Livestock is considered central component in agricultural sector of Pakistan, provides employment to more than 8 million families. Meat and meat products holds pivotal significance in meeting dietary requirements serving as major protein source and provide essential vitamins and minerals. Globally, consumer demand is increasing for healthy, hygienic and safe meat and meat products due to growin...

Hydrogen is a valuable gas as a clean energy source and as feedstock for some industries. Therefore, demand on hydrogen production has increased considerably in recent years. Electrolysis of water, steam reforming of hydrocarbons and auto-thermal processes are well-known methods for hydrogen gas production, but not cost-effective due to high energy requirements. Biological production of hydroge...

The meat processing industry is one of the largest consumers of total freshwater used in the agricultural and livestock industry worldwide. Meat processing plants (MPPs) produce large amounts of slaughterhouse wastewater (SWW) because of the slaugh‐ tering process and cleaning of facilities. SWWs need significant treatment for a sustainable and safe discharge to the environment due to the high ...

Taking a food supply chain approach, this paper examines the regulation of food marketing and nutrition labelling as strategies to help combat obesity in China in an era of rapid agro-food industry growth. China is the largest food producer and consumer in the world. Since the early 1980s, the agro-food industry has undergone phenomenal expansion throughout the food supply chain, from agricultu...

The principal global manufacturers of agricultural products are: on the American continent: USA, Canada, Brazil, Mexico; European France, Germany, Italy, Belgium; in Asia and Australia: China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Australia. Due to its large areas farmland arable land, Russia also occupies a leading position manufacture main types products, both crop animal husbandry. is second...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the status of agricultural awareness efforts in elementary grades (K through 6) in a selected seven county area in east central Iowa. The two objectives of this study were: (I) To identify elementary school teachers ' perceptions regarding the agricultural industry, the integration of agriculture into the elementary curriculum and the need for agricultur...

Private sector research and development (R&D) in food processing has seen a growing share of agricultural R&D. This paper analyzes market and technological links between farmer-entrepreneurs and food processing firms. It is shown that processing sector R&D tends to display explosive cycles. To avoid explosive cycles, the processing sector sets the R&D growth path and its target. Dynamic adjustm...

There is much debate on the size and importance of agriculture in Hawaii’s economy. Estimates of agriculture’s contributions vary significantly, depending on what is defined as “agriculture” and on the methodol­ ogy used to develop those estimates. In this publication, we examine four methods of estimating agriculture’s eco­ nomic activity. First, the most common measure used historically in Ha...