Sustaining and enhancing agriculture productivity has been recognized as one of the key pathways of reducing and eliminating hunger, poverty and malnutrition. Agricultural sector is regarded as the key component of the economies of many developing nations, including India. Globally, agriculture accounts for a large share of GDP, it employs a significant proportion of the labour force, represent...

The advent of biotechnology-derived, herbicide-resistant crops has revolutionized farming practices in many countries. Facile, highly effective, environmentally sound, and profitable weed control methods have been rapidly adopted by crop producers who value the benefits associated with biotechnology-derived weed management traits. But a rapid rise in the populations of several troublesome weeds...

This paper analyzes the agricultural economy organizations appeared in recent years in the industry structure of agriculture and their current conditions and functions and explores the problems existing in the development of economy organizations for agricultural cooperation, based on which the authors of this paper puts forward strategies to push the sound development of economy organizations ...

Any information system for precision agriculture is significantly dependent on its data model, i.e. how data is stored, managed and accessed. Most of these information systems deal with data in the proprietary structure that fits the most to the purposes of each organisation and/or individual. The data is commonly in a proprietary structure even if there is a standardized exchangeable format us...

gies borne of the information age with a mature agricultural industry. It is an integrated crop management system that attempts to match the kind and amount of inputs with the actual crop needs for small areas within a farm field. This goal is not new, but new technologies now available allow the concept of precision agriculture to be realized in a practical production setting. Precision agricu...

The construction and service of urban infrastructure systems and buildings involves immense resource consumption. Cities are responsible for the largest component of global energy, water, and food consumption as well as related sewage and organic waste production. Due to ongoing global urbanization, in which the largest sector of the global population lives in cities which are already built, gl...

A campaign of mis-information and dis-information ‘Sound science’ to the rescue Broken promises and corporate monopoly Corporate agriculture, GM seed patents and hunger Hazards of GM crops now acknowledged The technology is crude and inherently hazardous, the science fundamentally flawed What do you get when you cross a spider with a goat? The Pusztai affair and risk assessment based on ‘sound ...

The interest in re-implementing agroforestry (AF) European agriculture due to its environmental benefits has been growing exponentially. We reviewed the historical background and current state (extent, farmers’ perception, legislative support, barriers) evaluate future perspectives of AF Czechia by identifying key factors hampering further extension. Our results confirmed that almost disappeare...

The practice of environmental impact assessment (EIA) in the planning processes of infrastructure projects has created significant awareness in many parts of the world on the benefits of environmentally sound and sustainable urban development. In the Philippines, the construction of structural flood mitigation measures (SFMMs) gets high priority from the national government to immediately addre...