Material based on hydrogel from rice-straw with high absorption capacity and slow water release was prepared by cryogenic method, using citric acid as cross-linker without creating waste stream to the environment. The structure properties of material were characterized SEM, XRD, FTIR TGA method. results showed that largest absorbency reached 30.67g/g, 4.48 times higher than original rice-straw....

Introduction. Modern agricultural land use should be resistant to external and internal factors, organized on the principles of resource optimization digitalization processes, using biologization tools achieve goal related quality products. Achieving this is possible by regulating production process in agrolandscape, namely, analyzing leading agroecological factors (erosion deflation moisture h...

The agricultural information resources is an important data assets, how to rationally plan, share and use of distributed storage of agricultural information resources, efficiently develop agricultural information resources, is the important issue of agricultural information resources needed to resolve. Based on the fully research on the current status of agricultural information systems, manage...

Access to agricultural markets and marketing information are essential factors in promoting competitive markets and improving agricultural sector development. The agricultural sector employs majorities in developing countries and it contributes greatly to the development of these countries. Unluckily, majorities of the farmers are smallholders living in isolated rural areas and thus lack approp...

Agricultural food production and consumption covers activities ranging from agriculture to food consumption. Pollution and food contamination related to the use of production technologies and processes, as well as from the use of products aimed at increasing agricultural yields and facilitating food conservation, have significant environmental consequences. There are a number of important issue...

the study investigated the levels of awareness and use of agricultural insurance scheme in kogi state of nigeria. a total of 240 respondents from eight communities were selected through a multistage random sampling technique. data collected through structured questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistic, percentages and sigma scoring model. the results revealed that farmers in the st...

< p>Successful implementation of land reform requires the implementation of large-scale market transformations, in particular in the structure of land tenure and land use, in the field of land valuation. The article is devoted to the development of scientific and methodological bases of economic evaluation and use of land resources of agricultural enterprises, substantiation of approaches and r...