With the decreasing trend in rice consumption in Japan, breeding for new types of rice plant, which is a major responsibility of breeders has also become a political issue. The need for restoring Japanese agriculture and maintaining self-sufficiency in rice production has always been tightly linked to economic partnership agreements and trade liberalization. As a result, rice production has bee...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the advantages and disadvantages of Participatory Plant Breeding (PPB). Seventy-six breeders were randomly selected from among 95 breeders who were working at the Seed and Plant Improvement Institute, Karaj, Iran. Data were collected by a questionnaire as the main data collection instrument. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was appr...

Breeding livestock that are better able to withstand the onslaught of endemic- and exotic pathogens is high on the wish list of breeders and farmers world-wide. However, the defense systems in both pathogens and their hosts are complex and the degree of genetic variation in resistance and tolerance will depend on the trade-offs that they impose on host fitness as well as their life-histories. T...

Traditional mixed livestock cereal- and pasture-based sheep farming systems in Europe are threatened by intensification and specialisation processes. However, the intensification process does not always yield improved economic results or efficiency. This study involved a group of farmers that raised an autochthonous sheep breed (Ojinegra de Teruel) in an unfavourable area of North-East Spain. T...

reproductive age.3 However, other empirical evidence has indicated that state abortion restrictions have no such impact.4 The relationship between state-level abortion policies and birthrates is even murkier. Since the birthrate is the product of the pregnancy rate and the ratio of births to pregnancies, state abortion policies may affect birthrates by influencing one or both of these factors. ...

Advanced single-cell analysis technologies (e.g., mass cytometry) that help in multiplexing cellular measurements in limited-volume primary samples are critical in bridging discovery efforts to successful drug approval. Mass cytometry is the state-of-the-art technology in multiparametric single-cell analysis. Mass cytometers (also known as cytometry by time-of-flight or CyTOF) combine the cellu...

Community Service Activities are a collaborative activity between the PKM team of Faculty Agriculture Unkhair and Partners, namely FeedLot livestock group in Susupu Village, Sahu District, West Halmahera Regency. The problem with partners is that they do not know about feed processing technology. purpose this service to build an independent farmer community, increase knowledge residents how mak...

This study aims to describe how the patron-client social interaction or relationship between owner and buffalo caretakers in Gampong Gunong Mata Ie, Aceh Barat Regency. uses theory of James Scott using descriptive qualitative research methods with data collection techniques such as observation techniques, in-depth interviews. The results this are a form exchange patron client mawah keubeu: a) m...

The purpose of this study is to identify pathological findings among pigeon breeders in the Salonica area. Fifty-four volunteer breeders with varying intensity of contact with pigeons participated in the study. All the breeders, after filling in a questionnaire that included questions about the existence of conjunctivitis, rhinitis, chronic cough and sputum, were subjected to clinical examinati...