mass generation of bagasse wastes from every 100 kg of sago starch pith being processed are likely to pollute the water when they are discarded into rivers. the increase of livestock production increases manure production and improper management of these manures will pollute the soil and environment, and causing diseases outbreak. co-composting of sago bagasse and chicken manure could serve as ...

within the broader category of rural tourism, agrotourism is a type of tourism carried out in avery specific environment, mixed livestock and tillage farms. its importance resides in the fact that it offers the possibility of complementing the income generated by the farm with income generated from tourism while at the same time carrying out an activity that promotes the conservation of nature....

The objective of the present study was to financially compare chemical and agricultural management methods of rice blast disease, as a prevalent disease in paddy fields of Langerood in Guilan Province, Iran. Thirty-three rice experts and 373 paddy farmers were selected by random sampling procedures. Data were collected by a research made questionnaire and were analyzed by SPSS. Benefit Cost Rat...

Combining Spatiotemporal Corridor Design for Reindeer Migration with Harvest Scheduling in Northern Sweden Rachel St John1, Karin Öhman2, Sándor F. Tóth3, Per Sandström4, Anu Korosuo5, Ljusk Ola Eriksson6 1(Corresponding Author) Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, United States, [email protected] 2Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish Universit...

Recent developments in aerospace survey technology, modelling of crop production processes, and geographic information systems have created promising opportunities for agricultural resource management. One of the potential fields of application is in the agricultural risk management, in particular in assessing the impacts of natural hazards on agricultural productions. This seems to be the bott...

1Research plant pathologist, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, CA 93648; 2formerly Research soil scientist, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, currently Extension specialist, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; and 3formerly Agricultural engineer, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center...

In order to guarantee high-quality agricultural products and food safety, efforts must be made to manage and maintain healthy agricultural environments under the myriad of risks that they face. Three central system components of sustainable agricultural management schemes are real-time monitoring, decision-making, and remote access. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) systems are a ...

Xinjiang is located on the northwest border of China, which is an important agricultural production and export base. In order to establish integrated management of agricultural products and service information system, China put forward the "Golden Agriculture Project" program in 1994, whose construction development is still insufficient because of the backward informatization level in Xinjiang....

As China enlarged the investment in agriculture, the agricultural scientific instruments promoted rapidly. It required us to face the questions scientifically such as the procurement, management, resources sharing, evaluation and etc. in agricultural scientific instruments. Because of the lack of unified classification and code standards, it greatly limited the scientific procurement, efficient...

Currently Chinese agriculture is facing a serious challenge of the natural risk, market risk and information risk, etc. At the same time, agricultural risk management is under the constraints of concept, capital investment, information sharing, and legal conditions. From the perspective of the information integrated services, this paper made efforts to provide some information and strategy supp...