the purpose of this descriptive-survey research was to assess the attitude of the farmers, bakers and consumers toward cultural and social factors influencing wheat, flour, and bread losses. the population of the study was constituted of all the farmers, bakers and bread consumers in tehran, khuzestan, golestan and kermanshah provinces. a sample of 1500 farmers, 600 bakers, and 6000 consumers w...

Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) is an important member of the Solanaceae family. It is mainly used as food and cash crop globally. Tomato also serves as an ornamental plant in some parts of the world. In urban areas, this crop is included in the foodscaping systems where it is grown in hanging baskets, growing pots and aquaponics for aesthetic and food purposes. Tomato production is m...

the aim of this study was to investigate the factors affecting timely repayment of agricultural loans in fars province. the necessary data was obtained from agricultural bank as well as through 163 questionnaires, filled out in fars-province. the farmers were divided in to timely repayment and defaulter groups while standard tobit model being used for the study. the dependent variable in this m...

blast disease of rice caused by pyricularia oryzae is a potentially damaging disease in northern due to planting of susceptible local cultivars and favorable conditions. to assess the effects of blast on rice yield components and yield loss, one field experiment was conducted at the lowland culture conditions. analysis of blast effects on rice indicated that the maximum yield losses due to unpr...

Two of the most promising new remote sensing technologies for increasing accuracy and efficiency of forest inventory are tree-wise or stand-wise measurements of airborne laser scanner data or 2(2D) and 3-dimensional measurements (3D) of digital aerial photographs. The aim of the study was to compare 3D measurements of digital aerial photographs and laser scanning to 2D measurements of digital a...