This article has no abstract. DOI: 10.18502/jfqhc.9.3.11148

Declines in bird populations in agricultural regions of North America and Europe have been attributed to agricultural industrialization, increases in use of agrochemical application, and increased predation related to habitat modification. Based on count data compiled from Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) from 1974 to 2012, Christmas Bird Count (CBC) collected from 1914 to 2013, and hunter data from ...

the purpose of this study was to identify challenges and problems of agricultural graduates' unemployment as well as to find available solutions for this problem. required information has been collected through quantitative-qualitative methodologies using both questionnaire and interview tools. the validity of the questionnaire was verified by professors majoring in agriculture. reliabilit...

Entrepreneurship courses had a tremendous potential to improve the knowledge and skills of thestudents in Agricultural Applied-Scientific Education Centers (AASECs) to make a business aftergraduating. This study was designed to analyze barriers of entrepreneurship education coursesdelivering in AASECs in Fars Province. The population of the study consisted of all 1018 students infour AASECs in ...

Along with greatly shaking up the confidence in producers and distributors, the problems, such as BSE and avian influenza, which are threatening the safety of agricultural products occurring one after another, have suddenly increased our the awareness of “food safety” as consumers. On the other hand, even though Japanese agriculture is facing internal and external problems such as the depressio...

ABSTRACT-Due to the important role productivity plays in future decision making and programming, the productivity indexes should have accurate quantities. In this study, Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) and Genetic Algorithm (GA) methods are applied to time series of 1978-2008 to accurately measure total factor productivity (TFP) in the agricultural sector of Iran. The comparison of these...

Irrigation water management is crucial for agricultural production and livelihood security in many regions and countries throughout the world. Over the past decades, controversial and conflictladen water-allocation issues among competing municipal, industrial and agricultural interests have raised increasing concerns. Particularly, growing population, varying natural conditions and shrinking wa...