The advancement in knowledge and technology has benefited various types of industries worldwide including the agricultural sector. developments traditional sector created a new type agronomy called, urban farming. This farming is usually done city or even housing areas apartments. concept this activity to utilise limited amounts available space for planting fruits vegetables that can grow at qu...

The evolution of agricultural economies requires two processes: 1) the domestication of plants and 2) specialization in domesticates at the expense of hunting and gathering. Yet, in the literature, domestication receives the lions share of attention while theories of specialization in domesticates lag behind. In this paper, we integrate ideas from human behavioral ecology with tools from dynami...

Five durum wheat cultivars were grown in a Mediterranean area (Southern Italy) under conventional and organic farming with the aim to evaluate agronomic, technological, sensory, and sanitary quality of grains and pasta. The cultivar Matt produced the best pasta quality under conventional cropping system, while the quality parameters evaluated were unsatisfactory under organic farming. The culti...

structural characteristics and spatial distribution of major farming systems in mountain environment of the iranian plateau as well as their developments in the past few decades have been studied by statistical analysis. using this new approach, towards the study of natural resource allocation methods in mountains of iran, the following resulted: land and resource use practices have followed a ...

This paper presents a unified framework that will facilitate the implementation of future autonomous farming systems. It describes the coordination of information flow between what is called precision autonomous farming and Precision Agriculture. Precision Agriculture aims to fulfill the agronomical needs of the crop growth. Precision autonomous farming addresses the operation, guidance and con...

Farming systems for pest control, based on the stimulo-deterrent diversionary strategy or push-pull system, have become an important target for sustainable intensification of food production. A prominent example is push-pull developed in sub-Saharan Africa using a combination of companion plants delivering semiochemicals, as plant secondary metabolites, for smallholder farming cereal production...