In the present work, we compared phenol content and composition of fruit from ‘Arbequina’ cultivar in four Mediterranean (in Andalucía, Southern Iberian Peninsula) two Sub-Tropical (Canary Islands) locations throughout harvest period. Two were maintained with drip irrigation, while remaining dry farming. Water availability date seemed to play more important roles than air temperature on phenoli...

RATIONALE In the last decade, due to expansion of greenhouses and irrigated farms, the use of pesticides in Ethiopia has increased 6-13-fold leading to potential health risks. OBJECTIVE To investigate if occupational exposure to pesticides is associated with respiratory health effects in farmers and farm workers from commercial farming systems. METHODS We performed two cross-sectional surve...

the growing population and increasing socio-economic necessitiescreates a pressure on land use/land cover. nowadays, land use change detection using remote sensing data provides quantitative and timely information for management and evaluation of natural resources. this study investigates the land use changes in part of hableh rood watershed of iran using landsat 7 and 8 (sensor etm+ and oli) i...

In the future the Mallee is going to be hot and dry. Farming in the Mallee is going to be very profitable sometimes, middling profitable in some years and not profitable at all at times as has always been the case. In 10 years time there will be less Mallee farmers; they will be farming a little differently to now; and most will earn a good living. The scale of operations will be greater. The r...

Irrigated crops are produced on 645,000 ha in east-central Washington and northcentral Oregon (1). Approximately 70% of this cropland is irrigated with water diverted from rivers, while water for the remaining hectares is pumped from deep wells. Much of the irrigated cropland is found in areas of less than 200 mm annual precipitation, where dryland farming is difficult or impossible. Wind erosi...

BACKGROUND Few studies have described heterogeneity in Schistosoma japonicum infection intensity, and none were done in Philippines. The purpose of this report is to describe the village-to-village variation in the prevalence of two levels of infection intensity across 50 villages of Samar Province, the Philippines. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 25 rain-fed and 25 irriga...

the growing population and increasing socio-economic necessities creates a pressure on land use/land cover. nowadays, land use change detection using remote sensing data provides quantitative and timely information for management and evaluation of natural resources. this study investigates the land use changes in part of hableh rood watershed of iran using landsat 7 and 8 (sensor etm+ and oli) ...

in order to study of variation and relationships between yield and quality traits, 14 domestic populations of bitter vetch (vicia ervilia) were collected from different parts of lorestan province and sown in two separate experiments under irrigated and dry land farming system using randomized complete block design with three replications in khorramabad, iran during 2005 and 2006. data were coll...

Napiergrass can produce large amounts of biomass and its nutritive value has a significant effect on its effectiveness for animal production. However, temperature and drought stress limit its productivity. Drought-tolerant pearl millet · napiergrass hybrid (PMN) varieties were developed and produce high biomass yields. The nutritional content and digestibility of PMN is not well known, which li...