Rainfed lowland rice production in lower Northeast Thailand is a complex and adaptive farming activity. Complexity arises from interconnections between multiple and intertwined processes, affected by harsh climatic and soil conditions, cropping practices and labor migrations. Having faced a spatially heterogeneous and dynamic environment for centuries, local rice farmers are very adaptive and a...

Floods are a dangerous threat and an implicit risk for farming communities in rural floodplains of the Mekong Delta (MD). The Vietnamese government decided the dyke system construction to control floods and ensure safety for life and livelihood of flood affected communities. The case study of this dissertation refers to Can Tho city, an average floodplain community of the MD, covering also 9 di...

In this poster we present an approach to responding to complex questions in the agriculture domain, from specifications given by experts. We present in particular a semantic annotation procedure that would allow us to define accurate and domain dedicated forms of lexical semantics inference, in order to be able to match non factoid questions (i.e. questions whose response is a significant text ...

The study was carried out to investigate the socio-economic background, knowledge, and livelihood of farmers engaged in Rice-Fish farming. Purposive sampling used select area. One hundred twenty were selected from 6 villages by proportionate random procedure. responses obtained each individual respondent using a pre-tested structured interview schedule designed for data collection. collected ta...

The Chinese rice–fish–duck symbiosis system is one of the globally important agricultural heritage systems, with a history nearly thousand years. It embodies wisdom ancestors and has huge comprehensive value, which extremely references for sustainable development agriculture. technological core lies in selection rice, fish, duck varieties coupling operation time. In process modern agriculture, ...

Owing to the increasing importance of aquaculture to compensate for the progressive worldwide reduction of natural fish and to the fact that several fish farming plants often suffer from heavy financial losses due to the development of infections caused by microbial pathogens, including multidrug resistant bacteria, more environmentally-friendly strategies to control fish infections are urgentl...

Pelteobagrus fulvidraco is a freshwater fish commonly raised in rice fields, yet the optimal stocking density for this species remains unknown. Therefore, study aimed to investigate appropriate of P. integrated rice–fish farming systems. Three different densities––low (LD, 125 g/m2), middle (MD, 187.5 and high (HD, 250 g/m2)––were set up evaluate fulvidraco’s growth performance, stress indices,...

The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) has published the Rice Bibliography (RB) since 1963. IRRI had the Japan Library Office, which compiled the 1990-2000 Bibliography of Japanese Rice Research (BJRR) with the aims to provide more efficient information retrieval and bibliometrics in a specific-subject bibliographic database. We investigated the characteristics of Japanese rice resear...