As a result of the effect climate change on food security and rural livelihoods, promotion adoption climate-smart agricultural practices have become very crucial. The role extension in decision process is an important factor. However, delivery systems most developing countries face numerous challenges that raise concerns about their ability to bring desired impact farm households’ decisions. Re...

information and communication technology (ict) is one of the emerging driving forces to disseminate the agricultural knowledge. skilled extension personnel can grab these opportunities for the diffusion of agricultural technologies to farming community. therefore, the present investigation measures e-skills among agricultural experts of krishi vigyan kendras (kvks) — farm science centers in raj...

The fugitive dust generated by agricultural harvesting machinery not only causes harm to production safety, but also affects the living environment of people in areas. This is one hot issues that have emerged green development rural areas recent years, which related safety and hygiene culture. Due lack relevant research, many researchers still considerable controversy on issue dust. Therefore, ...

iranian pistachio is one of the strategic crops within most agricultural commodities having the highest income from exports for the country and a significant share of the country's non-oil exports but the marketing and packaging technologies for this crop are at a low level in comparison with competing countries like usa. in recent years the rate of production and its exports have decreased dra...

Heavy metal remediation of aqueous streams is of special concern due to recalcitrant and persistency of heavy metals in environment. Conventional treatment technologies for the removal of these toxic heavy metals are not economical and further generate huge quantity of toxic chemical sludge. Biosorption is emerging as a potential alternative to the existing conventional technologies for the rem...

Unmanned aerial vehicles have been developed and applied to support agricultural production management. Compared with piloted aircraft, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) can focus on small crop fields at lower flight altitudes than regular aircraft to perform site-specific farm management with higher precision. They can also “fill in the gap” in locations where fixed winged or rotary winged airc...

The process of globalization has continued to generate controversy on its impact on groups that are vulnerable to poverty. In this respect, there is evidence that farmers in most developing countries are increasingly vulnerable to poverty due to a number of reasons. One possible reason could be the limited access to the technologies that assist farmers in improving their production and later in...