Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) play an important role in rural economic growth and farmers’ revenue increase. A key issue in NTFP development is the competitiveness of different products or the same product in different regions. Using production data for main NTFPs, such as citrus, bamboo shoots, waxberry and green-tea in Zhejiang, this paper estimates the Efficiency Advantage Index (EAI), ...

in order to investigate the effects of cattle manure, benefit fungi of trichoderma species and psudomunas spp. bacteria on seedling emergence parameters, growth and yield of wheat (triticum aestivum l.) a pot experiment was carried out in factorial (23) arrangement based on a randomized complete design with three replications. the treatments were three levels of cattle manure (10, 20 and 30 t.h...

the application of laser in dentistry is considered as a favorable technique for patients due to its many advantages compare to other current methods. one of the main goals in pediatric dentistry is to provide the treatment as comfortable as possible without any risks for the care. laser is being used in different pediatric dental conditions including caries detection, caries removal and cavity...

a field experiment was conducted at college of aburaihan, university of tehran, iran in 2007 to evaluate the herbicides efficacy in a marigold nursery to control weeds including annual flowers. experimental design was a rcbd with total 12 treatments replicated four times. treatments were trifluralin preplant incorporated at two and three li/ha, trifluralin preplant non incorporated at two and t...

Direct use of poultry manure (PM) as an organic fertilizer in agriculture may cause environmental concerns; therefore, application of its biochar might be an effective solution. A greenhouse experiment was conducted to investigate the influence of PM and its biochar (PMB) (control, 1% and 2% PM (w/w), 1% and 2% (W/W) PMB) on the growth and micronutrients concentration of corn under salinity str...

in order to study the effects of soil and foliar application of fe-eddha on some biochemical and physiological traits in safflower under two irrigation regimes an experiment was conducted in 2008 growing season in research field of faculty of agriculture, shahed university. the experimental design was a split-plot based on randomized complete blocks with four replications. mainplots consisted o...