The environmental impact of agro-export production in developing countries remains an important research topic. The political economy-inspired literature on developing country agro-exports maintains that export crops are pesticide intensive – or, more generally, environmentally destructive – while local and national market crops are less pesticide intensive, or environmentally benign. If used t...

this research through comparison study of application of ict on marketing of agricultural crops in khozestan province, evaluate the role of such factors. the study is of applied type and the method being used is descriptive- correlational. statistical population of this research is all agricultural experts of khuzestan province and using cochran’s formula , a sample size of 144 members was sele...

Consumer concern regarding possible adverse health effects of foods produced using intensive farming methods has led to considerable interest in the health benefits of organically-produced crops and animal products. There appears to be widespread perception amongst consumers that such methods result in foods of higher nutritional quality. The present review concludes that evidence that can supp...

Crop production potential (CPP) is profoundly affected by the change in climate factors (e.g., precipitation, temperature, and solar radiation) brought about change, which ultimately affects quantity yield of crops. In China, arid semi-arid regions are mainly located western occupy around 59% land area. order to identify most important climatic restricting increase CPP planting systems northwes...

The conservation of water is crucial to sustainable agricultural production in areas of low rainfall or uneven precipitation distribution. Under such circumstances, drip irrigation methods offer a useful option for economic production of vegetable crops. This preliminary study examined the efficacy and performance of two drip irrigation methods on cucumber and tomato crops grown out of season. ...

1 Introduction 2 In recent years, rising and increasingly volatile energy costs have combined with 3 growing concerns over global climate change to fuel interest in the development of carbon-4 neutral, sustainable energy sources. Throughout the U.S. and abroad, a host of policies and 5 research initiatives are in progress to address economic and technological barriers that 6 restrain the transi...

ABSTRACT Developments in meteorology over the last couple of decades have enabled significant improvements to be made in the accuracy of seasonal forecasts. This paper focuses on developing a model for cash crop planning that utilises these forecasts. It does this by determining the rate of growth of each crop as a function of heat units accumulated. This enables time to maturity to be determin...

There is no definition of globalization in a form universally accepted and perhaps not even final one. The reason is that globalization includes a multitude of complex processes, reaching different areas of society. It can be a phenomenon, an ideology, a strategy or all together. One thing is certain: globalization raises an endless polemic, progressing continuously and irreversibly generate ma...

BACKGROUND Sustainability in Agriculture In order to meet future needs of a growing human population and to achieve food security in the context of climate change, food production will likely need to increase—among other measures—while at the same time minimizing negative environmental impact (Foley et al., 2011). Sustainable intensification of agriculture (Garnett et al., 2013; Pretty and Bhar...