Crop protection is a key activity for farmers. There is a need to improve the practice and use less chemical pesticides. We hypothesized that farmers may be overwhelmed by the amount of data available. Therefore we proposed the concept of crop protection decision workflow system (CPDeWS) to guide them in interpreting the information in tactical adjustments of treatment decisions. We provide her...

This study aimed at investigative decision support systems for assisting strategic and tactical decision making of smallholder farmers to reduce climate risks and increase crop productivity of semi-arid areas. Specifically, the study assessed farm-level decisions used by the farmers for reducing climate risks; examined information communication and knowledge sharing strategies for enhancing dec...

A sharp decline in the availability of arable land and sufficient supply of irrigation water along with a continuous steep increase in food demands have exerted a pressure on farmers to produce more with fewer resources. A viable solution to release this pressure is to speed up the plant breeding process by employing biotechnology in breeding programs. The majority of biotechnological applicati...

1 Introduction The incongruous juxtaposition of my title, " The Lighthouse and the Potato, " refers to two public goods of incalculable value – safe navigation and crop genetic resources. Neither lighthouse keepers nor the farmers who cultivate genetic diversity in potatoes and other crops provide their respective benefits to humankind without cost. The costs of lighthouses are relatively easy ...

Potential growth of dairy sector is highest and more reliable compared to crop sector, indicating that dairy sector can play vital role to increase income among farmers in rural areas than crop sector in Sri Lanka. Credit and farmer training in management ability have been major concerns of dairy development efforts. Therefore, this study wasconductedto assess the impact of credit and farmer tr...

The study aims an investigating for the implication of tree based land use pattern to smallholder farmers’ food insecurity coping mechanism. Information on household characteristics, purpose of land use practices, household food security situation and tree based land use has contributed to household food security were collected through household interviews. About 11% of the total households wer...

The root cause of agricultural land degradation and decreasing productivity – as seen in terms of loss of soil health -is our low soil-carbon farming paradigm of intensive tillage which disrupts and debilitates many important soil-mediated ecosystem functions. For the most part agricultural soils in tillage-based farming without organic surface residue protection are becoming de-structured and ...

Cleveland, David A. (Department of Anthropology and the Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106-3210, USA, clevelan@lifesci.ucsb.edu), Daniela Soleri (Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona, 1955 E 6th St, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA; current address, Center for People, Food and Environment, 340 Arboleda, Santa Barbara, CA 93110, USA, and Institute fo...

Cleveland, David A. (Department of Anthropology and the Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara 93106-3210, USA, clevelan@lifesci.ucsb.edu), Daniela Soleri (Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona, 1955 E 6 th St, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA; current address, Center for People, Food and Environment, 340 Arboleda, Santa Barbara, CA 93110, USA, and Institute f...

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the staple food and second most important food crop after rice in the country, which contributes nearly one-third of the total food grains production. It is consumed mostly in the form of bread as “Chapati”. Wheat straw is used for feeding cattle. Wheat contains more protein than other cereal and has a relatively high content of niacin and thiamine [1]. It is bas...