The dairy industry in northern Victoria faced dramatic changes between 2001/02 and 2002/03. Drought resulted in a substantial decrease in availability, and subsequent increase in price, of irrigation water and supplementary feed. Most farms recorded substantial net cash flow deficits. Prior to 2002/03, a project had been established using case studies and a spreadsheet model to examine potentia...

An experiment was conducted in Jessore district of Bangladesh during the period from January 2003 to December 2004 to investigate the performance of Brown Shelled Hybrid Layer, White Shelled Hybrid Layer and Native Hen measured during only laying period (57 weeks). 8 Brown Shelled Hybrid Layer farms, 8 White Shelled Hybrid Layer farms and 10 Native Hen farms were reared intensive, intensive and...

The study on gender and net farm income of cassava-based farmers under individual land tenure system was done in Abia State of Nigeria. The main objective was to determine the Net Farm Income (NFI) and the Benefit Cost Ratio (BCR) of the cassava farmers by gender vis-aviz their income levels as well as food security in the state. A multi-stage random sampling technique was adopted while data we...

Advanced live-cell imaging of the endosomal sorting complexes required for transport (ESCRT) and computational modeling have provided insights into the Vps4-dependent dynamic rearrangements of ESCRT-III filaments during membrane constriction and abscission.

Aquaculture is growing rapidly around the world. In Brazil, fish farming in net tanks has high potential due its large number of reservoirs. However, cultivable areas with a density may be more susceptible to eutrophication compared other production systems, and impair ecosystem where they are installed. Therefore, attention needed this type system avoid environmental impacts. The objective stu...

The use of order statistics to arrive at a scheduling regime is shown to be applicable to data farms running on second generation parallel processors Uniform and decreasing task size scheduling regimes are examined Experimental timings and a further simula tion for large scale e ects were used to exercise the scheduling regimes The paper also considers a number of other scheduling schemes for d...

Sweden belongs to an exclusive group of nine countries in the world with a forest cover greater than 65% of the land area. Forest products make a large proportion of Sweden’s net export income. Not only wood fibres but also berries and meat from the forests are important. Game hunting, reindeer farming, berries and mushroom gathering, as well as fresh water fishery, are all included in human fo...

osmotic stress is one of the major factors that significantly reduce yields in dry areas. plants respond to this abiotic stress at physiological and molecular levels. many genes are induced under stress conditions by transcription factors. dehydration responsive element binding (dreb) protein is a subfamily of ap2/erf transcription factors which control expression of many osmotic stress-inducib...

How to feed the world without loosing what is left of biodiversity? Two answers for this question are found in the literature. On the one hand, the “Land Sparing” paradigm suggests that increasing yield by means of intensive agricultural systems would fulfill the needs of human population and save natural landscapes. On the other hand, “Biodiversity Friendly Farming” argues that agricultural in...