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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Agriculture Production"”.
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Assessing the Potential of a Locally Adapted Conservation Agriculture Production System to Reduce Rural Poverty in Uganda's Tororo District
… assessment of a locally adapted conservation agriculture production system in Uganda's Tororo District. Using SAE, I assess the Tororo District's Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) rural poverty indices, estimate the effects of per acre farm profit increases to poor households on the district's …
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Using Qualitative Geographic Information Systems to Explore Gendered Dimensions for Conservation Agriculture Production Systems in the Philippines: A Mixed Methods Approach
… opportunities for the adoption of conservation agriculture production systems (CAPS) based on a case-study with smallholder farmers in two villages in Misamis Oriental, Philippines. It explores gendered soil knowledge and perceptions, access to resources, and agricultural practices in the …
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A stochastic simulation approach for improving response in genomic selection
… 2050.</p> <p>As the demand for food increases, agriculture production will continue to play a significant</p> <p>role. As a method to maintain and increase agriculture production, plant breeding is critical.</p> <p>To improve efficiency in the plant breeding process, an interdisciplinary effort is …
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Place d'Orleans Reinvente: A Senior-Centric Vision for a Suburban Mall
… and housing. An interior urban forest and an agriculture production complex open the mall's mass, while naturalized parking lots reactivate local marshlands and their relationship to nearby housing. By considering future changes in transportation habits and parking requirements, and taking the …
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Plant Residues and Newspaper Mulch Effects on Weed Emergence And Collard Performance
Small-scale urban agriculture production has become increasingly prevalent in the United States, due to an increased availability of abandoned property and demand for locally grown products. As with most agriculture production, weed suppression is a major concern for urban growers. Mulch is ideal …
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The NGOization of Indian Agricultural Development and Implications for the Agrarian Question
… path of development, liberalizing agricultural production systems based on rural bourgeoisie and foreign interests. This path of development has led to unequal rural development and the NGOization of agricultural development. For agrarian and peasant producers in India, the liberal and …
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Factors influencing post harvest processing of fruits to add value and increase shelf life in Arumeru district
… activity of Arumeru district community is agriculture, production of fruits is one of the agricultural activities. They grow different types of fruits but a big percent of the fruits is consumed and sold fresh to the Arusha municipal market and the remaining percent perishes. The farmers …
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Agri-industrial park : strategies for transformation of Linpan countryside of Chengdu plain, China
… acquisition removes all the famers and existing agriculture elements. Millions of farmers lose their land for life support every year in China. Linpan is a typical agriculture landscape in Sichuan Plain, China. It is charactered by scattered residential settlements enclosed by trees and bamboos …
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Computer Vision Based Analysis of Broccoli for Application in a Selective Autonomous Harvester
… - food - is also improving. The majority of agriculture production in developed countries has gone from family farms to industrial operations. With the advent of large-scale farming, the automation of basic farming operations has increasingly made practical and economic sense. Broccoli, which …
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Sympatric Soil Microbe Interactions between Streptomyces and Fusarium Isolates
… compounds important to medicine and agriculture. Production of these secondary metabolites is often mediated by quorum sensing. Most <em>Streptomyces</em> research occurs in single species experiments, yet new metabolites have been discovered in interspecies co-culture experiments. …
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The economic impact of global climate and tropospheric oxone on world agricultural production
… my thesis is to analyze the economic impact on agriculture production from changes in climate and tropospheric ozone, and related policy interventions. The analysis makes use of the Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, a computable general equilibrium model of the world economy …
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Smallholder agriculture and household food and nutrition security: a study from East Hararghe, Ethiopia
… used. The findings indicated that agricultural production was mainly focused on staple food crops such as sorghum and maize, and a limited range of cash crops and animal products for sale. Nutritionally important food types such as vegetables, fruits, beans, eggs and meat were produced only by a …
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Floodplain Resource Management: An Economic Analysis of *Policy Issues in Bangladesh
… investigates the tradeoffs between floodplain agriculture and fisheries production in the Brahmaputra river basin of Bangladesh, where both sectors are simultaneously affected by floodplain development policies. Our goal is to study the impact of development policies on these two sectors and to …
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Avian breeding ecology in soybean fields: does no-till provide any benefits?
… 71% of land cover in the Midwest is in agriculture production, with row crops being the most prevalent. Most row crops have replaced grasslands, resulting in declines of their constituent bird communities. Previous research has shown that tillage regimes can affect the suitability of row …
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Infrastructure planning for drought mitigation under climate change
… based irrigation plays a significant role in agriculture production and local hydrological cycle. The model, revised from the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), simulates the dynamic response of aquifer and base flow to groundwater pumping. The physical model is used to train a statistical …
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A Market-Based Arid-Region Water Resources Planning Model: Application to the Guhai Water Distribution System, China
… China, which own a pivotal position in national agriculture production, have confronted water supplying crisis triggered by the rapid growth of local economy. The Arid Zone of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (AZN) is one of the arid regions that severely suffer from water shortage. Since 1970s, …
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Modelling climate change impacts on maize and soybean yields in Central and Eastern Provinces of Zambia
… the unfavourable impacts of climate change on agriculture production may add up significantly to the developmental challenges of ensuring food security and reducing poverty. In Zambia, climate change impact assessments on crops are mainly carried out using large spatial scale climate data, …
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The Impact of Feed Management Software on Whole-Farm Nutrient Balance on Virginia Dairy Farms
… to be taken to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus on agriculture production facilities, such as dairy farms. The impact of feed management software on whole-farm nutrient balance was studied on 18 dairy farms located in Virginia from 2006 to 2010. Nine farms began using the TMR Tracker feed management …
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The biology and management of Palmer amaranth (Amaranthus palmeri S. Wats) in Indiana
… sites of action in the U.S. and threatens agriculture production. In 2011, Palmer amaranth was identified in flood plains in two southern Indiana counties (Posey and Vanderburgh). Determining if Palmer amaranth can survive and reproduce in northern Indiana may provide insight if this weed …
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Effects of Manure Injection on Transport and Transformation of Nutrient and Antibiotics
… resistance genes in areas of high animal agriculture production, such as the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Manure injection is a new technology that incorporates manure into the soil with minimal disturbance, and management strategies that reduce manure loss from agricultural fields could …
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