Approximently 10,000 years ago, civilization began in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia around the river valleys of the Euphrates and the Tiger rivers. It was agriculture that allowed these civilizations to prosper and the river water that allowed agriculture. The number of people in the world has grown signi cantly since then increasing the demand for food production. Agriculture has been fo...

The adoption of new technology is a central feature of the transformation of farming systems during the process of economic development. There is a rich tradition of social science research, therefore, on the adoption of new technologies (Evenson and Westphal; Feder, Just and Zilberman). Much of this research has focused on the problem faced by individual farmers as they decide whether to adopt...

BACKGROUND The objective was to study the association between Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) and occupational exposures related to long held occupations among males in six provinces of Canada. METHODS A population based case-control study was conducted from 1991 to 1994. Males with newly diagnosed NHL (ICD-10) were stratified by province of residence and age group. A total of 513 incident cases...

Urban farming activity in Bandung City contains an idea of women empowerment. That is because urban has done a lot by housewife. The Government attempts to implement gender mainstreaming program the development through farming. Therefore, designed local government nowadays four women’s farmer group. One group Sa’uyunan Sarijadi. This research uses case study from Sarijadi Women’s Farmer Group B...

The Corporate farming is a form of economic cooperation from group farmers with an agribusiness orientation through consolidation expansive land management (Department Agriculture, 2000). Spirit 45 Farmers Corporation Program which located in Kel. Panrannuangku, Kec. North Polongbangkeng, Kab. Takalar has focused on rice commodities since 2018 but the field shows that implementation program not...

Cassava (Manihot utilissima) is a local food commodity that widely cultivated in Indonesia. The advantages of this plant are rich carbohydrates, long harvest range, capable producing less fertile or infertile soils. However, cassava peel waste still rarely processed into more useful products. Therefore, it necessary to make efforts increase the utilization peels innovative products by conductin...

The belief-desire-intention (BDI) model has been widely used to construct reasoning systems for complex tasks in dynamic environments. We have designed a capabilities and abilities (CA)-BDI farmer decision-making model, which is an extension of the BDI architecture and includes internal representations for farmer household Capabilities and Abilities. This model is used to explore farmer learnin...