The objective of the study is to explore the scope for water productivity enhancement in irrigated agriculture in India through: i] water control; ii] optimizing nutrient input to crop; iii] improving the quality and reliability of irrigation water; and, iv] growing crops in regions where climate is favourable. The study is based on data from three important river basins in India, viz., Indus, ...

Cape Verde is a semiarid country where lack of rainfall exacerbates the scarce resources available for livestock which, therefore, make it very vulnerable to climate change. By providing reclaimed water (RW) irrigation, possible decrease forage importation. Subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) improves health security by preventing contact between and harvested plants. Sorghum water-efficient crop ...

In these difficult economic times, many practices are looking for ways to improve profitability. It is strange, however, that when economic conditions improve, improving profitability seems to become less a priority. Why not strive for better profitability all the time? If a practice is well run in good times, it will be better positioned to weather difficult times. Patient satisfaction can be ...

In this paper we use micro data on both trade and production for a sample of large Chinese manufacturing firms in the footwear industry from 2002-2006 to estimate an empirical model of export demand, pricing, and market participation by destination market. We use the model to construct indexes of firm-level demand, cost, and export market profitability. The empirical results indicate substantia...

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Improving soil structure often reduces furrow erosion and maintains adequate infiltration. Cottage cheese whey, the liquid byproduct from cottage cheese manufacture, was utilized to stabilize soil aggregates and reduce sediment losses from furrow irrigation. We applied either 2.4 or 1.9L of whey per meter of furrow (3.15 or 2.49Lm(-2), respectively) by gravity flow without incorporation to two ...

The importance of increasing animal production based on pastures has been discussed (Osechas and Becerra, 2009; Chacón, 2013). application management strategies in grasslands contributed to improving the quality quantity forage species used feeding animals with high nutritional requirements, such as dairy cattle (Perozo, 2011). This made it possible improve efficiency profitability livestock sy...