International NGO Journal

  • Abbreviation: Int. NGOJ
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8225
  • DOI: 10.5897/INGOJ
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 264

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Adoption of the “Conservation Farming” practice in maize production by small holder farmers in the Makoni District of Zimbabwe

Mafuse Never
  • Mafuse Never
  • Bindura University of Science Education, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Department of Agricultural Economics, Education and Extension, P. O. Box 1020, Bindura, Zimbabwe.
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Gono Nyeverwai
  • Gono Nyeverwai
  • Bindura University of Science Education, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Department of Agricultural Economics, Education and Extension, P. O. Box 1020, Bindura, Zimbabwe.
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Manyumwa Dadirayi*
  • Manyumwa Dadirayi*
  • Bindura University of Science Education, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Department of Agricultural Economics, Education and Extension, P. O. Box 1020, Bindura, Zimbabwe.
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Munyati Vincent Tinashe Gwati Maponga
  • Munyati Vincent Tinashe Gwati Maponga
  • Bindura University of Science Education, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Department of Agricultural Economics, Education and Extension, P. O. Box 1020, Bindura, Zimbabwe.
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Muhau Edgar
  • Muhau Edgar
  • Bindura University of Science Education, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Department of Agricultural Economics, Education and Extension, P. O. Box 1020, Bindura, Zimbabwe.
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  •  Accepted: 19 November 2013
  •  Published: 31 January 2014

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