The use of renewable resources and inputs is one of the fundamental principles of sustainable agriculture that enables maximum crop productivity and minimal environmental risk. Nutrient management may be achieved by the involvement of organic sources, bio-fertilizers, and micro-nutrients. Indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers to achieve high yield and to compensate for lack of nutrients an...

As consumers have become more health conscious, there has been greater emphasis on improving the nutritional profile of foods or being able to deliver other health benefits through foods. For example, extruded snack foods, which are mostly starch-based, high-energy, low-nutrient-dense foods have been implicated as contributing toward the higher incidence of obesity and diabetes in the U.S., are...

introduction corn has been recently used for producing ethanol fuel in the major corn-producing countries such as the us and brazil. recent diversion of corn for biofuel production along with the increased world's demand for this feedstuff has resulted in unprecedented rise in feed cost for poultry worldwide. alternative grains such as wheat and barley can be successfully replaced for corn in p...

Studying on the spatial distribution and variation characteristics of soil fertility by Application of geographical information systems (GIS) and data mining(DM), with the quantitative analysis of spatial variability of soil fertility in complexity, and provide the effective way for simulations which can be closer to the farmland soil fertility variability. At the same time, interpolation metho...

Deteriorating soil fertility and gradually decreasing rice productivity along with higher greenhouse gas emissions from paddy fields have emerged as serious threats to the sustainability of production food security. Rice in subtropical environment Bangladesh is mostly dependent on synthetic inorganic fertilizer maintain productivity; however, has negative effects global warming. Climate-smart r...