The emergy evaluation of the Ladakh socio-economic system and traditional agriculture is presented. Ladakh is a region of West Himalaya (State of Jammu and Kashmir, northern India), geographically classified as “high cold desert” (altitude ranging from 2300 m to 7672 m a.s.l.), located among the Karakoram Range, the Himalayan Range and the Tibetan Plateau. The region is poor in natural resource...

(CASNR) dates back to 1869 when the university was designated as Tennessee’s federal land-grant institution. Under terms of the Federal Land-Grant Act, the university was enabled for the first time to offer instruction in agriculture. Later, federal legislation provided resources for agricultural research and extension programming for dissemination of research findings to the people of Tennesse...

To meet the growing demands under the constrains of depleting natural resources, environmental fluctuation and increased risk of epidemic outbreak, the task of increasing wheat production has become daunting. The euphoria generated by first green revolution is very quickly subsiding and the second generation problems are becoming more intense with each passing year. The factors responsible for ...

Ensuring an adequate and safe food supply for a rapidly expanding world population, succeeding in a global economy, and maintaining our planet’s natural resources and biodiversity are some of the challenges that are being met by graduates from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Our students apply knowledge to solve problems as scientists, business leaders, engineers, educators, physi...

Birgit Puschner 1,2*, Steven Gallego2, Elizabeth Tor2, Dennis Wilson3, Dirk Holstege4 and Frank Galey5 1Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA 2California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA 3California Department of Food and Agriculture, Ani...