the sustainability of farming system (sofs) is considered to be an important principle in a broad concept of sustainable agriculture. variables affecting sofs include alternate crop farming (using nitrogen-fixing plants as alternate crops), utilizing farm animal manure, using plants and crop residues back into the soil system, and utilizing a variety of protective plowing schemes. overuse and p...

This paper presents work on retrofitting of high-tech systems (HTS) in land-based aquaculture system for improving production efficiency. The objective is to develop architecture for an automated system for aquaculture farming. We call this development an automated expert system architecture (AESA). The article has been organized into four parts. First, it reviews the background and business op...

• Social self-organisation in shape of a cooperative has played key role the observed resilience farming system Veenkoloniën. Environmental challenges like climate change effects and nematode pressure are serious threat to starch potato farmers The social seen Veenkoloniën suggest that similar structures might help build other systems. Farming systems Europe facing economic, social, environment...

We examine the robustness of critical infrastructure networks in the face of terrorist attack, using a simulation experiment that incorporates link capacity; and an extension of data farming which we call network farming. Our results show that symmetrical designed networks generally outperform randomly generated networks, although ring-like structures are very vulnerable. Under targeted attacks...

The paper has analyzed production-related aspects of broiler farming under contract and independent management, and has examined inputs and services provision arrangements. About two-thirds of the contracts are of long duration of three years, and the remaining are of two years or eleven months duration. Surprisingly, none of the contract farmer possesses a copy of the agreement with him. The a...