Purpose – A significant (8-18 per cent) proportion of higher education (HE) students in the UK are hosted by colleges. The quality of college HE provision has been questioned. The purpose of this paper is to present the case studies showing an HE ethos and student scholarship in a college environment from two levels of degree, three areas of science and contexts from submission to government …
Purpose – During a period of significant crisis within HE on a global scale, there is a clear need for colleges to clearly articulate the distinct nature of their higher vocational education provision. This need is particularly acute given the current financial and political pressures impacting on a diverse HE landscape. The purpose of this paper is to argue that colleges are well placed to d…
The paper presents economic efficiency of work in the horticultural production in the selected farms which carry out the integrated production. At the average, one man-hour was paid 0.09 PLNk∙man-hour-1. Taking into consideration the use structure in the investigated objects, the intensity of production organization was determined. The production was varied (it was within the intensity range …
The purposes of this study are to explain the conditions of supply chain for organic rice product and to determine the supply chain risk order organic rice products in MUTOS Seloliman. Risk measurement is performed using fuzzy FMEA method then the risk priority level is obtained. The supply chain structure of organic rice product consist of farmers as suppliers, MUTOS as manufacturer, PT Herbal…
The splattering of raindrops is a very important factor in the spread of plant diseases from the Septoria group. The spreading mechanism of this disease via spores is observable particularly during short and violent storms. The methods used currently to forecast Septoria infection are based mainly on the climate condition and the calendar measurements, primarily taking into consideration the di…
Extremely Low Frequency Magnetic Field (ELF-MF) is non-ionizing and non-termal radiation. The previous research result was proven that prevalence death of Salmonella typhimurium in the fisiology liquid that has positive correlation with exposure intensity, but without exposure duration. The exposure of ELF 646.7 μT magnetic field during 30 minutes gives higher Salmonella death impact rather th…
The objectives were to assess vulnerability context of the Karen community and to enhance community-based natural resource management in relation to agricultural systems and food security. We facilitated key informant and focus group discussions, and conducted household interviews. In the study area of Mae Khanad watershed, the Karen’s traditional rice based farming livelihoods were threate…
The possibility of obtaining high quality wine from lees could increase value added for farm productions. A new technique introduced on an industrial scale to provide wine from lees of different origin is presented. After racking, the lees are collected in an innovative steel system and processed in controlled conditions of temperature, micro-oxigenation and cycles of remixing. During the treat…
Cracker industry is one of thriving small-medium food industries in Yogyakarta Special Province. The cracker processing plant produces wastewater that potentially contaminates the environment. Wastewater coming from the washing of production equipments has the BOD and COD concentration that exceed the treshold of quality standard due to it containing high organic matter. This paper proposes a c…
We propose an innovative approach to monitor progress in wellbeing and sustainable development in the context of a multiindicator situation. We analyze improvement trajectories over two time periods for nine European countries, showing the differences between consistent and unambiguous improvement and non comparable changes. We find that improvement has been widespread in the socio-economic dom…
The aim of the studies was to check if the quality of water, which was taken from different sources, to plant protection treatments influences the change of the droplet size generated by an agricultural nozzle. For the study water taken from 3 different sources was used and demineralized water was used as a reference. The water quality was evaluated as far as its hardness was concerned. Water h…
This paper explores the green agriculture as a pivotal issue in the 21st century and assigns it a key role in fostering social development and sustainability. In fact, a more sustainable agriculture makes food security possible, particularly in developing countries. This study follows the following structure. The first paragraph investigates the issues and the opportunities connected to today�…
Process management of biopolymers is very important according to processing conditions and stability. This paper presents the results of the extrusion-cooking of thermoplastic corn starch enriched with fillers in the form of flax fibers, using the modified single screw extrusion-cooker TS-45 (Polish design) with L/D = 16 and an additional cooling section of the barrel. Discussed are the influen…
Formerly, “Othok-othok” bamboo traditional toy and alarm clock have high sales, but as the impact of modern product development, both of the sales was decrease.. The innovation of alarm clock that made from bamboo as the source of sound is the one alternative solution of a declining both product. Kansei Engineering method was used to convert the feeling and the imagination of customers int…
In recent years there is an ever greater attention toward the theme of social responsibility, especially from the agriculture and agri-food sector, whose typical features, i.e. the link with the land, the role of tradition and the defence of nature and environment, are closer to this theme. Thus, social environmental issues have become an essential part of the agricultural policy’s objectives…
Small and Medium Enterprises have a central role for national economic. Unfortunately, it still has a domain of low productivity,as well as for SMEs on food products. This study is aimed to identify the factors that influence performance in correspond to increase the productivity of SME on food products. The analysis is based on a fuzzy DEMATEL and ANP as a hybrid MCDM. The objects are SMEs on …
Over China’s long history of aquaculture development, great achievements have been made by enhancingaquaculture as the major contributor to aquatic products supply, while lessons have also been learnt thataquaculture has been developing at the cost of environment. Priority is now given to the aquaculturedevelopment in the light of green growth, which attaches importance to both environment pr…
The mechanization cost in agriculture institute between 20% and 30% of the total production cost. The repair cost of agriculture machines is the second important element of the operation cost of the machines. The paper presents problems related to the calculation of the repair costs and analysis of selected family farms in Poland. The paper argues that there is no precise method for the calcula…
Irrigation is a crucial practice that operators often perform empirically, relying on their own experience, especially in productive areas characterized by low technology agriculture (i.e. several parts of Mediterranean countries). One of the possible approach for proper irrigation scheduling is measuring the soil water potential, simple and easy to manage. The purpose of this research was to e…
The promotion of renewable energy represents a target of the European 2020 strategy for growth. Plant biomass and organic wastes from agriculture represent an effective resource to be exploited for a sustainable rural development, optimizing the land use, diversifying rural entrepreneurship. Cereals are considered a promising biomass producing crop in temperate regions of Europe to be used fo…
Chrysanthemum is an important cut flower grown widely in Cameron Highland, Malaysia. The chrysanthemum growers encountered soil-born diseases, nematodes and accumulation of salinity when production in the same area was practiced continuously. Soilless culture was a cultivation technique independent from soil condition. The purpose of this research was to determine the growth of chrysanthemum g…
A helminthological study of the digestive tracts of 15 Far Eastern musk deer (Moschus moschiferus turovi) of Primorsky Krai detected single nematodes, which were assigned to the following taxons: Spiculopteragia spiculoptera, Nematodirus filicolis, Pygarginema skrjabini, and Trichuris sp. The species S. spiculoptera was registered for musk deer for the first time. Analyses of the literature da…
The authors of this paper have developed and tested a novel modular power unit with the variable drawbar pull category 1.4-3 (1.4-3 tf) (drawbar pull based classification approach is used in Ukraine and some other countries) under the mark MPU-80. In this paper the proposed results of experimental, field and laboratory research of the ploughing unit based on this power unit are listed. Keywo…
The Italian wine industry is going through, during a general economic crisis, a period of strong growth and expansion in the world markets. The quality of products, characterized by tradition and innovation, has defeated the involution of the Italian entrepreneurial system. The variety of wines produced represents the peculiarities of the Italian territory. The aim of this paper is to measure a…
This experiment aimed to compare carcass and meat quality of crossbred pigs (female Thai Native or Duroc crossed with male Pietrain; n=8 each) fattened for 120 days after weaning. They were slaughtered and dressed in USDA style. The experiment was designed by using t-test statistical analysis with two treatments, either Pietrain × Native (P×N) or Pietrain × Duroc (P×D). Pigs were slaughtere…
Harvesting practices in most coffee farms in Indonesia, due to some reasons, have resulted not only red coffee cherries but also green, yellow and deep red cherries. This is suspected to be the cause of low quality coffee beans encountered by traders. This research aimed to characterize some engineering properties of coffee beans produced from wet process in respect to different colors of co…
The agricultural sector especially the plantation sub-sector are required to play a role in the national economy, among others through the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the creation of foreign exchange, the food supply. Cocoa absorb labor at the same time create jobs for farmers, contribute to a positive foreign exchange, and encourages the growth of agribusiness and agroindustries in the area.…
One hundred and forty species of birds have been credibly recognised (during 1970–1990) as Kyzyl Kum desert inhabitants. They are distributed in seven arid landscapes that are unequal in edaphic and floristic characteristics. The most environmentally capacious landscape is the spates of artesian lakes and banks with grass–shrub complexes, where 83 bird species were found. The valleys of dry…
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the stability during storage period of collagenase obtained when culturing Bacillus licheniformis ATCC 14580 and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens isolated from soil, in a basal salt medium supplemented with 0.3% sucrose and 0.6% sheep fur meal. The obtained enzyme was lyophilized and used for further trials. Enzyme solutions (0.5 g/ml) were prepared using …
The new shape of competition is pushing wine firms to invest into new technologies. Given the growing interests in this area, we provide evidence on the determinants of the adoption of the new technologies industry. On the basis of a survey on Italian companies, the main investments in innovations and their key drivers are investigated. We tested whether firm characteristics impact the adoption…
Ibu Popon is an Agro-industrial based small and medium-scale enterprises in Majalengka West-Java Indonesia. This enterprise began to be assisted by Unpad for seven years since its establishment in 2007 and initially built as supporting unit of a Pesantren (Islamic Boarding School) and was not projected as a professionally conducted commercial enterprise. Since conducting the assistance process,…
Nematodes belonging to the group of equine strongyles have a huge impact on equine health. Studies in horse establishments worldwide have shown a tremendous occurrence of these parasites under largely different geographic and climatic conditions. Accordingly, decades of strongyle control have been based on regular and frequent preventive treatments with anthelmintics and,subsequently, this has …
The results from tests for the presence of cellulose in the agricultural biomass waste for selected quality traits of pellets produced were presented. Selected test raw materials revealed the average cellulose content determined by Kürschner-Hanak method in the range from less than 32% (buckwheat straw) to less than 43% (rye straw). There was negative linear relationship between the cellulose …
Occupational environment of farmers is full of biohazards. Especially frequent are molds found in grain, grain dust, and soil. People might be affected by diseases caused by these molds inducing: skin infections, bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis and others. The aim of the study was to detect and quantify colonization by molds in samples of grain and grain dust collected during combine thres…
As per January - August 2013, the Government of Indonesia (GOA) has regulated a quota-based import restriction policy for importing shallot. This policy has produced an effect to the shallot price that rose significantly in spite inflation occurred. In order to control the inflation rate, on 2 September 2013 the government changed the import restriction policy, from quota based into price refer…
Food waste in the global food supply chain is reviewed in relation to the prospects for feeding a population of nine billion by 2050. The topic of this article is the “food waste”, an important issue which has been developed increasingly over the past few years in the context of the actions identified at international level to contrast the global food crisis, which in its various aspects in…
Functioning of an agricultural biogas plant is connected with generating large amounts of post-digestion matter. After considering the physicochemical properties, the basic direction of digestate utilization should be its use as a fertilizer. A possibility of agricultural utilization of digestate as a fertilizer was investigated. Digestate obtained from an agricultural biogas plant was tested …
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate why reading aloud (RA), both by teachers and students, is such a common practice in high school classrooms. In particular, this investigation considers students’ views of why RA is practised and what are its effects. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents the results of two small focus group discussions, in which high school …
Nata de coco is coconut water fermented foods by the bacteria Acetobacter xylinum. In general, the production of nata de coco is done by direct inoculation into liquid medium. Immobilization of cells is a technique used to trap the cells into a matrix. The use of immobilized cells for the production of nata de coco is one alternative to the product resulted in a cell-free nata. This study used …
We propose the Net Waterfootprint (WFPnet) method to estimate the water footprint (WFP) of food products, in alternative to the current WFP method, based on absolute values. We compared the WFP and WFPnet methods for cattle milk and meat production in different feed efficiency (high and low) and crop water use efficiency (WUE; high, medium and low) scenarios under Mediterranean conditions. The …
The production of Montepulciano wine in Italy represents an important factor in the agricultural sector, being the second tree crop for area involved and the first for turnover produced. In this context, the mountain viticulture stands out from the others for various reasons, such as the lack of mechanisation, the low yield per hectare and its strong links with the surrounding territory, of whi…
An investigation was carried out with three newly developed temperature sensitive genic male sterile (TGMS) lines for their floral traits, seed production potential and outcrossing ability in ten cross combinations. In the TGMS lines, fertile pollens had an average diameter of 0.89 mm while the sterile pollens was with 0.02 mm diameter.TS-29-150GY produced the biggest fertile pollens with 0.92 …
In recent years an important trend in sustainable food consumption is represented by organic consumers. Organic agriculture not only preserves the environment but it also improves public health, bringing significant benefits both to the economy as well as to the social cohesion of rural areas. Based on these considerations the proposed paper aims to analyze consumers demand for organic food as …
The wine-growing sector is probably the area of agriculture that best expresses the binomial of production quality-territorial identity. In fact, the identification of agricultural production with the territory, its peculiarities and its atmospheres generates a relationship that is mutually advantageous and that the consumer perceives and values. This binomial is the basis that has generated th…
Purpose – An overview of English aims, theoretical scope and methods is badly needed. Ministries throughout the English-speaking world have become dominated by a demand for testing – stimulated no doubt by regular Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) surveys – and lost sight of first principles. The purpose of this article is therefore to set out a model of Englis…
Presently, there are several nesting groups of the Chinese penduline tit in Primorsky Krai. In Russia, the first nest of the Chinese penduline tit was found in 1994 in the Hasansky region of Primorsky Krai near the border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The nest was from the previous year, which indicates that the nesting has already occurred in 1993. From 1998 to 1999, the popu…
During the last four decades, a decrease in ermine pelt procurement has been noted in Yakutia. To determine the possible reasons for this, material on the ecology of ermine and sables in Northeast Yakutia was collected from 1980–1994. The study examined 2890 sable stomachs for feed, and 1167 ermine skulls for Skrjabingylus infection. It was revealed that ermine are hunted by sables,but their …
The necessity of a more sustainable use of lands and environmental resources in general, throughout specific programming and management tools at different scale levels is nowadays widely shared. Forests and woodlands are a key asset of the environment and the traditional and current landscapes. With regards to the state of art of forest planning and management tools in Italy, in this short pape…
Improving of student performance is one important focus of college management. Mapping of student’s actual condition is the requirement that must be made before designing the performance improvement program. This paper focus on mapping students using K-mean Cluster algorithm to reveal the hidden pattern and classifying students based on their demographic (gender, origin,GPA, grade of certain …
Sustainability in industry is very important. Hence we proposed a partnership of sustainable model among supply chain three players and proposed 13 goals in the model.We used goal programming to achieve the goals. To illustrate the model, we conducted a numerical trial based on our observations in export oriented wooden furniture industry in Central Java, Indonesia and we gave different weighti…