The effects of soil management systems on root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne incognita) eggs and gall incidence on tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus) following tomato were evaluated. Soil was collected from a replicated field experiment in which six management systems were being assessed for vegetable production. Soil management systems were conventional production, or...

The demand of vegetables and fruits are increasing along with the population. But due to expansion settlements, cultivable land is decreasing, especially fellow beside house which suitable for kitchen gardening. paper covers discussion related gardening different socio-economic indicators such as- income, occupation, education, knowledge about gardening, tendency gardeners, attitudes owners reg...

Small farmers in many tropical developing countries practice swidden agriculture. A key aspect of swidden agriculture is the time period during which the land is left fallow. This paper uses a new ecological-economic approach to study the fallow period and to determine the optimal length of this period in swidden agriculture. We first construct a theoretical model of a parcel of forest land tha...

The flea beetle Aphthona whitfieldi Bryant (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is the main pest of the bioenergy crop Jatropha curcas L. (Euphorbiaceae) in Burkina Faso and several other West African countries. Adults severely defoliate plants, resulting in seedling mortality, poor growth, and low yields. To study the population dynamics of the pest in the Sissili Province of Burkina Faso, 12 sites wer...

California signed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) into law in 2014. SGMA requires groundwater-dependent regions to halt overdraft and develop plans reach an annual balance of pumping recharge. aquifers can be recharged by flooding agricultural fields when fallow, but this has not been option for perennial crops such as fruit nut trees. While these might possible during dormant...

Machine learning algorithms recently have made major advances, with decision tree classifiers gaining wide acceptance. Boosting and bagging of decision trees have added to the predictive capabilities of these approaches. Object-oriented (O-O) analyses have been developed during this same period, offering important improvements in classification over pixel-based approaches under certain conditio...

Agricultural production in India is highly vulnerable to climate change. Transformational change farming systems required cope with this changing maintain food security, and ensure remain economically viable. The south Asian rice-fallow occupying 22.3 million ha about 88% India, mostly (82%) concentrated the eastern states, are under threat. These currently provide economic security for 11 peop...

the purpose of this research was to analyze the impact of agronomic land use change to orchard in the west of urmia lake basin. the target population was about 12000 consisting of all the farmers in the west of urmia lake basin that changed their agronomic land use to orchard. using cochran’s formula and stratified random sampling method, 150 apple and grape growers were chosen. required data w...