There is increasing interest in rural development circles in promoting alternative livelihoods opportunities for pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihoods. However, there is very little empirical evidence that effectively evaluates the impact of the existing approaches. As pastoral and agro-pastoral production conditions change, due to factors such as increasing competition over natural resources ...

Abstract Background Various nano-enabled agrochemicals are being extensively used for soil remediation and to boost crop production by increasing the nutrient efficiency of fertilizers. However, understanding their potential risks on manure–soil–plant continuum is limited. These nano-agrochemicals can be potentially toxic microbes associated functions, such as nitrogen (N) mineralization decomp...

The study examined the determinants of technical efficiency among lowland rice farmers in Enugu State, Nigeria. Primary data were sourced from producers through use well designed questionnaires. was conducted four agricultural zones during 2017/2018 cropping season. Multistage and simple random sampling technique employed to select 300 sampled for study. Cobb-Douglas stochastic production front...

1 Institute of Agro-products Processing Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China; E-Mails: [email protected] (L.S.); [email protected] (Y.Z.); [email protected] (Y.M.E.F.); [email protected] (J.C.); [email protected] (J.L.); [email protected] (J.N.S.); [email protected] (F.X.); [email protected] (L.Z.); [email protected] (Y.W.) 2 Key Labor...

Following the ban of synthetic antibiotics as antimicrobial agents and growth promoters, poultry nutritionists are now trying to find antibiotic substitutes. Agro-industrial by-products are abundant in tropical countries and have been used as the alternatives to conventional feedstuffs in poultry rations. These by-products are also known to contain several bioactive compounds such as oligosacch...

The main goal of the research is to develop a system agro-ecological land zoning improve adaptive landscape management and use, based on analysis long-term data in agricultural production for farms various forms ownership city Maikop region, project basic elements ALSLM Republic Adygea. To achieve this goal, materials have been collected structure sown areas farms, gross harvests crop products,...

A Review of Acrylamide: An Industry Perspective on Research, Analysis, Formation, and Control DOMINIQUE TAEYMANS a , JOHN WOOD a , PETER ASHBY b , IMRE BLANK c , ALFRED STUDER c , RICHARD H. STADLER c , PIERRE GONDÉ d , PAUL EIJCK d , SAM LALLJIE e , HANS LINGNERT f , MARIANNE LINDBLOM g , REINHARD MATISSEK h , DETFLEF MÜLLER i , DAN TALLMADGE i , JOHN O'BRIEN j , SARA THOMPSON j , DAVID SILVAN...

Taking a food supply chain approach, this paper examines the regulation of food marketing and nutrition labelling as strategies to help combat obesity in China in an era of rapid agro-food industry growth. China is the largest food producer and consumer in the world. Since the early 1980s, the agro-food industry has undergone phenomenal expansion throughout the food supply chain, from agricultu...

Residual operations are introduced in many video compression algorithms to exploit temporal redundancy in video sequences. One of the most effective and computationally simple algorithms is 3D-DWT-SPIHT algorithm. Nevertheless, it only utilizes intra-GOF temporal redundancy. In order to eliminate inter-GOF redundancy, the Simple GOF Residual Operation (SGRO) algorithm was introduced, where resi...

Nowadays, carotenoids are valuable molecules in different industries such as chemical, pharmaceutical, poultry, food and cosmetics. These pigments not only can act as vitamin A precursors, but also they have coloring and antioxidant properties, which have attracted the attention of the industries and researchers. The carotenoid production through chemical synthesis or extraction from plants is ...