To address technology impact at the household level, farms were selected in two broad agro-ecological zones, Kampala and Highland. The Kampala zone was delineated as a “new” region with a substantial milkshed that was not delineated with the Kenya agro-ecological extrapolation. Since the “Horticultural” zone and Kenya dominated the landscape where dairying occurred outside of the Kampala milksh...

T. BAWIN*, S. BOUKRAA*, F. SEYE*/***, F.N. RAHARIMALALA*/****, J.Y. ZIMMER*, F. DELVIGNE**, F. FRANCIS* *Functional and Evolutionary Entomology, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium **Bio-Industries/CWBI, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium ***Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Univer...

1. General Background for Agro-Ecology 1.1. The Field of Ecology 1.2. Specifics of Agro-Ecology 2. Environmental Resources of Food Supply 3. Environmental Constrains on Food Production 4. Loss of Biological Diversity and its Potential Impact on Food Production 4.1. General causes of Biodiversity losses 4.2 Impact on Food Production 5. Water for Agriculture and Food Production 6. Energy use in F...

in the current investigation, evaporation and transpiration potential were also estimated by means of fao penman- monteith evapotranspiration estimation method and deviation from optimum percentage (dop) technique by climatic elements (min-max temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and radiation) during at least 10 years statistical period regarding sunflower phenological conditions in kurd...

Agro-meteorological index insurance is an innovative agricultural insurance product that has solved problems of conventional agricultural insurances including excessive cost and moral hazard. Agro-meteorological index insurance has become an effective agricultural insurance scheme. This paper primarily uses meteorological data and winter wheat yield data in the Jiangsu Province for the last 35 ...

The needs and necessities of an agro automation system in large scale applications for monitoring various parameters are on a rise. The overview of all core challenges faced by the farmers can highly be overcome with the proposed 'IoT based Agro Automation System using Machine Learning Algorithms' which is established through multiple sensor fusion with the affirmation of results in a hybrid ap...

The paper examines the spatial dimension of agricultural resources mobilization through agro-based industrial infrastructure in Haryana. In order to analysis the agricultural produce mobilization through related industries, a co-efficient of correlation between five major crop-production and related number of agro-based industries has been worked out. The study is based on secondary sources of ...

Agro-biodiversity is the result of natural and human selection processes involving animal, plant, and micro-organisms in agricultural systems, and is important for determining the socioeconomic and ecological benefits that can be derived from the systems [1]. The trend of developing monoculture agricultural systems for the sake of high productivity and economic return, however, has led agro-bio...

Prototype coarse-grained stochastic parametrizations for the interaction with unresolved features of tropical convection are developed here. These coarse-grained stochastic parametrizations involve systematically derived birth/death processes with low computational overhead that allow for direct interaction of the coarse-grained dynamical variables with the smaller-scale unresolved fluctuations...

Citation: Alam MZ, Crump AR, Haque MM, Islam MS, Hossain E, Hasan SB, Hasan SB and Hossain MS (2016) Effects of Integrated Pest Management on Pest Damage and Yield Components in a Rice Agro-Ecosystem in the Barisal Region of Bangladesh. Front. Environ. Sci. 4:22. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2016.00022 Effects of Integrated Pest Management on Pest Damage and Yield Components in a Rice Agro-Ecosystem in t...