Agricultural pollutant runoff is a major source of water contamination in California’s Sacramento River watershed where 8500 km of agricultural land influences water quality. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) hydrology, sediment, nitrate and pesticide transport components were assessed for the Sacramento River watershed. To represent flood conveyance in the area, the model was improved ...

We thank Castellano and David for their insightful comments (1) on our paper (2), in which they point out that short-term changes in land use and agricultural management can lead to rapid reductions in nitrate leaching from agricultural systems. We fully agree with Castellano and David that in diversified cropping systems, this N distribution may be different, potentially resulting in reduced n...

Information communication technology is the key to agricultural development if least developed countries (LDCs) are to optimize agricultural management (Di Bella, 2004). Many systems have been developed that collect vast amount of vital electronic data, perform data analysis and disseminate information. However, due to limited accessibility to these ICTs, LDCs still lag behind in exploiting tec...

Institutionalization of Water Users’ Cooperatives (WUAS) is one of the strategies for cooperative irrigation management, which lays the foundation for the participation of farmers in tackling water shortage challenge to reach the objectives of sustainable management of agricultural water in an efficient manner. The main purpose of the present study was to identify the grounds for improving WUAs...

Given the role that knowledge management can play consistently on the changes and the need to develop human resources in the implementation of knowledge management on the one hand and important position of cooperative sector In country economics, on the other hand, led to that the researchers study the relationship between knowledge management and human resource performance of the agricultural ...

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...

The impact of agricultural practices and soil management on the communities of arthropods living in the agricultural landscape is acknowledged as a critical issue by the literature, and it needs to be better investigated to improve the ecological sustainability of agriculture. In the present study, we aimed to study how soil management affect carabid species distribution in one of the most typi...

the aim of this paper was to study knowledge intensive entrepreneurship role in innovative performance in agricultural technology management by entrepreneurial r&d; definition implementing as a casual-effect research by using casual model. statistical population of the study was consisted of 2768 agricultural research specialists in iran, one out of each six regional groups of provinces (n= 25)...

The article carries out an epistemological analysis of the author's interpretations essence marketing management according to selected conceptual approaches, which has made it possible establish that set such a complex economic category is different, depends on main components system, in certain period time form its influence activities agricultural enterprises. subject, purpose, tasks, functio...

At present the government performance evaluation has already become popular in all fields of government performance management. It contributes a lot to the construction of service-oriented government. However, the quantitative evaluation on government performance is far different from each other in practice. This paper tends to explore the development trend of quantitative evaluation on agricul...