Recently, the burden of farm work and the occurrence of negligent accident increase with aging and feminization in rural areas in South Korea. Especially, accidents like slip or falling occur as the most frequent farm work accidents, and a half of female farmers have experienced an accident by slip. The Korea’s agricultural environment is poor with bumpy ground and slippery ground with water, w...

the Internet provides new opportunities and challenges for agricultural product marketing. B2B E-marketplace is a model of E-commerce, which has been used to trade a wide range of goods, including agricultural products. The paper attempted to analyze the benefits and critical factors of B2B e-marketplace in agriculture product marketing case study by Shandong Shouguang Vegetable Trading Market ...

A convenient, quick and cost-effective method to detect the presence of allergenic components and pathogens is one of the greatest challenges confronting the food processing industry. Biosensors are emerging as a highly promising tool for rapid diagnosis of pathogens and allergenic components in foods. Detection of contaminants, verification of product contents, product freshness and monitoring...

As regards decreasing cotton cultivation in Iran during these years, the degree of risk taken by a cotton cultivator in the agricultural part is important. The studies showed that the cotton crop yield during the past years did not have enough growth and the cotton cost product in the period of study cotton production costs, has increased. In this paper, the risk orientation of cotton cultivato...

This article examines e-marketplace adoption difficulties from a contextualist perspective. The analysis of industrial characteristics will unearth the adopter’s supply chain practices and the contextual features which are unfavorable for e-marketplace deployment. To gain a deeper understanding, this research examines an unsuccessful e-marketplace adoption for agricultural industry in China. Th...

The evidence of intra-industry trade (IIT) is one of the most important empirical findings in international trade literature, though its empirical background is poorly developed. The article contributes to the empirical literature by analysing the effects of EU accession on intra-industry trade by using the Grubel-Lloyd index. Results show that agricultural trade between Hungary and EU15 in 200...