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No results found.The seminar was divided into four parts. The first examined the economic behaviour of the typical small-scale farmer. He grows four or five agricultural crops with the land, water, manure, farm tools and household labour he has available. Fish farming is a secondary activity. Whether he takes up fish farming and to what extent depends on how beneficial it is likely to be. If he opts for fish farming, he foregoes some other option. He has to weigh the likely costs and benefits of such a choice -- in particular, the costs of the various inputs for each option, and the prices he can charge for the outputs. On the basis of this assessment, he may opt for a combination of fish farming and one or more agricultural crops, or he may not take up fish farming at all. Extension advice to the small-scale farmer has to be based on economic realities. It may be inappropriate to urge an increase in fish pond production if this means the farmer must divert to fish ponds fertilizer that can be more p roductively deployed in agriculture. If fish ponds in an area lie abandoned, it may be because they have outlived their economic utility; extension work should focus then on improving the output per man hour of any pond that is still in use. The seminar's second part discussed the goals of fish farming, from the standpoint of the government as well as the fish farmer. The point was made that the goals of government economic policies coincide with those of farmers who culture fish. The governme nt wants to promote national income by increasing the production of goods and services in the country -- including fish. The farmer, according to the surveys conducted in Zambia, engages in fish farming to increase his consumption, either by eating more fish or by selling fish and buying something he needs.
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IndexesLibrary Classified Catalogue (1)/ Bibliothèque de catalogues systématiques (1) 1948
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No results found.The Protocol of 8-9 July 1946 relative to the dissolution of the International Institute of Agriculture, transferred the functions and assets of the said Institute to FAO. Of these assets, the Library is unquestionably the most outstanding and is a lasting record of the Institute's work and its achievement in the field of agriculture. This catalogue will undoubtedly contribute towards a better knowledge of this international Library. This volume in its present form, represents the systematic card-index, by subject of the Brussels Decimal Classification, in French and English, and it's supplemented by the general alphabetical index of authors.
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