The present study aimed to investigate the organic agricultural products supply chain in Iran and provide a processes maturity framework for this chain based on the Iranian Standard of the organic products. Accordingly, the model, proposed in this research, provides an improvement tool that addresses the integration of company's internal processes at low levels, and the integration of the proce...

Traceability system has become an important means for food safety management. Global food industry and many countries have paid increasing attention to the construction of food traceability system, but rarely referred to tracing terminal. According to the technical requirements of cereal and oil products quality safety tracing process, we design and develop a mobile tracing terminal based on GP...

The increasing demand for an increasing array of special forest products is forcing forest landowners and managers to address special products within ongoing management and silvicultural activities. Strategies can vary from single species management in agricultural or near agricultural operations to complex forest management strategies which move special products across an ownership or landscap...

exogeneity and controllabillty of money is a basic assumption in neo-keynesian and monetarist analysis, as well as most contemprory economic macro-models. equilibrium path cattani & cavallo & khan model (j990)1 is employed, and pree & stienhe,2 model (j989) has been used for calculation of the real exchange rate unstability index. the results, indicate negative effects of real exchange rate dev...

Background & objectives: Irrigation water quality is a critical aspect of agricultural production especially in terms of human health and the environmental aspects. The aim of this study was to estimate the level of surface runoff and groundwater pollution used in the production of agricultural products in the south of Tehran. Methods: Sampling points included 14 points of surface water collec...

By analyzing the current situation of inventory management of enterprises of fresh agricultural products in Handan city as an example and based on the nature of fresh agricultural products, this paper points out the defect and disadvantage of single classification standard of ABC classification method in inventory classification; and applies the improved classification method based on ABC class...

Published by the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) and issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Andrew G. Hashimoto, Director/Dean, Cooperative Extension Service/CTAHR, University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822. An equal opportunity/affirmative action inst...

The effects of the institutional determinants on trade in agricultural and food products are analyzed using a gravity model approach. We focus on the impact of the quality of governance and the similarity of institutions in explaining variation in bilateral agricultural and food trade patterns among the OECD countries. Results confirmed the separate effects for the institutional similarity and ...

Many new technologies involving agricultural commodities will not be final consumer products, rather they will be inputs into the manufacture of other products. The new technologies may be new manufacturing processes (to accommodate a new raw material), or intermediate products that will be used in the production of other products (e.g., plastics are used to manufacture final consumer products)...