There is strong advocacy for agricultural machinery appropriate for smallholder farmers in South Asia. Such 'scale-appropriate' machinery can increase returns to land and labour, although the still substantial capital investment required can preclude smallholder ownership. Increasing machinery demand has resulted in relatively well-developed markets for rental services for tillage, irrigation, ...

Understanding the drivers and consequences of diversity and productivity in plant communities remains a central challenge in ecological research (Thompson et al. 2001, Mittelbach 2012). Interest in how the diversity and composition of plant communities regulate ecological processes and ecosystem services that different ecosystems provide has expanded over the past two decades (Loreau et al. 200...

This paper presents the main results of a benchmarking survey for Northern Power System in Vietnam to measure the Power Quality and Reliability in regard to short and long-term interruption. The survey was conducted in 28 provinces and cities divided into four groups to compare: mountainous vs. delta areas and industrial vs. agricultural areas. The evaluation of power quality is based on reliab...

Logan A. Norris', Marvin L. Montgomery 2 , Warren L. Webb3, Henry J. Schroeder, Jr. 3, and Fred Grosso 'Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture Corvallis, Ore. 97331 'Department of Agricultural Chemistry 'Department of Forest Management Oregon State University Corvallis, Ore. 97331 °Bonneville Power Administration U.S. Department of t...

The present study seeks to understand the determinants of land agricultural suitability in Malta before heavy mechanization. A GIS-based Logistic Regression model is built on the basis of the data from mid-1800s cadastral maps (cabreo). This is the first time that such data are being used for the purpose of building a predictive model. The maps record the agricultural quality of parcels (rangin...

soil detachment is known as an important process in soil erosion and its quantification is necessary to establish a basic understanding of erosion. this study was carried out to find the best flow erosivity indicator(s) for predicting detachment rate at low slopes. for this purpose, 12 experiments including 6 flow discharges (75, 100, 125, 150, 175 and 200 ml/s) and 2 slope gradients (1.5 and 2...