1 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, National Horticultural Research Center, P. O. Box 01000 220, Thika. 2 Department of Botany, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 3 Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 4 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Biotechnology Cen...

Lt. Governor Peeler closed his welcoming speech at this NABC meeting by stressing the importance of family farming to South Carolina, and the fact that much more needs to be done to help save family farms. I agree. Even so, when we discuss research, technology and so on in relation to family farming, there are often clashes among differing groups because competing social values relating to the ...

China is at a critical stage of transformation from traditional to modern agriculture and its agriculture and rural economic sector faces severe challenges of shortage of natural resources, environmental degradation, agricultural disasters, sluggish income growth of farmers and widening disparity between urban and rural areas. The fundamental solution to these problems lies with the advancement...

Agricultural information technology, especially virtual reality(VR) technology, will act the important roles in agricultural modernization and realm. Computer science and IT are both playing important roles in the development of agriculture and rural areas of the world. Combining agriculture science with IT and VR, the virtual agriculture technology explored new ways of studying and applying ag...

Recent developments in aerospace survey technology, modelling of crop production processes, and geographic information systems have created promising opportunities for agricultural resource management. One of the potential fields of application is in the agricultural risk management, in particular in assessing the impacts of natural hazards on agricultural productions. This seems to be the bott...

Typical WSN(Wireless Sensor Network) applications in precision agriculture include production process management, plant growth optimization, farmland monitoring and so on. Middleware, which can connect hardware, applications, and enterprise systems, is required to construct ubiquitous agricultural environment combining WSN technology with different agricultural applications, but there have been...

Recently, people pay more and more attention to the healthy lifestyles. And there is an increasing demand for the green agricultural products in real life. With the rapid development of the computer network technology and the electronic commerce, the emergence of e-business provides a new idea to promote the service of agricultural products. A huge supply chain network is established by the new...

With rapid development of computer science, the means of the agricultural park planning are renewed continuously. Based on the long-term practice in the agricultural park planning, we put forward innovatively the integrated information processing technology in three dimensions in the paper, that is, information, time and spatial dimensions, On the basis of the coupling relation of multi-dimensi...

This paper summarizes the current main methods of heterogeneous data conversion, focuses on the necessity of establishing the data conversion specification for China’s agricultural product quantity safety, as well as specifies the main designs and solutions for data conversion structure, data conversion process and data conversion format in research. Establishing a data conversion specification...

To solve the problems of instability of agricultural robot when avoiding obstacles, a kind of navigation method which combined monocular visual navigation technology and remote monitoring technology was proposed: using the centerline method to extract the navigation path to achieve visual navigation; the monitoring center received two-way real-time image signals of the agricultural robot, when ...