Crop yield data are critical for managing agricultural sustainability and assessing national food security. This study aims at increasing peanut productivity from its current levels by analyzing the gap (difference) of potential production between theoretical actual farmers’ yields. The spatial Tiruvannamalai district Tamil Nadu is examined in this investigation integrating products microwave r...

Meeting the projected global demand for food and fuel from corn systems while conserving natural resources and improving environmental quality can only be achieved by the intensification of existing corn systems. Yield analysis of the central U.S. Corn Belt indicates that there is a large exploitable yield gap for corn. Since 1999, we have been experimenting with optimizing corn management syst...

Flows of dense emulsions show many complex features among which long range nonlocal effects pose a problem for macroscopic characterization. In order to get around this problem, we study the flows of several dense emulsions, with droplet size ranging from 0.3to40microm , in a wide-gap Couette geometry. We couple macroscopic rheometric experiments and local velocity measurements through magnetic...