In agriculture, it is required to establish and integrate food traceability systems and risk management systems in order to improve food safety in the entire food chain. The integrated traceability system for agricultural products was developed, based on innovative technology of RFID and mobile computing. In order to identify individual products on the distribution process efficiently, small RF...

a social accounting matrix (sam) was used as an analytical model to investigate the mutua/effects of export expansion in agriculture and manufacturing sectors as well as the social and economic impacts of this policy on the iranian economy. the effects of the above policies were analyzed within several scenarios including a 25 percent increase in exports of agriculture and manufacturing product...

N.R. Abdulla, T.C. Loh, H. Akit, A.Q. Sazili & H.L. Foo 1 Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 2 Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 3 Halal Products Research Institute, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia 4 Department of Biop...

Plant protection products are used in agriculture to improve yields, but this use can cause contamination of the environment and is also likely to have adverse short and long term effects on agricultural workers. This poster describes a systems approach to reducing the risk of operator exposure to plant protection products through the introduction of ergonomics to the design process of large ag...

1 Institute of Agro-products Processing Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193, China; E-Mails: [email protected] (L.S.); [email protected] (Y.Z.); [email protected] (Y.M.E.F.); [email protected] (J.C.); [email protected] (J.L.); [email protected] (J.N.S.); [email protected] (F.X.); [email protected] (L.Z.); [email protected] (Y.W.) 2 Key Labor...

Genetic engineering (GE) is the application of recombinant DNA (rDNA) technologies to living organisms to provide new products and enhance existing ones. These products of biotechnology can include insulin and other pharmaceutical and medical applications, specialty enzymes for food production from GE microbes, and GE (also called “transgenic”) crops used in agriculture. These products of rDNA ...

today, all over the word, we see the scientists, thinkers, politicians, consumers, producers and ecologists (who support the environment) pretest against the method of agriculture, because trying to increase the crop outcome to its maximum rate for hectare through the irregular use of chemical input in industrial agriculture lead to a disaster in human life which will endanger the whole life on...

Nowadays, thousands tons of chemicals material are used to increase agricultural production that provides a risky situation for the communities. Recently, biological or organic agriculture is considered to get rid of such problems. But this style of agriculture is facing with many difficulties and challenges. This study was performed in three phases by using Delphi method. In this regard, the s...

Published by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Andrew G. Hashimoto, Director/Dean, Cooperative Extension Service/CTAHR, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822. An equal opportunity/affirmative action inst...