Agriculture sector plays very crucial role in the economic growth of India. For sustaining its further growth, supply chain of agriculture sector needs to be strengthened. Agriculture sector is facing lot of challenges due to poor infrastructure, unorganised retail market, poor adoption of modern technology and overall inefficient supply chain. There is strong need to develop linkages between f...

Like in many other domains, the agriculture does not stop undergoing changes and getting modernized. Now, modern agriculture needs more and more data: for the traceability, for the farm management, for the inventory of the practices... Rather logically and rather quickly, the Data Acquisition was associated to the GPS localization system. But now, the integration of the Wireless Technologies in...

Modern agriculture is heavily dependent on fossil resources. Both direct energy use for crop management and indirect energy use for fertilizers, pesticides and machinery production have contributed to the major increases in food production seen since the 1960s. However, the relationship between energy inputs and yields is not linear. Low-energy inputs can lead to lower yields and perversely to ...

The Inaugural Conference on "Healthy Agriculture, Healthy Nutrition, Healthy People" of the World Council on Genetics, Nutrition and Fitness for Health was held at Ancient Olympia, Greece on October 5–8, 2010. The focus of the Conference was on the evolutionary aspects of diet throughout the life cycle in terms of genetic predisposition, health, disease prevention and sedentary lifestyles; the ...

Precision agriculture is the developing trend of modern agriculture, and the rational utilization of fertilizer is one of the key technologies in the precision agriculture, which needs to fertilize variably according to the crop needs and soil fertility conditions. Thus a fertilizer automated proportioning equipment is developed to Proportion the three fertilizers: Nitrogen fertilizer, Phosphor...

transformation. Structural transformation is the reallocation of economic activity across the broad sectors of agriculture, manufacturing, and services that accompanies the process of modern economic growth. Long-term evidence from developed countries indicates two stages of structural transformation: labor moves (i) out of agriculture into manufacturing and services and then (ii) out of both a...

Internet of things is an important part of a new generation of information technology and it is a big step towards modern informationization for modern agriculture for us to introduce and apply the Internet of Things technology in agriculture which will lead the development of intelligent agriculture. In order to optimize the agricultural production control ability, realize automatic production...

There are two competing approaches sustainability in agriculture. One stresses a strict economic approach in which market forces should be allowed to guide the activities of agricultural producers. The other advocates the need to balance economic with environmental and social objectives, even to the point of reducing profitability. This paper shows how the writings of the 18 century moral philo...

Modern agriculture is increas­ ingly under attack by critics who blame the industry’s specialization and concentration for a number of societal problems, from global warming to rising health care costs. The critics contend that today’s industrial agriculture is too dependent on fossil fuel, and too eager to ply consumers with cheap but nutritionally bankrupt calories. Among the critics, locavor...

mKRISHI platform which provide best agriculture methodology and practices to the farmer which will satisfy all needs of Farmer using ICT (Information and Communication Technology). Using modern ICT platform, Agriculture field will establish better market to customers that will give more assurance of food safety and there quality. This project is going to develop to improve quality of food mater...