The conservation of water is crucial to sustainable agricultural production in areas of low rainfall or uneven precipitation distribution. Under such circumstances, drip irrigation methods offer a useful option for economic production of vegetable crops. This preliminary study examined the efficacy and performance of two drip irrigation methods on cucumber and tomato crops grown out of season. ...

The aim of this study was to quantify possible differences in countermovement jump (CMJ) height, sprint performance and underlying mechanical properties as a function of time during a soccer season. Fortyfour male professional soccer players were identified in the Norwegian Olympic Federation’s test database. Each of these players had performed 40-m sprint and CMJ tests at least once within pre...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to explore the influence of participation in community-supported agriculture (CSA) on vegetable exposure, vegetable intake during and after the CSA season, and preference related to locally produced vegetables acquired directly from CSA growers. DESIGN Quantitative surveys were administered at three time points in two harvest seasons to four gr...

Vegetable production constitutes an important sub-sector of the agricultural economy of KwaZulu-Natal. Most vegetables are cultivated in mixed-cropping types of farming systems. The technical efficiency of vegetable based cropping systems was estimated in order to identify the potential increase in production without incurring additional costs. The factors affecting technical efficiency and con...

Rice production in the country is characterized by two production seasons namely, mainseason and off-season. Officially, the two production seasons data usually aggregated to form single data of domestic rice supply for the nation. This aggregation is refers to as all-season rice production. All the previous studies estimated supply equation based on the aggregated data thereby denying the oppo...

The experiment was carried out to study the impact of chilling and night break on the flowering of ornamental plants in their off-season period. Larsenianthus careyanus (Benth.) W.J. Kress & Mood is a wild potential ornamental ginger naturally growing in the evergreen forest of North Eastern states of India was selected for the current study. The rhizomes were collected and stored at 15oC for 8...

Fresh market tomato production is a $5 billion a year industry. Tomatoes are a warm season vegetable crop with large acreages grown in warm climates such as Florida and California. Tomatoes are also grown in numerous northern states earning premium prices for early production in cooler climates. Tomato production often employs plasticulture, such as the use of plastic mulches, for earliness and...

the experiment was carried out to study the impact of chilling and night break on the flowering of ornamental plants in their off-season period. larsenianthus careyanus (benth.) w.j. kress & mood is a wild potential ornamental ginger naturally growing in the evergreen forest of north eastern states of india was selected for the current study. the rhizomes were collected and stored at 15oc f...