Similarly, at the beginning of NAFGEN, the Canadian hemp industry was in its 10 year of commercial growth and had developed into a $20 million dollar industry. Most of the commercial growth to date had been driven by the vigorous seed sector, fuelled by demand in the health food and body care products sector. NAFGEN’s vision included laying the ground work for establishing value-added hemp fibr...

Salinization of agricultural areas due to intensive practices and irrigation is an important feature limiting crop yield and productivity. Inhibition of plant growth and even plant death by salinity is due to a reduction in water availability, sodium ion accumulation and mineral imbalances. In this context, ROS will be produced in both SALT STRESS AND GLUTATHIONE-DEPENDENT ENZYME ACTIVITIES IN ...

abstract radiation, water and co2 are three major resources requirement for crops growth and development and within a wide range, increasing each of them would increase the biosphere productivity. higher usage of fossil fuels is increasing the atmospheric co2 and according to known crop physiological functions, such conditions should increase the crops production. however there is a possibility...

The water demand to meet seasonal and long-term water needs in Thessaly, central Greece, is related to historical semi-arid conditions in the region, which is the main agricultural area of the country. In this paper irrigation water requirements are assessed through the estimation and monitoring of crop evapotranspiration ETc for cotton fields in Thessaly. Remotely sensed data are used to delin...

abstract in present paper has tried to examine and investigate quality of effectiveness of monetary shocks on the growth of agricultural sector by using time series dataes of iran economy during 1960-2006 , filter hodric-prescott method and liner regressive models. the resultes show that qualily of effectiveness monetary shocks on growth of agricultural sector is asymmetric and length of effect...

Environmental changes are likely to affect agricultural production over the next 20-30 years. The interactions between environmental change, agricultural yields and crop quality, and the critical pathways to future diets and health outcomes remain largely undefined. There are currently no quantitative models to test the impact of multiple environmental changes on nutrition and health outcomes. ...

This study is carried out to estimate the potential evapotranspiration (PET) and crop coefficient (Kc) for Wheat, BL 3235 variety. A lysimeter is installed to estimate PET at the experimental farm of Agricultural Research Center of Bhairahawa, which is located in western part of Nepal. The Blaney-Criddle formula is used to estimate the Kc for wheat. The estimated values of PET and Kc for wheat ...

Spatial and temporal monitoring of agricultural crop is one of the important aspects for the agricultural production estimation for India. Among the various remote sensing tools, role of polarimetric SAR is being evaluated for the assessment of its utility in providing improved information. In view of importance of polarimetric techniques, it is necessary to understand the role of polarimetric ...

National Maize Improvement Center of China, Beijing Key Laboratory of Crop Genetic Improvement, MOE Key Laboratory of Crop Heterosis and Utilization (X.C., H.S., Z.D., W.J.), and Department of Vegetable Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Growth and Developmental Regulation for Protected Vegetable Crops (S.Y.), China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China; State Key Laboratory of Plant ...

tial for plant growth. Its functions cannot be performed by any other nutrient, and an adequate supply of P is required for optimum growth and reproduction. Phosphorus is classified as a major nutrient, meaning that it is frequently deficient for crop production and is required by crops in relatively large amounts. The total P concentration in agricultural crops generally varies from 0.1 to 0.5...