This article describes challenges faced by agricultural production and marketing in the era of big data, and then builds the agricultural market information matching platform based on HADOOP & NUTCH combining cloud computing technology, finally details its layers and key technologies, including the use of open source search engine to capture the whole network market information to build agricul...

Using models to capture requirements and to initialize operations concepts for new product development has received attention in the Eighth Annual INCOSE Symposium in Vancouver, with the result that the requirements handling process itself is more efficient. The document-driven design methodology is replaced with models that state subsystem-level requirements in executable form. However, most "...

The objective was to evaluate the effect of feeding narasin (Skycis; Elanco Animal Health, Greenfield, IN) on growth performance and carcass characteristics of finishing pigs sold in a 3-phase marketing system. Pigs ( = 1,232) were housed in 56 single-sex pens (22 pigs/pen) divided into 2 even blocks based on initiation of treatment. Each treatment × sex combination was replicated 14 times. Pig...

Cocoyam is highly seasonal and perishable. An efficient wholesale marketing system makes its consumption, round the year possible, reduces postharvest losses for greater margin. This study examined determinants of margin efficiency cocoyam in Southeast, Nigeria. The specific objectives were to examine socio-economic characteristics marketers, estimate factors wholesalers affecting their net Mul...