Drawing from the encouragement of Prof. Norman Uphoff to start SRI in Kenya, the first meeting to plan and introduce SRI was held at the Mwea Irrigation Scheme in July 2009, organized by Prof. Bancy Mati of JKUAT and Markus Moeller (then the Irrigation Specialist at the World Bank office in Kenya). The two drew together some like-minded individuals to form a collaborative team comprised of staf...

Following the global food crisis of the early 1970s, the World Bank has placed a priority on funding agriculture and rural development projects. These projects have been funded with a view to raising the productivity of low-income groups. Projects aimed at increasing the incomes of rural poor must clearly identify the target group and be designed so that they will benefit directly. Some of t...

This paper uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to examine the technical, pure technical, and scale efficiencies of 12 branches of the agricultural bank in Guilan province, Iran over the period of 2012-2016. The first results indicated that scale inefficiency contributed more to overall technical inefficiency than pure technical inefficiency over the studied period. Results of return to scale r...

farmers need up to date information on efficient use and management of labour for agricultural production. yet, they lack adequate and needed information. hence, this study was undertaken to explore the sources and use of labour information by farmers in southwestern nigeria. multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents for the study. primary data were collected to elicit infor...

Image-text retrieval plays a central role in bridging vision and language, which aims to reduce the semantic discrepancy between images texts. Most of existing works rely on refined words objects representation through data-oriented method capture word-object cooccurrence. Such approaches are prone ignore asymmetric action relation texts, that is, text has explicit (i.e., verb phrase) while ima...

The practical aspects of efficient implementation of the Kalman Filter Bank for scenario analysis are considered. Such implementation have to shorten running time, computational cost, and memory demands, required for computer model of the Kalman Filter Bank. The first requirement is met by concurrent computing. The second and third requirements are satisfied by substitution the Equivalent Kalma...

A memory design based on logical banks is analyzed for shared memory mul-tiprocessor systems. In this design, each physical bank is replaced by a logical bank consisting of a fast register and subbanks of slower memory. The subbanks are buuered by input and output queues which substantially reduce the eeective cycle time when the reference rate is below saturation. The principal contribution of...

Due to their streaming nature, memory bandwidth is critical for most digital signal processing applications. To accommodate these bandwidth requirements digital signal processors are typically equipped with dual memory banks that enable simultaneous access to two operands if the data is partitioned appropriately. Fully automated and compiler integrated approaches to data partitioning and memory...