rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies. Abstract-To improve national food security, successive Mali governments have always focused on expanding and intensifying production in the government-managed irrigation schemes (Office du Niger), which account for about 50%...

In order to overcome the low diagnostic accuracy of traditional blast visual defects, set cold rice blast for example, four data groups has been acquainted through near infrared spectroscopy, the first group is healthy and diseased planting stock; the second group is three diseased levels of leaf blast; the third group is five diseased levels of grain blast; the forth group is four diseased lev...

Structural breaks and existence of outliers in time series variables results in misleading forecasts. We forecast wheat and rice prices by capturing the exogenous breaks and outliers using Automatic modeling. The procedure identifies the outliers as the observations with large residuals. The suggested model is compared on the basis of Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Percentage E...

the traditional fuzzy operators, such as t-norms, t-conorms and averaging operators have been used for soil suitability evaluation to aggregate criteria as an overall suitability index. however, such operators do not account for the degree of compensation common to human aggregation criteria, especially in the presence of conflicting criteria. fuzzy integrals are powerful and flexible aggregati...

Kurozu (or Kurosu) is traditional Japanese black vinegar made by prolonged fermentation of unpolished rice that contains rice germ and rice bran [1]. While there are several preparation methods, one native to Kagoshima prefecture involves drying the fermented product in the sun for more than a year in earthenware jars. The liquid concentrate after drying is called Kurozu and the sediment at the...

In traditional way of rice irrigation in the Heilongjiang region, there are many problems such as huge consumption of water, complex wiring and cold water harm. To improve these problems, the intelligent irrigation control system based on PLC and configuration software is designed. The data acquisition and monitoring of water level and water temperature and other parameters are carried through ...

Introduction One of the tragic consequences of rice policies in The Gambia over the past twenty years is how severely they undermined the domestic rice sector. Between 1966-1984, international development assistance had promoted irrigation projects on the country's abundant alluvial swamps. The objective was to create surpluses for national demand by growing the second crop by irrigation. Doubl...

Rice field art is a large-scale art form in which people design rice fields using various kinds of ornamental rice plants with different leaf colors. Leaf color-related genes play an important role in the study of chlorophyll biosynthesis, chloroplast structure and function, and anthocyanin biosynthesis. Despite the role of different metabolites in the traditional relationship between leaf and ...

OBJECTIVES 1. Evaluate the effect of washing and cooking iron-fortified rice on iron retention and bioavailability. 2. Evaluate the effect of iron-fortified rice on women with iron deficiency anemia. METHODS 1. Iron-fortified rice (18 mg/100 g as FeSO4) was cooked in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (C), rinsed and cooked (RC), fried and cooked (FC), cooked with extra water (CW), or soaked and cooked w...

Scientists at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), based in the Philippines, generate a huge volume of research results emanating from multi-donor-funded projects on rice and ricerelated subject matter. In rice research, as in other fields, there is a strong push to provide free open access to these vital information resources in a variety of modes that are convenient to researcher...