In recent years, accidents in food quality & safety frequently occur, and more and more people have begun to think highly of food quality & safety and encourage food producers to be able to trace the origin of ingredients and process of production along the supply chain. With the development of IT, more and more practices have shown that the supply chain of agricultural products should rely on ...

The relationships between agricultural science, invention, production and consumption are conventionally considered in a hierarchical model with consumption at the basis and science at the pinnacle of the hierarchy. Two important shortcomings of that model as a basis for organizing and managing agricultural research are identified. First, the model does not specify how the direction and intensi...

Agricultural knowledge is a special kind of domain knowledge, and is a significant basis for agricultural knowledge-based intelligent information service system. This paper presents main results of our ongoing project of Agricultural Knowledge Processing and Applications (AKPA): 1) An agriculture-specific ontology, 2) A method for agricultural knowledge acquisition and representation, 3) An exp...

social network analysis used to study the relationship between stakeholders and actors in natural resource management has become a scientific approach. the purpose of this study was analysis of information exchange network among organizations engage in the sustainable management of natural resources. results of social network analysis revealed that there is weak relationship among organizations...

Beijing agricultural comprehensive information service plays an important role in agricultural resources using and rapid development of the rural economy. Combined with the Web Service and its extension technology, Beijing agricultural information service platform was built with the base of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) framework. The platform enables efficient management and using of agr...

This paper examines the structures of information transfer to the agricultural (production) and agro-alimentary (transformation and commercialization of the products) sector within Spain. A historical perspective is provided to better illustrate the reality and complexity of Spain with regard to the systems of agrarian extension, agricultural research, resources provided by Spain’s central admi...

The purpose of the study reported here was designing Information Dissemination System (IDS) based E-learning in agricultural of Iran. A questionnaire was developed to designing Information Dissemination System. The questionnaire was distributed to 96 extension agents who work for Management of Extension and Farming System of Khuzestan province of Iran. Data collected were analyzed using the Sta...

Information in our days is very important for management of farms and agricultural enterprises as far as enterprises of agricultural processing industry. A lot of information is necessary for federal state institutions and local authorities for development of policy of agricultural sector and rural areas and its control. Knowledge about processes, taking place in sector of agriculture, and its ...