The characteristic features of Japanese agriculture are rice production and its highly mechanized small scale farming system due to the limited land space. Agricultural production system in mechanization has been currently changed from mass production system to flexible manufacturing system, which became already much popular in industrial production one. This can be explained that the target cr...

Understanding how precipitation inter-annually changes and its implication in agricultural drought and production change in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) growth season is critical for crop production in China. MODIS Temperature-Vegetation Dryness Index (TVDI) and daily mean precipitation time series for the main growth season(Feb. to May) of winter wheat from 2000 to 2010 were used to ana...

Production of liquid biofuels, such as bioethanol, has been advocated as a sustainable option to tackle the problems associated with rising crude oil prices, global warming and diminishing petroleum reserves. Second-generation bioethanol is produced from lignocellulosic feedstock by its saccharification, followed by microbial fermentation and product recovery. Agricultural residues generated as...

This study provides a spatially comprehensive assessment of sustainable agricultural residue removal potential across the United States for bioenergy production. Earlier assessments determining the quantity of agricultural residue that could be sustainably removed for bioenergy production at the regional and national scale faced a number of computational limitations. These limitations included ...

The Agricultural Basic Act, enacted in Japan in 1961, set a policy agenda of altering the course of the Japanese farm sector over the following several decades (National Chamber of Agriculture, 1961). One of the most important concepts articulated in the Act is the transformation of the agricultural product mix : Article 2 stipulates that the government should implement appropriate measures to ...

Strategies and best practices for the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops need to be developed and implemented with the participation of farmers and other stakeholders. According to the principle of 'subsidiarity', decisions should be made by the lowest authority possible. When applying this concept to the case of GM crops, the affected society should determine their use and management in a reg...

Title of Dissertation: SELF-REGULATION, PRODUCTIVITY, AND NON-LINEAR PRICING. THREE ESSAYS ON QUALITY PRODUCTION IN AGRICULTURAL MARKETS Angelo M. Zago, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Robert G. Chambers Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics In this dissertation I analyze the quality choices of a group of producers. In the first essay I use mechanism d...

the process of globalization is changing the world economically, politicaly, socially and culturally. globalization in the general sense is the greater integration of the national economies in the world and it is a much discussed phenomenon. greater integration has many effects on the structure of production in national economies, the roleof multinational corporation and foreign direct investme...

due to the being in the desert bar and ecosystem sensitivity to water , water management in the agricultural sector of the iran is one of the priorities of managers and planners of this section. therefore accurate modeling of the production function, for policies to increase efficiency and reduce the use of inputs, as well as forecasts for the timely supply with low cost, is of utmost importanc...