Many farmers in the developing world have limited access to agricultural technologies and markets. Mobile phone-enabled services that offer price information and market linkages could contribute towards bridging this gap by reducing uncertainty about expected profits, information asymmetries and market inefficiencies. This article uses the example of the price information and marketing service ...

This paper presents a scalable digital learning system that can store and provide Web access to digital contents from voluntaries, teachers, and institutions that lack resources or expertise to offer classes over the Internet. We use the server-cluster architecture as a way to create scalable and highly available solutions. However, hosting a variety of contents from different owners on such a ...

although there are remarkable differences in drivers’ behavior as well as vehicles characteristics, road capacity estimationmethods in developing countries are same as developed ones. so, the discrepancy between the theoretical andpractical values of capacity is inevitable. although, capacity estimation methods can be classified based on numerousparameters, in developing countries, the availabi...

Information gathering and processing in horticulture helps optimise control processes and can enable more precise farm management. Robotics and automation are helping make high resolution, timely, farm wide measurements for tasks such as yield estimation, crop health and soil analysis. An efficient means of storing and processing such information is to discretise it to individual trees. To auto...

This paper presents a synthesis of the main theoretical and empirical contributions that analyse production choices of farm households living and operating in developing countries. The review is particularly concerned with recent micro-economic contributions that highlight the trade-off farm households typically face, between full-income risk and expected return, while making production decisio...

To harvest the generated power, the turbines of an offshore wind farm are connected to an electrical transformer by cable routes. Typical cable layouts use two cable types distinguished by price and capacity: High capacity is expensive. This work presents a heuristic for computing near-optimal layouts based on the Clarke and Wright savings heuristic for vehicle routing, and the layouts it compu...

This paper presents a farm management information system targeting improvements in the ease of use and sustainability robot farming systems. The integrates functionalities field survey, path planning, monitoring, controlling agricultural vehicles real time. Firstly, Grabcut-based semi-supervised registration method is proposed for arable detection from orthoimage taken by drone with an RGB came...