BACKGROUND In 2010, foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) occurred for the first time in a decade in Japan. Movement or shipment of people and animals around infected farms was restricted; however these contingency measures proved insufficient to prevent FMD spread. Consequently, a total of 292 farms were confirmed as infected during this outbreak. We conducted a case-control study to identify the risk ...

The cost and return analysis of different sizes of broiler farms in the Punjab state has been carried out based on the primary data collected from 140 broiler farmers for the period March 2008 to February 2009 in three districts, viz. Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur and Muktsar. The study has shown that the total fixed investments per bird have been highest on small farms, followed by medium and large far...

In 2003, a feed-borne outbreak of Salmonella Cubana occurred in Sweden as a result of contamination in a feed plant. Salmonella Cubana was detected in 49 out of 77 pig farms having received possibly contaminated feed. In this study, potential risk factors for farms being salmonella positive were examined, and a survival analysis was performed to investigate risk factors affecting the restrictio...

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Background: The productivity of greengram (Vigna radiata L.) is not adequate to meet the growing global population since mostly all leguminous crop grown under rainfed condition. In this regard, a research experiment was conducted investigate effect bio fermented products with drip fertigation aerobic rice (Oryza sativa - cropping system. Methods: A field at Wetland farms Department Agronomy, T...

Cereals–soybean intercropping is not well studied, despite the importance of these crops in increasing agricultural profitability and ensuring nutritional food security Southeast Asia. We compared different practices (IPs) with monocropping (MPs) for their yield economic performance by small-scale farms without mechanization. The treatments were IPs rice–maize, rice–soybean, or maize–soybean MP...

There are few published studies describing the unique management practices, farm design and housing characteristics of commercial meat chicken and layer farms in Australia. In particular, there has been a large expansion of free range poultry production in Australia in recent years, but limited information about this enterprise exists. This study aimed to describe features of Australian commerc...

The sustainability level of current rice farming practices in Thailand was assessed based on in-field data from interviewing 2000 farmers covering six varieties and their different production systems. Data were collected farmers’ characteristics activities according to the 41 requirements Sustainable Rice Platform (SRP) standard. SRP scores ranged 53 81%, with best performance by Khao Dawk Mali...

BACKGROUND Pathogens are growing threats to wildlife. The rapid growth of marine salmon farms over the past two decades has increased host abundance for pathogenic sea lice in coastal waters, and wild juvenile salmon swimming past farms are frequently infected with lice. Here we report the first investigation of the potential role of salmon farms in transmitting sea lice to juvenile sockeye sal...

the control of biological, hydrological and geochemical cycles of soil is the key part of the earth system. the objective of this research was to evaluate changes in soil chemical properties due to deforestation occurred in the gazafolya village, merek watershed, kermanshah province, iran. toward this attempt, 35 soil samples were collected from top soil layer using auger in early june, 2013. s...