ITTAI HERRMANN†, MICHAEL BERENSTEIN‡, AMIT SADE§, ARNON KARNIELI∗†, DAVID J. BONFIL¶ and PHYLLIS G. WEINTRAUB| †The Remote Sensing Laboratory, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boker, Israel ‡The Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel §Biobee Ltd., Sde Eliyahu, Israel ¶F...

EFFECTS OF SOIL SALINITY IN THE GROWTH OF AMBROSIA ARTEMISIIFOLIA BIOTYPES COLLECTED FROM ROADSIDE AND AGRICULTURAL FIELD Seok Hyun Eom a , Antonio DiTommaso b & Leslie A. Weston c a Department of Horticultural Biotechnology , Kyung Hee University , Yongin , Republic of Korea b Department of Crop and Soil Sciences , Cornell University , Ithaca , New York , USA c Plant Biology and Weed Science, ...

The key objective of agricultural protectionism is reflected in the protection and developing of agriculture sector. Integrated parts of this policy in the European Union are the initial model of agricultural protectionism and a new strategy of agricultural policy, which emerged as a response to the shortcomings of previously existing model. The paper presents the key reforms of agricultural po...

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The paper presents the recent development and application of image analysis and computer vision systems in sorting and grading of products in the field of agricultural and food. Basic concepts and technologies associated with computer vision, a tool used in image analysis and automated sorting and grading is highlighted. For the ever-increasing population, losses in handling and processing and ...

Currently Chinese agriculture is facing a serious challenge of the natural risk, market risk and information risk, etc. At the same time, agricultural risk management is under the constraints of concept, capital investment, information sharing, and legal conditions. From the perspective of the information integrated services, this paper made efforts to provide some information and strategy supp...

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Exposure of nontarget populations to agricultural chemicals is an important aspect of global change. We quantified the capacity of natural Daphnia magna populations to locally adapt to insecticide exposure through a selection experiment involving carbaryl exposure and a control. Carbaryl tolerance after selection under carbaryl exposure did not increase significantly compared to the tolerance o...

Field runoff is an important transport mechanism by which pesticides move into the hydrologic environment of intensive agricultural regions such as California's Central Valley. This study presents a spatially explicit modeling approach to extend Pesticide Root Zone Model (PRZM), a field-scale pesticide transport model, into basin level. The approach was applied to simulate chlorpyrifos use in t...