

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Understanding rice innovation needed for smallholder farmers in semi-arid area of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Ngongo¹,

Sitorus²,

Huwae³

et al. 2021

E3S Web Conf.

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Rice is grown in various environments across semi-arid areas of ENT province. This paper elaborates agricultural innovations delivered to the smallholder rice farmers and highlights their responses/adaptability. The research conducted in the state boundary of Indonesia-Timor Leste as part of AIAT-ENT program. The study showed that farmers having more access to rice innovation sources tend to adopt better and willing to purchase for external inputs. By adopting introduced rice innovations, co-operatives farmers in state boundaries were able to improve rice productivity from 1 – 2 ton/ha to 5 – 7.2 ton/ha. After 3 years of AIS implementation, almost all farmers have been continuously HYVs of rice. However, the sustainability of the innovation’s adoption has commonly disrupted by the availability of external inputs. Numerous rice-related innovations have been introduced; however, smallholder farmers were keen to adopt only limited ones that suitable with their specific environment and household circumstances. The study concluded that rice innovations delivered to improve rice productivity in semi-arid areas should be focus on specific target groups that suitable their environments and household’ circumstances. Rice-related innovations should be delivered in the broader context not merely to increase rice productivity, rather to improve smallholder semi-arid farmers’ resilience for food security.

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Section: Rice Innovation Preferencesmentioning

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Understanding rice innovation needed for smallholder farmers in semi-arid area of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Ngongo¹,

Sitorus²,

Huwae³

et al. 2021

E3S Web Conf.

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“…In Iran, rice is the second source for supplying food after wheat, with an annual consumption of 39.4 kg per person ( Ashoori et al, 2018 ). Since Iran is located in a warm and dry region, its soils have low organic matter, and it is noteworthy that, the organic matter of the soil as the most important factor in crop yield ranks after the water .…”

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Organic soil amendments using vermicomposts under inoculation of N₂-fixing bacteria for sustainable rice production

Ghadimi

Sirousmehr

Ansari

et al. 2021

PeerJ

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Organic and biological fertilizers are considered as a very important source of plant nutrients. A field experiment was conducted during 2017−2018 in paddy soil to investigate the effect of vermicomposting of cattle manure mixture with Azolla and rice straw on soil microbial activity, nutrient uptake, and grain yield under inoculation of N2-fixing bacteria. Experimental factors consisted of organic amendments at six levels (vermicomposts prepared from manure (VM); manure + rice straw (VRM); manure + Azolla mixture (VAM); manure + rice straw + Azolla mixture (VRAM); raw manure without vermicomposting (M), and a control) and N2-fixing bacteria at three levels (Azotobacter chroococcum, Azospirillum brasilence, and non−inoculation). The results showed that, vermicompost treatments compared to control and raw manure significantly increased the number and biomass−C of soil microorganisms, urease activity, number of tillers hill−1, phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) uptake, and grain and protein yield. Inoculation of plants with N2-fixing bacteria, especially Azotobacter increased the efficiency of organic amendments, so that the maximum urease activity, soil microbial activity, P and N uptake, and grain yield (4,667 (2017) and 5,081 (2018) kg/h) were observed in vermicompost treatments containing Azolla (VAM and VRAM) under inoculation with Azotobacter. The results of the study suggested that, using an organic source along with inoculation with appropriate N2-fixing bacteria for vermicompost has a great effect on enzyme activity, soil biology, nutrient uptake and grain yield has a synergistic interaction on agronomic traits under flooded conditions. Therefore, this nutrient method can be used as one of the nutrient management strategies in the sustainable rice production.

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Does the Indonesian farmer empowerment policy enhance the professional farmer? Empirical evidence based on the difference-in-difference approach

Adam

Jin

Khan

2022

Technology in Society

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RETRACTED: Challenges for efficient land use in rice production of northern Iran: The use of modern cultivars among small-scale farmers

Cited by 4 publications

References 23 publications

Understanding rice innovation needed for smallholder farmers in semi-arid area of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Understanding rice innovation needed for smallholder farmers in semi-arid area of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Organic soil amendments using vermicomposts under inoculation of N₂-fixing bacteria for sustainable rice production

Does the Indonesian farmer empowerment policy enhance the professional farmer? Empirical evidence based on the difference-in-difference approach

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RETRACTED: Challenges for efficient land use in rice production of northern Iran: The use of modern cultivars among small-scale farmers

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Understanding rice innovation needed for smallholder farmers in semi-arid area of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Understanding rice innovation needed for smallholder farmers in semi-arid area of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

Organic soil amendments using vermicomposts under inoculation of N2-fixing bacteria for sustainable rice production

Does the Indonesian farmer empowerment policy enhance the professional farmer? Empirical evidence based on the difference-in-difference approach

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