Food safety begins on the farms and farmers play a crucial role in producing healthy food. Several factors were investigated here including water quality, labor health, health facilities, packaging and storage, transportation, fertilizers and solid organic materials, and field sanitation to reach more comprehensive results. So, 380 farmers were selected from 77 villages of rural areas of Gonbad...

Rural Connections Sept. 2011 31 Oregon State University barley breeder, Dr. Pat Hayes, stands in a field of barley with farmer Wilbur Bishop of Coupeville, Washington. The barley growing in the field is from a variety called ‘Alba,’ developed by Hayes to be well adapted to conditions in the Coastal Pacific Northwest. Photo credit: Elizabeth Dyck Rebuilding the Grain Chain: Stories from the Coas...

A pencil-type ionization chamber, developed at Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares (IPEN), was characterized with the objective to verify the possibility of its application in radiation field mapping procedures. The characterization tests were evaluated, and the results were satisfactory. The results obtained for the X radiation field mapping with the homemade chamber were compared w...

This study offers evidence of the robustness of farmer rice varieties (Oryza glaberrima and O. sativa) in West Africa. Our experiments in five West African countries showed that farmer varieties were tolerant of sub-optimal conditions, but employed a range of strategies to cope with stress. Varieties belonging to the species Oryza glaberrima - solely the product of farmer agency - were the most...

Compared to students in general education, students in special education classrooms have a higher risk of developing emotional and interpersonal problems. Special education students have to deal with the frustrations they experience that accompany their learning difficulties (Grande, 1988; Keilitz & Dunivant, 1987). Quite often, these children also suffer from compromised mental or physical hea...

the objective of these investigation were use of berseem clover (trifolium alexandrinum ) in double cropping system (after autumns crop) to improve forage production in shahrekord region. the experiments were carried out in the preliminary, research and farmer field condition in 2005, 2006-7 and 2013 respectively. in 2005 the results showed that there is possibility of double cropping of bersee...