Soil moisture is an important property for agriculture, but currently commercialized soil moisture sensors are too expensive for many farmers. The objective of this study is to develop a low-cost soil moisture sensor using capacitors on a film substrate and a capacitive touch integrated circuit. The performance of the sensor was evaluated in two field experiments: a grape field and a mizuna gre...

High yielding crop production technologies became available for farmers in irrigated favorable agricultural ecosystems from 1960’s known as Green Revolution, while 77% of world arable land (~1,086Mha in 2014, FAOSTAT) is estimated without irrigation and prone to water shortage or drought (a disaster from a shortage of rainfall and available water on agriculture and other human lives). Greater d...

BACKGROUND Food and nutrition security in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo are threatened by political instability and chronic poverty. The Jenga Jamaa II project, implemented between 2011 and 2016 in South Kivu Province, aimed to improve household food security and child nutritional status using various intervention strategies, including farmer field school (FFS) programs. OBJECTIVE ...

The aim of this study was to gain insight into potential differences in risk factors for microbial contamination in greenhouse versus open field lettuce production. Information was collected on sources, testing, and monitoring and if applicable, treatment of irrigation and harvest rinsing water. These data were combined with results of analysis on the levels of Escherichia coli as a fecal indic...

Group dynamics features are important factors for improving farmers’ socio-economic status. This study focused on the effect of group dynamics features on the socio-economic status of cocoa farmers in Ogun State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 93 cocoa farmers for the study. Descriptive statistics and linear regression were used to analyze the data. Results showed ...

The WSN(Wireless Sensor Networks) technology is one of the important technologies to implement the ubiquitous society, and it could make many changes in the existing agricultural environment including livestock rearing, cultivation and harvest of agricultural products if such a WSN technology is applied to the agricultural sector. This study attempts to establish ubiquitous agricultural environ...

The security of pairing-based cryptosystems depends on the difficulty of the discrete logarithm problem (DLP) over certain types of finite fields. One of the most efficient algorithms for computing a pairing is the ηT pairing over supersingular curves on finite fields whose characteristic is 3. Indeed many high-speed implementations of this pairing have been reported, and it is an attractive ca...

The Farmer Field School is a season-long training for farmers involving participatory activities and interactive learning with the doctrine of integrated pest management agroecosystem analysis. It has become popular education extension approach worldwide. This study tried to evaluate FFS as vehicle sustainable agriculture which economic viability, ecological soundness, social acceptability. aim...

Farmer producer organization (FPOs) is egalitarian farming association that registered as an institution under various legal act like Company Act, Co-operative Society Trust etc. The aggregation of marginal, small and landless farmers FPOs has helped increase market linkages to improve farmers’ income economic strength. It provides end-to-end services support the covers marketing, technical ser...

The global agricultural economy is changing. Commodity prices are declining, and producers increasingly supply complex value chains. There is growing interest in how farmers can benefit from emerging market opportunities. Farmers are encouraged to produce high value crops and engage in value-adding activities such as agro-processing. Farmer organization and collective action are often seen as k...