Prospects of Guizhou Province’s Ecological Agriculture Benefit Evaluation Index System

A Multi-Criteria Index for Ecological Evaluation of Tropical Agriculture in Southeastern Mexico

The aim of this study was to generate an easy to use index to evaluate the ecological state of agricultural land from a sustainability perspective. We selected environmental indicators, such as the use of organic soil amendments (green manure) versus chemical fertilizers, plant biodiversity (including crop associations), variables which characterize soil conservation of conventional agricultura...

Prospects of Pigeonpea Hybrids in Indian Agriculture

Stagnant production, soaring prices, and enhanced imports of pigeonpea (red gram) have been matter of concern to the prime stakeholders in India. A new hybrid pigeonpea breeding technology, developed jointly by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) is capable of substantially increasing the productivity o...

Towards ecological intensification of world agriculture

Nanotechnology in agriculture: prospects and constraints

Attempts to apply nanotechnology in agriculture began with the growing realization that conventional farming technologies would neither be able to increase productivity any further nor restore ecosystems damaged by existing technologies back to their pristine state; in particular because the long-term effects of farming with "miracle seeds", in conjunction with irrigation, fertilizers, and pest...

Sar for Agriculture: Advances, Problems and Prospects

Then, the paper considers three aspects of the retrieval problem, corresponding to three fundamental steps: i) identification of a convenient radar configuration; ii) development of reliable relationships between backscatter coefficient and agricultural variables (direct problem); iii) retrieval in the strict sense (inverse problem). For each of the three topics, the important recent advances a...