The vertical garden offers an alternative to meet the needs of green space in a limited urban area with upwards planting method. Its function, among others, includes improving air quality, insulating sound and heat, thus, reducing energy consumption. Growblock, result previous research 2018, combines function interlocking wall block planter several design alternatives that can be used indoors o...

Published in Agron. J. 103:123–128 (2011) Published online 22 Nov 2010 Available freely online through the author-supported open access option. doi:10.2134/agronj2010.0316 Copyright © 2011 by the American Society of Agronomy, 5585 Guilford Road, Madison, WI 53711. All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanic...

Abstract Malaysian oil palm plantations contributed 2.7% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2020 and became the world’s second largest producer after Indonesia. Unfortunately, expansion has always been linked to deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, soil erosion. Despite negative environmental repercussions, there is no denying that rapid had beneficial social economic impacts. Therefore, th...

This article invokes the “molecular intimacies of empire” to illuminate links between superfood status coconut oil and plantation labor in American colonial Philippines. Prior occupation 1898, coconuts were a local crop that offered small growers degree protection from capitalist agriculture. A mere two decades later, plantations occupied more than million acres land; copra – dried kernels whic...

This essay examines the significance of Edward Gibbon Wakefield’s theory ‘systematic colonisation’ within transition from Caribbean slavery to settler colonisation reveal sequential relationship these two imperial systems. In context industrialisation and social unrest, anti-slavery movement performed an important purpose for Britain’s ruling classes by simultaneously accruing moral authority s...

Beach and shallow water sand samples from the island of Kauai, Hawaiian Islands, were studied to ascertain the effects of climate 'on the suppl y of sediment, and of wave action on the dispersal and transport of sand along the shores of this circular island. The littoral sediments of the island are made up of two comp onents: biogenous material, such as shell, coral, and foraminiferal sands, fo...

objective: in recent years, farmers have shown great interest to using native drill planter rather than complex planters to grow vegetables. methods: in this study, we tested a native planter independent variables were the two types of substrate surface (asphalt and plowed field), three ground speed (3, 5 and 7 kph) and four types of seeds (tomatoes, onions, radishes and lettuce). dependent var...

The hole forming device is an important element of the buckwheat hill-drop planter, and its design level directly affects seeding quality planter. A with a duckbill structure widely used in planters for wheat, cotton, peanuts, etc. According to requirements operations, this study designs components device. It determined that upper jaw length 65 mm, duckbills number 10, pressure plate on spring ...

Precision planters are important machines in the regime of modern technological agriculture. Field conditions, seed metering system and machine operating parameters affect pneumatic planter performance. The was evaluated to determine effect three tillage levels (L1, L2, L3) four travel speeds (S1, S2*, S3 S4). sowing uniformity observed with respect horizontal distribution seeds within a row de...