INTRODUCTION The grain industry (mainly maize and wheat) is the largest crop industry in South Africa under rain-fed conditions. Significant changes have taken place since deregulation in agriculture and the termination of subsidies from mid 1990s. The total area under grain has decreased by about 10% to 15% (C. Du Plessis, pers. commun. 2001) due to lower prices (based on import parity and fre...

most the agricultural products incur plenty of wastages in iran due to lack of suitable accessible markets, therefore it is understood that establishing small scale industries, specially processing industries would be a suitable way for diminishing agricultural wastes and thus promoting its development. the goal of this research was to determine the spatial factors affecting the location alloca...

Wine is indicative for ongoing globalization, it is a highly differentiated, internationally traded experience product. We chose the wine industries of Australia, California and Germany because there is sufficient variation in the regulatory, economic and technological environments to analyze the determinants of e-commerce diffusion and its impact on agricultural industries. Therefore some deve...

The report reviews studies on the costs incurred by companies in complying with food safety regulation across meat, leafy greens, almond and orange industries. The cost comparison is based on changes in average costs from surveys of companies affected by government regulations and by voluntary industry programs. The results show that the compliance costs varied across companies of different siz...

This thesis proposes the index system for the selection and evaluation of cooperation partners in the supply chain of agricultural products, and based on IL— WGA operators, the selection and evaluation is made so that the decision making process of selecting cooperation partners in the supply chain of agricultural products is verified for its scientific nature. In practical operations, many ins...

The classical electrostatic image principle for a perfectly conducting object consisting of two orthogonally intersecting spheres is revisited through vector analysis. A method for finding the image of a given charge distribution by splitting it in three virtual singlesphere problems is described. Also, a simple relation between the image charges of a given point charge is found. The method is ...

The successful development of modern agricultural industries in most regions of South Australia could not have been achieved without the discovery and correction of trace element deficiencies in crops, pastures, horticultural tree and vegetable crops, plantation forests and livestock. Over the past eight decades, the low trace element status of many SA agricultural soils has been demonstrated r...

The recycling of rural and urban organic waste materials onto agricultural land provides a challenge to the producers and end-users who both have a 'duty-of-care' to ensure the method of disposal is managed in a sustainable way. Careful management means that soil and water resources are not contaminated, the agricultural production system remains stable, and land use alternatives remain availab...

The number of nurses across the United States with expertise in agricultural health nursing is unknown, yet as many as 8,000 are needed. This article describes agricultural health content in nursing programs in the southeastern United States. Agriculture is primarily family based but ranks among the top three most hazardous industries in America. Nurses in the southeastern United States serve m...

Decolourisation of waste water has now become a major problem for the treatment plants in various industries. Many industries use synthetic dyes to colour their products such as textiles, rubber, paper, plastics, leather, cosmetic, food etc. Nearly 10-15% of synthetic textile dyes, used yearly are lost to waste streams and about 20% of these losses enter the environment through effluent from wa...