Agricultural Training Centres (ATCs) promote crop and livestock development by providing extension information to farmers and serving as models of improved crop and livestock husbandry practices. Although potato farmers in Nyandarua County were trained on potato production technologies, their average yield was ≤16 tonnes per hectare compared to the national potential of 30 tonnes. This study th...

World food and agricultural production will have to increase substantially if the demand created by the combination of growing populations and rising incomes is to be met. Large-scale improvements in technology are needed if production targets are to be reached. But now that energy is so expensive, the new agricultural techniques and technologies must be as energy-efficient as possible. Researc...

1Department of Horticultural Engineering, Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering (ATB), Potsdam, Germany 2Agro-polymer Engineering and Emerging Technologies, French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Montpellier, France 3Postharvest Technology Research Laboratory, Faculty of AgriSciences, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa 4Curtin Horticulture Research...

Nanotechnology applications in food and agriculture is in its nascent stage and over the next decade we will see increasing uses of tools and techniques developed by nanotechnology to detect carcinogenic pathogens and biosensors for improved and contamination free food and agricultural products. Here we discuss some of these applications that has a potential for wider acceptance in the field of...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Technical aspects of agricultural biotechnology at the interface with agrobiodiversity 2.1 In vitro technologies 2.2 Genetic modification and the sourcing of genes 2.3 Molecular marker technology 2.4 Genomics and beyond 2.5 The context of agricultural biotechnology 3. Agro-biodiversity as a source for biotechnological applications 4. Biotechnological tools in genetic...

A detailed retrospective of the Green Revolution, its achievement and limits in terms of agricultural productivity improvement, and its broader impact at social, environmental, and economic levels is provided. Lessons learned and the strategic insights are reviewed as the world is preparing a "redux" version of the Green Revolution with more integrative environmental and social impact combined ...

It has been shown that biomass refinery (biorefinery) with Zero Emissions perspective could convert agricultural wastes into valueadded chemicals and materials. Agricultural and plantations wastes would become as main resources for biorefinery without soil degradation and needs of additional land. Biorefinery non-farm production cycle is crucial for job generation and poverty elimination in rur...

Statistical data for agricultural policy analysis has certain unique features: a multitude of sources of very different nature; a variety of dimensional granularity; different end user requirements. The utilization of Data Warehouse technology would be valuable for overcoming the above data issues. Ιn this paper, we describe the technologies involved and the data modeling requirements, making a...