This article describes challenges faced by agricultural production and marketing in the era of big data, and then builds the agricultural market information matching platform based on HADOOP & NUTCH combining cloud computing technology, finally details its layers and key technologies, including the use of open source search engine to capture the whole network market information to build agricul...

Biotechnology has already become a major driving force in the creation of new agricultural products. Transgenic plants bring benefits to farmers, consumers, and reduce a heavy toll inflicted on the environment by conventional agricultural practices. Yet debate continues around the issues related to the production of transgenic organisms, including plants. New transformation technologies being d...

This exploratory study investigates methods for enhancing Flickr tags as image metadata through the creation of context. Community generated tags from a sample of images in the Library of Congress’s (LOC) Flickr photostream were harvested and compared to metadata from related Wikipedia articles. In addition, a content analysis of comments in the LOC photostream was conducted. This informs an ex...

Imagine a world where the demand for food and other agricultural products is constant or increases regularly as populations and incomes grow. Land can only be used for agriculture or forest. Then the only ways to keep more land in forest are to increase agricultural yields, reduce population growth or depress incomes. The amount of land devoted to agriculture equals the total demand for agricul...

nowadays, agricultural r&d; provides new and developed technologies to create modern agricultural producing methods. this paper investigates the relationship between tfp, domestic agricultural r&d;, and foreign agricultural r&d; during 1979 – 2009 by using almon lag models. the results indicate that agricultural researches (both domestic and foreign r&d;) have positive and significant impact on...

Identifying role of extension system in adoption of new technologies have important role to developing favorable extension systems. For supporting sustainable agriculture in Iran needs extension systems to be carefully thought and accurately implemented. The purpose of this is analyzing role of extension activities in adoption of sustainable agriculture. Based on the results the attending agric...

With the continuous development of the industrialization process, the countries all over the world gradually appeared lack of agricultural labor force and aging phenomenon, which was especially prominent in developed countries. However the agricultural robot with high operating efficiency, high qualities of work will play an increasingly important role in future agricultural production. Robot n...

Over the last 300 years, plant science research has provided important knowledge and technologies for advancing the sustainability of agriculture. In this Essay, I describe how basic research advances have been translated into crop improvement, explore some lessons learned, and discuss the potential for current and future contribution of plant genetic improvement technologies to continue to enh...