A critical review of agriculture policies during different plan periods, aligned with political changes, has been conducted out to understand the shift in priorities, technology transfer ,support products, and private sector engagement. Firstly, 1950s, were influenced by first five-year focused on import dissemination technology. During three decades Panchayat era, there was an emphasis state m...

Purpose: The study made an effort to look into Kerala's agricultural development patterns, growth performance, and structural changes. In Kerala, commercial cash crops like rubber coconut replaced food including lentils, rice, tapioca, cashew nuts, ginger, causing a shift in the cropping pattern favour of non-food at expense crops. Agriculture has become more vulnerable as result shrinking cult...

Three new agricultural laws intended to modernise Indian national farm produce markets are angering farmers. We investigate why farmers so concerned and what if anything the mean for environmental footprint of farming in India. For past four months, thousands have been camping on outskirts New Delhi protest against three passed by government September. Each (The Farmers' Produce Trade Commerce ...

To label or not? That was on the California ballot during last year's US elections, owing to a push from food safety advocates to have genetically modified food advertised as such, as has been standard in Europe for years. Those lined up in favor of the food labeling initiative argued that the consumer has a right to know what they're eating. But in a counterattack , a coalition of agribusiness...

In the near future, year 2050, agricultural production should expand to fulfill needs of approximately 9.7 billion inhabitants. Such an objective be harmonized with social, economic, and environmental sustainability aspects maintain safe food security worldwide. For more than a year, COVID-19 pandemic has raised is still strongly disrupting agro-livestock sector, similar several other economic ...

Though there is an extensive body of research regarding information and communication technology (ICT) use in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), relatively few studies have examined ICT use specifically in the subset of SMEs known as micro-enterprises. This study compares ICT use among micro-enterprises (MEs) in the agricultural sector. Factors expected to influence IC adoption include ...

The evolution towards the information society of the 21 century is affecting people’s lives, communities, businesses, organizations and nations of the whole world. The borders of this exploding revolution are being reshaped by powerful new ITs such as Internet, ATM, and wireless communications. Communications today dominate the evolution and are expressed in agriculture not only as wired farms ...

I N THE PAST 3 DECADES, THE prevalence of obesity has more than doubled in the United States. 1 This increase has been largely attributed to shifting trends in the American diet, including the increased consumption of added fats and sugars and decreases in physical activity. 2 Previous public health interventions targeting individual-level factors have had marginal, if not negligible, effects o...

Superv l sed occupa t i ona l exper ience (SOE) p rog rams have long been t h o u g h t t o b e a n e f f e c t i v e m e t h o d o f d e v e l o p i n g s k i l l s i n v o c a t i o n a l a g r i c u l t u r e s t u d e n t s . B e g i n n i n g w i t h t h e o r i g i n a l f e d e r a l legislation fo r voca t iona l ag r i cu l tu re , t he superv l sed occupa t iona l exper ience p ro gra...

Area coverage problem is one of the key issues to prolong a wireless sensor network lifetime. It is based on selecting as few active nodes as possible from all deployed nodes while maintaining sufficient sensing coverage of the monitored region. Several area coverage protocols have been proposed, most of them assume the availability of accurate information about node locations and sensing range...