Recent discussions of the way ahead for agriculture have tended to centre around the frequently incompatible claims of the proponents of technological agriculture, now further developed through inputs from biotechnology , and ecological agriculture, of which organic farming is the best known example.There is a need for the claims made for these two versions to be put into a broader scientific a...

Increasing population leads to intensification of water shortage problems in arid regions. Agriculture sector is the main user of water in Iran. Bushehr province with an arid and semiarid climate is located in the south of Iran. Improvement of water productivity (WP), the value or benefit derived from the use of water, is essential in the agriculture sector for achieving food security and susta...

background and objectives: although more than 90 percent of consumed water used in agricultural sector, water is the major limiting factor for agricultural development in iran. over the past few years increasing agricultural crop water productivity thorough deficit irrigation methods has been studied by agricultural researchers and planners. although lorestan province is one of the major produc...

economic growth as an important indicator has always considered by policy makers. in presence of production inputs constraints, the most appropriate way of growing each sector is increase of productivity. in the agricultural sector due to several risks that farmers face as a result of activity in an open environment, productivity is also affected by these risks. because of the importance of agr...

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...

Naeem Akhtar MS Scholar; Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal, Pakistan Saqib Ali and Muhammad Salman MS Scholar; Department of Management Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University Sub Campus Sahiwal, Pakistan Asad-Ur-Rehman MS Scholar; Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Sahiwal, Pakistan Aqsa Ijaz BBA...

The first objective of this study was to investigate the capabilities of ERS-2 SAR data (supplemented by one optical image) for producing fully validated regional area estimates of important crops. This study included the development of a sampling strategy in order to determine whether subsets of the region could be extrapolated to obtain similar area estimates to those obtained for the entire ...