Farming is an important and key factor for the economy of developing countries. Since last several years, farmers once again welcomed many traditional farming systems to get crop yield for completion of food requirement. Although, traditional techniques are not much sufficient in new agriculture world because farming is getting new challenges from biotic and abiotic factors. New techniques and ...

This study intense to identify attributes characterizing traditional farming over modern binary logistic rig-ration suggest that the silent characters were techniques of cultivation, seed used machinery used, tissue culture plants, genetically modified crops, Biofertilizers, govt. policy, and organic farming. The implication was discovered.

The present practice of traditional slash-and-burn agriculture (locally called jhum kheti) by the ethnic Noctes in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh, India is a part of history of rural landscapes. Even today, the local jhumias totally depends on this traditional farming system for their livelihood. Nonetheless, it is time and again considered as ‘traditional’ and firm in contrast to modern m...

1 Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lueneburg, 21335 Lueneburg, Germany 2 Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania 3 Babeş-Bolyai University, Department of Taxonomy and Ecology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania 4 Geography Department, Humboldt-University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany 5 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, P.O. Box 601203...

Freshwater turtles are being exploited for meat, eggs, traditional medicine, and pet trade. As a response, turtle farming became a booming aquaculture industry in the past two decades, specifically in the southeastern states of the United States of America (US) and across Southeast Asia. However, US turtle farms are currently producing turtles only for the pet trade while commercial trappers re...

BACKGROUND Grassland degradation caused by overgrazing poses a threat to both animal husbandry and environmental sustainability in most semi-arid areas especially north China. Although the Chinese Government has made huge efforts to restore degraded grasslands, a considerable attempt has unfortunately failed due to an inadequate consideration of economic benefits to local communities. METHODO...