The adoption of precision agriculture practices is just starting in Brazil. In Paraná State, ABC Foundation, a research organization owned by farmers, is conducting a strong program of evaluation and adjustment of precision agriculture techniques. The farmers profile in the region, always incorporating new technologies, and the coop environment, make possible the development of such studies. An...

The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of entrepreneurial characteristics of members of technical and engineering companies and agricultural advisory services on their willingness toward entrepreneurial activities. Entrepreneurship development plays an important role in job creation process which can eventually lead to the achievement of sustainable development goals in ag...

Irrigated agriculture has contributed greatly to food security in Asia— and irrigation projects present new opportunities for reducing poverty. This requires that projects deliberately tilt towards the poor. Moreover, policymakers, implementers and managers need to adopt an integrated approach when using irrigation as a pro-poor intervention strategy. With the right institutional and technical ...

This paper describes the experience of the development and deployment of an expert system for cucumber production management under plastic tunnel (CUPTEX). CUPTEX is intended to be used by agricultural extension service within the Egyptian Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), and by private sector. The main objective of developing such systems is to transfer new technology in agromanagement to farmer...

The article analyses the Spanish experience of EU compensatory rural policy in order to contribute to broader debates on the effectiveness of this kind of policy and the role of agriculture in the definition of European rural policies. In the case of Spain, compensatory allowances to mainly mountain farmers had little effect on economic trajectories or social cohesion because of the small sums ...

Evolving complex artifacts as multilingual ontologies is a difficult activity demanding for the involvement of different roles and for guidelines to drive and coordinate them. We present the methodology and the underlying tool that have been used in the context of the Organic.Lingua project for the collaborative evolution of the multilingual Organic Agriculture ontology. Findings gathered from ...

the paper aimed to assess the factors affecting the willingness of tomato producer to produce organic products in alborz province in crop year 2010-11. the collected data was analysis by descriptive analysis and logit econometrics model. the results of descriptive analysis showed among 90 respondents, 42.2% willing for conversion to organic agriculture.  the results of logit model estimation in...