it is essential to understand crop yield potentials and exploitable gaps to detect yield constraints of crops. yield gap analysis is a method to evaluate our systems distance from actual capability of a region to produce a given crop which will direct researches and help for cropping patterns design and programming. moreover, knowledge on a region capability could result in investigating on giv...

This study evaluates the watershed-scale effects of non-point-source (NPS) pollution loads caused by rice straw mulching and no-tillage applications in upland crop areas using the Hydrological Simulation Program–Fortran (HSPF) model. The study area is the Byulmi-cheon watershed (1.21 km2) of South Korea. Hourly rainfall, discharge and stream water quality data were collected for three years (20...

introduction: agricultural activities increasingly use water, fertilizers and pesticides, which may generate negative impacts on environment. nowadays, nitrogen leaching from agricultural lands is a widespread global problem. therefore, alternative land management practices such as nutrient management (rate, method and time of application), tillage operations (conservation and no-tillage), and ...

Plant diseases cause significant crop loss throughout the world. Impact on yield depends on the disease involved, the crop species grown, the management practices followed, and various environmental factors. Integrate plant disease management advocates the use of multiple control measures, including, if possible, a rational system for predicting the risk of disease outbreaks. Presently, web-bas...

Leaf area index (LAI) is a major indicator for crop growth monitoring and yield estimation. Data assimilation as an effective tool for crop LAI estimation fully considers the properties of actual observations and physical model simulations. In this work, we present a new data assimilation scheme, introducing a very fast simulated annealing (VFSA) optimization algorithm into the process of crop ...

the present paper deals with development of a simulation model for the performance evaluation of feed water system of a thermal power plant using markov birth-death process and probabilistic approach. in present paper, the feed water system consists of four subsystems. after drawing transition diagram for feed water system, differential equations are developed and then solved recursively using ...

The need to reduce the use of chemical inputs in agricultural ecosystems requires studying integrated ecological processes and developing new tools helping to manage them. In particular, designing landscape management strategies is a new way to improve the efficiency of services provided by biodiversity as biological control or pollination. Individual-based models are useful to better understan...