Intercropping constitutes the traditional farming system practice used in various forms for maize production Yucatan peninsula. Although practiced centuries, problems persist with competition water, nutrients and light between crop species systems. Furthermore, little is known about farmers’ perceptions regarding changes to maize-legume intercropping systems their interest novel adoption increa...

Factory farming continues to grow around the world as a low-cost way of producing animal products for human consumption. However, many of the practices associated with intensive animal farming have been criticized by public health professionals and animal welfare advocates. The aim of this essay is to raise three independent moral concerns with factory farming, and to explain why the practices ...

This review paper attempts to bring together different issues in the light of recent developments in organic farming. The after effects of green revolution have encouraged the farmers to take up organic farming. This paper has reviewed the global and Indian scenario with reference to organic farming. In India, the cultivated land under certification is 2.8 Mha only. The key issues emerging in o...

During the last five decades, traditional 14C dating techniques have made numerous contributions to the archaeology of the Old World. These are evidenced in a vast literature that reports and discusses the evolution of social and cultural entities recorded from over the last 40,000 years. Terminologies may vary across Eurasia and Africa, but in the most encompassing definitions, this is a world...

In various applications of land vehicle navigation and automatic guidance systems, Global Navigation Satellite System/Inertial Measurement Unit (GNSS/IMU) positioning performance crucially depends on the attitude determination accuracy affected by gyro and accelerometer bias instabilities. Traditional bias estimation approaches based on the Kalman filter suffer from implementation complexity an...

________________________________________________________________________ We assess whether bank branch placement in Bangladesh responds to any unexploited potential for non-farm rural development. The location choices of the famous Grameen Bank are compared to those of more traditional banks. We allow for heterogeneity in household characteristics conducive to success in non-farm activities whe...

California’s dairies are the leading confined animal industry in the state. A majority of these family-owned dairies with an average herd-size of nearly 1,000 animal units are located in low-relief valleys and basins. Little is known about the impact of traditional and proposed dairy farming practices on water quality in the extensive alluvial aquifers underlying these basins. We have recently ...