The paper presents the recent development and application of image analysis and computer vision systems in sorting and grading of products in the field of agricultural and food. Basic concepts and technologies associated with computer vision, a tool used in image analysis and automated sorting and grading is highlighted. For the ever-increasing population, losses in handling and processing and ...

The cell phone is one of the potential Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in agricultural development especially in developing countries like Bangladesh. Thus, this paper deals with the farmers’ communication with the agricultural extension agents using mobile phone. The study was conducted in Mymensingh District in Bangladesh. Data were collected from a sample of 110 farmers while b...

abstract the aim of this study was to assess the affects of agricultural extension programs on the promotion of the efficiency, knowledge and technical expertise of farmers. the study also aimed to analyze the factors affecting the acceptance of agricultural extension programs with regards to process of agricultural development. a survey consisting of 137 samples was conducted between wheat far...

To integrate application systems under heterogeneous environments has gradually become a pressing demand for most agricultural enterprise. The vast diversity of implementation technologies increases the complexity of applications integration. With the aim of facilitating the development of integration solutions, we propose the specification of application integration. To achieve this, we analyz...

The expensive nature of metal ions detoxification from wastewater have restricted the use of conventional treatment technologies. Cheap, alternative measures have been adopted to eliminate metal contamination, and adsorptions using agricultural adsorbents seem to be the way forward. The use of agricultural adsorbents for cadmium (II), copper (II) and lead (II) ion removal has gained more intere...

Exemplifed by the “Neetzower Agrarhof Peenetal Ltd.”, a farmstead with arable ground of 1.740 hectares (approx. 4.350 acres), the status and extend of application of modern information and communication technologies in an agricultural large-scale enterprise is represented. Since 1998 the enterprise uses appropriate technologies for precision farming and automated process recording for significa...

[1] Farmers make joint water and land use decisions for economic purposes based in part on water availability and reliability. A two-stage economic production model is developed to examine the effects of hydrologic uncertainty and water prices on agricultural production, cropping patterns, and water and irrigation technology use. The model maximizes net expected farm profit from permanent and a...

Social capital is a concept that can be utilized in any delivery approaches for the efficient transfer of agricultural technologies. Over the decades, technology adoption and diffusion in agriculture have always been a problem with no leap forward solutions in sight. Adoption is defined as a decision to continue full use of an innovation while diffusion is defined as the process by which an inn...

Faced with large-scale food insecurity in the mid-twentieth century, India adopted innovative agricultural technologies as part of the Green Revolution. While these technologies expanded agricultural productivity, this paper argues that the program was a disruptive force to Indian social, economic, and political systems, specifically in the rural setting. An analysis of outcomes of the Green Re...

Agricultural and applied communicators have long focused on distributing new production and management ideas to their agricultural clientele. The conceptual basis for their work is found in diffusion theory developed by Rogers and others in the early 1960s. Diffusion literature grew rapidly in the 1960s and 1970s as it described the path of technological innovation during a period of worldwide ...