INTRODUCTION Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease, which has become a major public health threat in Sri Lanka. A majority of patients are farmers in rural endemic areas. The purpose of the present study is to describe the level of knowledge and frequencies of risky practices related to leptospirosis among a sample of rural school adolescents in Galgamuwa, Kurunegala district, a highly endemic ar...

iran is a major producer of saffron in the world. about 255 tons of saffron is produced on 70 thousands hectares of land, of which 125 tons are exported. production is practiced on small holding, using traditional cultivation practices. one of the major problems associated with saffron cultivation is soil fertility depletion during the first cultivation period, the effects of which extends for ...

The water aquifers of the regions of Asopos River in Viotia and Messapia in Evia (Greece) have been contaminated with hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) and bivalent nickel (Ni (II)). Given that these areas are the two biggest tuber producing regions of Greece, in our previous work, the cross-contamination of the food chain with these two heavy metals was quantified. In the present study, the potent...

BACKGROUND Algal biofilm technology is recently supposed to be a promising method to produce algal biomass as the feedstock for the production of biofuels. However, the carrier materials currently used to form algal biofilm are either difficult to be obtained at a low price or undurable. Commercialization of the biofilm technology for algal biomass production extremely requires new and inexpens...

The agricultural economy of the coastal zone of Queensland and adjacent areas of New South Wales is dominated by sugar production designed for inter-state and overseas export destinations. The modern bulk-cargo terminals which provide shipment facilities at six Queensland sugarports constitute a critical element in a complex system of cultivation, processing, transport and marketing which is cl...

The aim of the current study was to investigate if there are any health effects of long-term consumption of organically grown crops using a rat model. Crops were retrieved over two years from a long-term field trial at three different locations in Denmark, using three different cultivation systems (OA, organic based on livestock manure; OB, organic based on green manure; and C, conventional wit...

The correlation coefficient of climatic factors necessary for cultivation of saffron between Sabzevar stations and those of southem parts of Khorasan is strong. In October, no frost can be seen in Sabzevar, but it can be seen in other stations. This study showed that there was no difference in viewpoints of climatic factors in cultivation stations in both areas. Comparing the correlation coeffi...

Agriculture is one of the most momentous inventions of humanity. It generated a surplus of food as a consequence of which a sizable fraction of societies were able to engage in economic activities other than agriculture. Thus, agriculture is considered to have been a prerequisite for the development of many civilizations throughout the world. It originated independently and at similar times (ar...

Different malarial situations in Africa within the past 40 years are discussed in order to evaluate the impact of climatic and human factors on the disease. North of the equator, more droughts and lower rainfall have been recorded since 1972; and in eastern and southern Africa, there have been alternating dry and wet periods in relation to El Niño. Since 1955, the increase in human population f...

Wood-cultivated ginseng, including roots in its dried form, is produced in forest land without using artificial facilities such as light barriers. To identify suitable sites for the propagation of wood-cultivated ginseng, factor combination technique (FCT) and linear combination technique (LCT) were used with geographic information system and the results were superimposed onto an actual wood-cu...