Agricultural resource management is one of important technologies in agricultural application. The new technology, geo-referenced spatial multimedia has revolutionized the data collection, storage, management and display for agricultural resource management. This paper presents geo-referenced spatial multimedia technology including the system architecture, data collection procedures and data pr...

Before the economic reform, or “Doi moi”, the north-western uplands of Vietnam, which are characterized by a complicated terrain and a high cultural diversity, were affected by high illiteracy rates, severe environmental degradation, and poor infrastructural facilities. The livelihoods of the rural upland communities were maintained through a combination of hillside swidden agriculture with low...

Nowadays, agricultural R&D provides new and developed technologies to create modern agricultural producing methods. During recent years, improving agricultural productivity is affected by not only domestic R&D investments but also foreign countries R&D investments. Nowadays, according to new growth models, R&D is the base of productivity. Recent economic theories consider agricultural research ...

Issues concerning agriculture, countryside and farmers have been always hindering China’s development. The only solution to these three problems is agricultural modernization. However, China's agriculture is far from modernized. The introduction of cloud computing and internet of things into agricultural modernization will probably solve the problem. Based on major features of cloud computing a...

Despite the advances made in various new technologies, application of these technologies for agriculture still remains a formidable task, as it involves integration of diverse domains for monitoring the different process involved in agricultural management. Advances in ambient intelligence technology represents one of the most powerful technology for increasing the yield of agricultural crops a...

(Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing 100081) [email protected] Abstracts: This system has, by the comprehensive use of various latest information technologies and active gateway technologies, linked the wireless communication network, fixed-line telephone network and the Internet network (Three Networks) together to real...

Agricultural needs in poor, tropical countries differ significantly from those in temperate, rich countries. Yet little agricultural research is performed on products for the tropics. Private sector research is particularly concentrated in rich countries. This is a result of significant failures in the market for R&D, in particular, the difficulty of preventing the resale of seed in developing ...

National agricultural extension and advisory systems have undergone major changes during the past two decades. These changes have been attributed to the success of the Green Revolution, commercialisation of agriculture and trade liberalization. In addition, transnational corporations develop a wide range of new technologies, which directly impact on agricultural production in developed and deve...

Public agricultural research in the United States is conducted by state agricultural experiment stations (SAES) and by the research agencies of the USDA. Both have research activities in every state. A vast amount of research and experiments has shown that the performance of plants and to a lesser extent animals, in which new technologies are frequently embodied, is altered by local geoclimatic...

This study investigates multi-dimensional impacts of adopting new technology in agriculture at the farm/village and watershed scale in sub-Saharan Africa using the Integrated Decision Support System (IDSS). Application of IDSS as an integrated modeling tool helps solve complex issues in agricultural systems by simultaneously assessing production, environmental, economic, and nutritional consequ...