Decision making process in agriculture is fundamentally concerned with achieving integrated, productive and sustainable use of financial, biological and social capital at different levels. As our understanding and knowledge of the environmental and production resource base has improved, the need for integrated approaches to management has been more widely appreciated. The intensification of agr...

the purpose of this research was analyzing knowledge of women with household jobs agriculture toward innovation management in masjed soliman township, khouzestan province, iran. the population of this study included women with household jobs agriculture in masjed soliman township. the total number of members was 100 people. due to the low number of population, census methods were used to collec...

This paper examines livelihood diversification as a survival strategy of rural households in developing countries. Although still of central importance, farming on its own is increasingly unable to provide a sufficient means of survival in rural areas. The paper’s objectives are first, to increase awareness of livelihood diversification in approaches to rural development; second, to consider th...

Precision agriculture is defined as the observation, impact assessment, and the timely strategic response for remedy to minute variation in agricultural production [1]. Precision agriculture is applied in a wide range of agricultural activities such as crop production, dairy farming, horticulture, and forest management. Site-specific crop management (SSCM) is one important component of precisio...

Aimed on the efficiency, energy-saving, yield and pro-environment, the precision agriculture is needed to develop. Presently, the field information quick-acquisition technology has become the important topics in the international precision agriculture research fields, because that still far behind the development of other precision agriculture technologies. The technological innovations focus o...

THOMAS A. SPIES,∗††† JAY D. MILLER,† JOSEPH B. BUCHANAN,‡ JOHN F. LEHMKUHL,§ JERRY F. FRANKLIN,∗∗ SEAN P. HEALEY,†† PAUL F. HESSBURG,§ HUGH D. SAFFORD,‡‡ WARREN B. COHEN,∗ REBECCA S.H. KENNEDY,∗ ERIC E. KNAPP,§§ JAMES K. AGEE,∗∗ AND MELINDA MOEUR∗∗∗ ∗U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 3200 Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331, U.S.A. †U.S. Departmen...

Remote sensing images have been used productively for land cover identification to accurately manage and control agricultural and environmental resources. However, these images have often been interpreted interactively due to the lack of effective automated methods. We propose such a method using self-organizing maps (SOM) based spectral clustering, for agriculture management. By combining the ...

Precision farming, precision agriculture or site-specific management (SSM) is a management system where crop production practices and inputs such as seed, fertilizers and pesticides are variably applied within a field. Input rates are based on the needs for optimum production at each within-field location. Since over-application and under-application of agrochemicals are both minimized, this st...