and forestry. To solve some of the problems in forestry and agriculture, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Saarland Ministry of Economics founded the Cooperative Agents and Integrated Services for Logistic and Electronic Trading in Forestry and Agriculture (Casa) project. The Casa project focuses on developing an agentbased information and trading network (ITN). In ...

Agricultural robotics has been a popular subject in recent years from an academic as well commercial point of view. This is because agricultural addresses critical issues such seasonal shortages manual labor, e.g., during harvest, the increasing concern regarding environmentally friendly practices. On one hand, several individual robots have already developed for specific tasks (e.g., monitorin...

the present study was conducted to investigate qualitative and quantitative aspects of irrigated wheat production in three major farming systems i.e. peasant, commercial and cooperative systems in kordestan province. accordingly, seven basic hypotheses were tested. the data were drawn from individual interviews with 360 farmers who planted wheat in 2004-2005. the sample was selected using multi...

In recent years, farming section of South Khorasan Province faces different limitations such as increasing shortage of water resources and continuous reduction of weather showers.Considering consecutive droughts and water crisis in agricultural plain of the province, it is necessary to use water resources optimally and increase productivity of water shortage input. Comparison of water productiv...

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1 Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, A.P.500030. 2 Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad. 3 Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, A.P.500030. Corresponding author:E mail: [email protected] Mobile: 09948735896 INTRODUCTION India is the second most populous coun...

In addition to obviating the use of synthetic agrochemicals and emphasizing farming in accordance with agro-ecological guidelines, organic farming acknowledges the integrity of plants as an essential element of its natural approaches to crop production. For cultivated plants, integrity refers to their inherent nature, wholeness, completeness, species-specific characteristics, and their being in...

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