Abstract Agriculture, as the most important strategic industry, is tasked with providing sufficient quantities of quality and safe food. Intensive often excessive, uncontrolled, unskilled use means for protection nutrition plants, well prevention or treatment animals, are carried out to increase yields in conventional production. This approach food production has contributed increasingly common...

The main goal of this project is the definition of a methodology allowing the development of hybrid software systems. Hybrid systems are those including knowledge-based components and standard information systems. Knowledge-based components try to solve problem aspects where requirements are poor structured and subjective, and there are uncertainty, incompleteness and inconsistency too. Standar...

Economists look at the entrepreneurship from the prospective of profitability, investment, risk, and insight supporting the economical development but it seems that, in modern societies, entrepreneurship`s function is beyond the economical bounds. According to the stage and importance of entrepreneurship which is known as the society’s economic and culture evolution engine, it is necessary to d...

Agricultural information technology, especially virtual reality(VR) technology, will act the important roles in agricultural modernization and realm. Computer science and IT are both playing important roles in the development of agriculture and rural areas of the world. Combining agriculture science with IT and VR, the virtual agriculture technology explored new ways of studying and applying ag...

This study aims to examine the impact of the China–ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA) on China’s international agricultural trade and its regional agricultural development, using the Global Trade Analysis Project model and the China Agricultural Decision Support System. Our analysis showed that: (i) CAFTA will improve resource allocation efficiencies for both China and ASEAN and will promote bilater...

ii CIMMYT (www.cimmyt.mx or www.cimmyt.cgiar.org) is an internationally funded, nonprofit scientific research and training organization. Headquartered in Mexico, the Center works with agricultural research institutions worldwide to improve the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of maize and wheat systems for poor farmers in developing countries. It is one of 16 similar centers supp...