The Green Revolution, through the adoption of new crop varieties, irrigation, and agrochemicals, saved about 1 billion people from famine by increasing global food production (FAO 2011). We now recognize that these enormous gains in agricultural production were accompanied by harm to agriculture’s natural resource base, jeopardizing our future ability to meet human food, fuel, and fiber needs f...

There are, however, other concerns that determine choices towards organic management. Conversion to organic agricultural systems are triggered by different objectives, such as: securing a place on international markets, export promotion, economic self-reliance, finding alternatives to decreased access to agricultural inputs, natural resource conservation, food self-sufficiency, and rural and wi...

The rise in the world demand for food poses a challenge to our ability to sustain soil fertility and sustainability. The increasing use of no-till agriculture, adopted in many areas of the world as an alternative to conventional farming, may contribute to reduce the erosion of soils and the increase in the soil carbon pool. However, the advantages of no-till agriculture are jeopardized when its...

Question: The biodiversity of mountain hay meadows has historically been maintained through traditional, low-intensity farming practices. In recent decades, however, agricultural intensification for hay production has led to dramatic declines in their biodiversity. This study asks: which management practices can contribute to maintaining the biodiversity value of mountain hay meadows without je...

The refer and policy implications of “the separation of three rights” can promote the management right of rural land transfer orderly. Based on the 486 questionnaire data of 17 cities in Shandong Province, we use Logistic model make empirical analysis on the impact of “the separation of three rights” to the management right of rural land. The results prove that the policy of “the separation of ...

This is the ®rst of two papers that elaborate an integrated drainage network analysis system (IDNAS) for agricultural drainage management. In this paper, the system components, functions and implementation are presented. The IDNAS comprises an agricultural drainage network module, an evapotranspiration (ET) module and an event-based spatio-temporal module. The network module is designed to mode...

Root biomass is one of the most relevant root parameters for studies of plant response to environmental change, soil carbon modeling or estimations of soil carbon sequestration. A major source of error in root biomass quantification of agricultural crops in the field is the presence of extraneous organic matter in soil: dead roots from previous crops, weed roots, incorporated above ground plant...

In country like India, the technology should be provided to farmers with appropriate guidance to save their crops and their lives. We focused on introducing the latest technologies such as sensors, Cloud computing to radically revise approaches to agriculture by collecting the data about the various parameters of soil, analyze the data and performed the computations, giving the best optimal sol...

J.D. Siebert and A. M. Stewart, Department of Agronomy and Environmental Management, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, 8105 Tom Bowman Drive, Alexandria, LA 71302; D. K. Miller, Northeast Research Station, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, P.O. Box 438, St. Joseph, LA 71366; C. Chism Craig, West Tennessee Experiment Station, University of Tennessee, 605 Airways Blvd....