Crop rotation is a critical feature of all organic cropping systems because it provides the principal mechanism for building healthy soils, a major way to control pests, and a variety of other benefits. Crop rotation means changing the type of crop grown on a particular piece of land from year to year. As used in this manual, the term includes both cyclical rotations, in which the same sequenc…
During the last years, in the city of Rome (Italy) due to social and economical trends urban agriculture is a growing phenomenon. Residential kitchen gardens in Rome are a custom started in the past, but recently they experienced a strong increase with a concentration in the city fringe. The amount and extension of these cultivated parcels has been inventoried by the Italian Institute of Agricu…
Annual rainfall is less than 500 mm of rainfall in the dry farming regions in order to be stored in the soil processing. At the time,and is provided with a sufficient number of the version of weed control, leveling a good soil is obtained, the temperature of the soil evaporation will be blocked, and capillarity corruption prevented erosion. Some dry land farming areas is 7-8 times a year. As a …
Average composition of household waste in Bucharest has a large variability. The average amount of waste collected is 0.048 m3 /man. year compared with the U.S. 1m3/ man. year, South Africa 0.8 m3 / man . year and Australia 0.4 m3/ man. year. These wastes are sorted, the size which could be sorted and reused according to their composition, remaining part, about 64 % of the original composition …
The issue of water and climate change is present in many countries. Drought stress is one of the main abiotic stresses influencing turfgrass growth and quality. Tall fescue is the most suitable cool-season turfgrass for the Mediterranean region. This species has a better heat tolerance than perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass. The analysis of radiation reflected by turfgrass can supply pr…
Potential evapotranspiration (PET) is key input in water resources, agricultural and environmental modelling. For many decades,numerous approaches have been proposed for the consistent estimation of PET at several time scales of interest. The most recognized is the Penman-Monteith formula, which is yet difficult to apply in data-scarce areas, since it requires simultaneous observations of four …
The objectives of this research were to determine the work posture risk level and suggest recommendation of improvement on small factory of corn chips. NBM questionnaire was used to find out workers’ complaints encountered from the work they have done. OWAS method was conducted with WinOWAS software, involving six workers and 31 work postures. NBM indicates that workers do enduring the feelin…
The red hairy caterpillar, Amsacta albistriga Walker, is an important pest of groundnut, castor and cotton in India. We determined the susceptibility of Amsacta albistriga to organophosphate and synthetic pyrethroid insecticides under laboratory conditions. Biochemical profile of esterase, acetylcholinesterase, glutathione S-transferase, and glutathione S-dehydrogenase was assessed. Synthet…
Agriculture’s multifunctionality constitutes a core dimension in the design of rural development policies of the European Union,recently reformed through the introduction of Reg. EC/1305/2013. Within a generalized rural development context, agriculture plays numerous roles; in Cyprus three sectors other than the production of food and fiber are particularly affected: the environment, includin…
Linking Europe and Central Asia, Romania is considered to be an important meeting point between different biogeographic regions and ecosystems. In this context, Romanian flora is truly an exceptional source of biological active phytocompounds,basis of new biopharmaceuticals. Data indicate that in Romania there are about 3600 higher plants (ferns and flowering plants)that grow wild and other 800…
Our knowledge of design and management aspects of irrigation needs to be improved in regions where the availability of good quality water supply is limited. This contribution describes how potted weeping figs were grown in a greenhouse with one, two,or four emitters (1.2 L•h-1) per pot and irrigated with water of 3 dS•m-1 and two irrigation volumes (control or high). The aim was to determin…
Abstract: - The large construction projects cause inevitable negative impact on the natural landscape of the exposed areas. Among these is the creation of disturbed surfaces with unsuitable soil material and gradients that imply the destruction of existing vegetation. On these surfaces the revegetation becomes both necessary and difficult. In the Egnatia Motorway and its vertical axes case w…
The main objective of this study was to determine canopy-air temperature differential, which can be used to quantify crop water stress index (CWSI) for grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) grown with drip irrigation during the spring cultivation period of 2005. Specifically, crop response to water loss, atmospheric temperature and air vapor pressure deficit (VPD) in the soil–plant–atmosphere conti…
In this work we evaluated the effects of a) rice cultivation under flooding conditions and b) seasonal flooding (May- October) without cultivation, on the pore size distribution of a SiL soil. Soil cores were collected from two different depth intervals (0-15 cm and 15-30 cm). After two years under flooding conditions, textural porosity increased at the expense of structural porosity. A perc…
Litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn. cv. Hong Huay) is one of the most economically important fruit products in Thailand, especially in the highlands of Chiang Mai where litchi can have natural off-season flowering even during the rainy season (June to August). The off-season production of litchi is not a common practice in the region because the physiological responses of litchi trees to flower ind…
The assessment of different concentrations and forms of polyphenols (free and encapsulated) from olive mill waste (OMWW) as plant protection materials against economically important plant pathogenic fungi in in vitro and in vivo tests is the main research area of this work. In the first stage of the experimental process, it was assessed the zone of inhibition in mm of several fungal pathogens u…
Extreme climatic events are the most important elements of climate changes, which directly affect the nature and society. In the recent years, the plethora of extreme climatic indices have been developed for the different parameters, in order to analyze and monitor the extreme climate changes. This paper presents the analysis of maximum and minimum air temperatures (Tmax, Tmin) and precipitatio…
Landscape is the result of the way that different components – the natural component of a territory and human activity – interact over time, giving landscape a specific identity. The landscape forms a link between a geographical area and the social aspects of the population. The gastronomic tradition and typical products give landscape its value of uniqueness. Landscape, however, is subject…
The aims of this study were to phenotypically characterize and to describe the production system of Thai indigenous chicken reared by hill tribe people living in the highland region of Phayao province, Northern Thailand. A survey using the random sampling method was carried out in 3 villages consisting of 2 different tribes, Hmong and Mien. Data were recorded of 320 chickens; 160 male and 160 f…
Armillaria sp. strain F022 is capable of degrading a wide range of four-ring aromatic hydrocarbons such as fluoranthene.Production of ligninolytic enzymes during fluoranthene degradation by Armillaria sp. F022 is related to an increase in biomass. Armillaria sp. F022 has been shown to degrade a 10 mg/L solution by 100% within 30 d. Fluoranthene removal decreases with an increase in fluoranthene…
Italy and Greece host a rich diversity of vascular plants. Among local plants some are more resistant to drought than others, a characteristic associated with their genetic structure. An extensive literature review regarding drought resistant local plants of SE Italy and NW Greece that can be used in the framework of agricultural cultivations and landscaping, is presented in this paper. As a re…
Water is considered as the most critical resource for sustainable agricultural development worldwide. Irrigated areas will increase in forthcoming years, while fresh water supplies will be diverted from agriculture to meet the increasing demand of domestic use and industry. Furthermore, the efficiency of irrigation is very low, since less than 65 % of the applied water is actually used by the c…
In-situ conservation of local pig breeds in Southeast Asia requires genetic improvement embedded in viable marketing concepts. Increasing demand offers marketing opportunities for indigenous Vietnamese Ban pork. This study sought to adjust estimation methods for grading light carcasses according to their leanness. Using data from the dissection of 45 carcasses, several models were fitted and ev…
1. The present work contains studys of extraction and characterization of myofibrillar proteins from chicken breast meat. There were used several methods of extraction of myofibrillar proteins and the protein concentrat myofibrillar was analysed physicochemical. The current study refers to myofibrillar protein extraction and their characterization, from chicken breast meat. Acid pH dissolution,…
Superabsorbent hydrogels are a particular class of gels, obtained by chemical stabilization of hydrophilic polymers in a tridimensional network. Hydrogels have been widely proposed over the last 40 years for agricultural use with the aim to ameliorate water availability for plants, by increasing water holding properties of growing media (soils or soilless substrates). Most of the traditional hy…
This research aims to get the optimum combination of Hydraulic Retention Time and addition of inoculums in tofu’s wastewater treatment using anaerobic system. Research was done using Central Composite Design (CCD) with two factors, which were Hydraulic Retention Time (12; 18; and 24 hours) and addition of inoculums (5%; 10%; and 15%). The desired responses was percentage decrease of COD, BOD,…
Genotype interaction with environment is general phenomenon in many countries with high biogeophysic variability as Indonesia. Different responses two or more genotypes a certain environment to the other environment will be followed by modification sequence genotype. Stability analysis and adaptability could be used to identify genotype in multilocation test. An experiment had been held in Apr…
The Research Center for High-technology Greenhouse Plant Production of Ehime University provides a seamless technology development to establish INTELLIGENT GREENHOUSE SYSTEMS (IGS). The core concept as the basis of IGS is ‘Speaking plant approach (SPA)’, which was originally proposed by Udink ten Cate et al. and Hashimoto who is a professor emeritus at Ehime University. The SPA concept de…
This paper assesses factors impact on adaptation to drought in maize production of farmers in Dakrong district – a highland district of Central Vietnam. The study was conducted with 180 farmers, being selected randomly from three communes of the district. Factor analysis and Multinomial Logit regression indicated six main groups of factors impacting on four separate adaptation options (called…
To make use of the limited amounts of water in arid region, the Iranians developed man-made underground water channels called qanats (kanats) .In fact, qanats may be considered as the first long-distance water transfer system. Qanats are an ancient water transfer system found in arid regions wherein groundwater from mountainous areas, aquifers and sometimes from rivers, was brought to points of…
The design of performance measurements has changed over the past few decades. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) should be the vital navigation instruments used by managers and leaders to understand whether they are on course to success or not. The right set of KPIs will shine light on performance and highlight areas that need attention. This research objective was to design key performance indi…
A relatively small number of large industrial enterprises and major exporting companies has a dominant position in the market and determines the corresponding demand for transport services. Logistics activity in the country is one of the growth points of the economic system. One of the ways for increasing the efficiency of logistics activities in agriculture and food transport management sector…
It is well known nowadays that morphological type classification of spermatozoa is an important component of the modern semen evaluation. Meanwhile, current methods of analysis are subjective and highly diversified; they are also ones of the best tools for artificial insemination using cryogenic preserved semen for the contemporary livestock producer. The aim of the present study was to determi…
Indonesia is one of countries that has mega-biodiversity and has some potency on spices and herbs. Some of them have natural volatile oils or other components that influence on flavor and taste of some drinks and foods. This research was aimed to explore the possibility of some indigenous spices (ginger, lemongrass, kaffir lime and jasmine), which were extracted then added as flavoring agent…
This study evaluated factors influencing banana farmer’s adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) in the uplands of Quang Tri province, Vietnam. Stratified sample technique was used to randomly select 300 respondents from two upland districts of the province with an aid of the structured questionnaire. The study found 65% of the SAPs were not adopted or adopted in a low rate; whe…
Structured lipid is triglycerides composed of medium chain saturated fatty acids and unsaturated fatty acids. Coconut oil contains adequate amounts of medium chain and unsaturated fatty acids. The objective of this research is to evaluate a new method of producing structured lipid directly from coconut oil through directed interesterification in a solvent at three successively decreasing temper…
Deficit irrigation is a common practice to cope with limited water availability. A two-year field experiment was conducted in order to determine the water status of cotton crop (Gossypium hirsutum L.) under full and deficit irrigation conditions. The experiment was set up as a split plot design with four replicates, two main plots (irrigation treatments) and two sub plots (cotton cultivars). …
Poultry is the highest consumed meat nowadays. There are some problems in poultry supply chain in XYZ slaughtering house. In addition to supply chain problem, people always need to consume poultry, not only from quality but also from halal status on it. SCOR is a method of assessing supply chain performance created by Supply Chain Council from two perspectives those are internal business proces…
DNA isolation represents the basic and probably the most important step in molecular biology for microbial strains, and even more, for microbial community analyses. Despite the development of molecular protocols for DNA microbial community isolation, there are still many drawbacks dependent of samples composition, and even the commercially available genomic isolation kits have significant lim…
Trichinella spp. is one of the most widespread parasite infecting humans, mammals, and birds all over the world. Despite of the efforts made by public health specialists to control and eradicate it, trichinellosis is considered a re-emerging zoonosis in many areas. Romania is recognized as one of the countries with the highest prevalence of trichinellosis in Europe. With respect to Trichinellai…
As a bio-fuel, the bio pellet is popular as an alternative for replacing firewood for cooking. The potential of bio pellet as a bio-fuel produced from cassava skin becomes the focus of this study. The purpose is to determine the process and composition of bio pellet based on mass balance. The material was collected from several fermented cassava industries located in Jember Regency and Yogya…
Geographical studies on characteristics and diversity of the landscape in the Balkans have frequently referred to the portrayals by travelers from different countries, who, due to their work as diplomats and officials or simply as a result of their curiosity, visited various areas of Balkan. Putting the Balkans’ in the attention of Europe, through its recognition and recovery, both in the XIX…
Total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN) are the most important components of sediments and soils as they can be used to distinguish marine and terrestrial sources of organic matter, environmental depositional conditions, pollution indices and soil quality and productivity indicators. In this paper we present datasets of measurements of TOC and TN in sediments applying high temperatur…
Marine biofouling is a natural phenomenon representing one of the greatest problems in marine technology (navigation,aquaculture nets, etc). To circumvent these problems, antifouling paints or coatings, i.e. matrices containing biocidal species, are used to protect the submerged surfaces and objects. Polymers containing quaternary phosphonium or quaternary ammonium groups are promising biocidal…
This paper aims to investigate the profit inefficiency among hybrid rice farmers in Central Vietnam using stochastic frontier analysis method with a stochastic translog normalized profit frontier function. The results showed that the average profit efficiency was 0.63, implying 0.37 was profit inefficiency. The research found that age, education, irrigation, share of rice income, share of hybri…
Internal (the consumer itself) and external factors influence the consumer to buy a product. It is these factors that can affect the length of time the consumer to buy a product. Time-to-event data analysis is the method to analyze the data when the response of interest is the time until some event occurs. The data to be analyzed is in the form of time, also called failure time or survival time…
In this study we focused on the investigation of the cardiovascular system in swine by means of angiocardiographies utilizing Iopamiro 300 as contrast agent. Our choice of subject is due to the correlation between human species and swine, knowing that the latter was and continues to be an experimental model for various studies performed both in veterinary and in human medicine. The research was…
Small and medium enterprise (SME) needs to apply effective scheduling in order to meet the demand schedule. This is done traditionally, though, it is necessary to allocate production resources to produce product variety such as bread. The fact shows that the order fulfillment is often delayed because of incorrect scheduling. This problem can be solved by making production scheduling that have a…
This study aimed to identify and mitigate risks in tobacco supply chain in Temanggung Regency, Central Java Province,Indonesia, based on risk management principles in ISO 31000: 2009. The mitigation plan was composed by using tool of analytical network process (ANP). The results showed that the risk that were classified as avoidance risk at farmer level are weather, capital access, the price an…
Agroindustry is one of the sectors which provides a big support to national economy. However, the added value given by this sector is still low, particularly for processed products, most of the products exported by this sector are raw materials. Agroindustry sector in Indonesia is generally dominated by Small Medium Industries (SMIs) that still have to face various limitations in order to give …