ABSTRACT-The agricultural sector encompasses activities that are exposed to diverse risks. Risks in the agricultural sector are unavoidable but manageable. Crop insurance is a management tool in the agricultural sector. Crop insurance is a strategy to cope with the production risks of the agricultural sector and to secure farmers’ income in the future. Mango is a major horticul...

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...

The nature of the relationship between biotechnology products and the environment is highly controversial. While agricultural biotechnology has great promise for the obtaining of both more food and a higher quality environment, there is currently much anxiety as to whether this promise is an illusion. There are those who argue that there are no new nor unique hazards that accompany biotechnolog...

Agricultural pesticides (i.e., insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides) represent a threat to drinking water quality and aquatic life within agricultural streams. Many agricultural streams serve as source waters for urban drinking water supplies within the Midwestern United States. Transport of pesticides from upstream agricultural streams to downstream drinking water supplies can result in an...