Although Bangladesh made some remarkable achievements in reducing poverty and in improving social and economic outcomes in recent decades, about one-third of the rural population still lives below the upper poverty line most of whom depend on agriculture as their primary source of income. One of the reasons for their poverty is the low productivity that results from sub-optimal use of inputs an...

The theory of neoclassical welfare economics largely shaped international and national agricultural policies during the Cold War period. It treated technology as an exogenous factor that could boost agricultural productivity but not necessarily sustainable agriculture. New growth theory, the economic theory of the new knowledge economy, treats technological change as endogenous and argues that ...

Despite a growing population and increasing demands of that population for improved diets, it appears that the world is not close to universal famine (3, 53). There is enough food now produced to feed the world's hungry (54). That people are malnourished or starving is a question of distribution, delivery, and economics, not agricultural limits. The problem is putting the food where the people ...

The formation and evolution of agricultural land uses in the Zhujiang Delta of South China are examined in the light of the dynamics of people and the environment and their interplay. The origin and propagation of agriculture are found to have a close relationship with the climate and sea level changes in the Holocene era. The development of rice cultivation, horticulture, and dike-pond system ...

information and communication technologies (icts) are increasingly influencing human beings and are changing our attitudes towards these technologies. the purpose of this article is to understand the factors influencing the use of icts in agricultural extension through a descriptive research method. the populations were 320 individuals of agricultural extension workers (ews) of isfahan province...

Combining with agricultural production practice, we propose the agriculture wireless and humidity sensor network design, which is based on ZigBee technology. And we use the chip based on the CC2530 ZigBee protocol as the sensor nodes and coordinator nodes for data collection, transmission and display, aiming to realize the agricultural production automation and precision agriculture.

The paper mentioned using SOA framework and the technology of Web Service, aiming at the problem of "Information Isolated Island", specifically for rural information resources, an agricultural information service platform is constructed based on SOA and Web Service. This platform integrates distributed systems and service platforms and it deals with agricultural information by cooperative proce...

1Laboratory of Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DEMETER, 15310 Athens, Greece 3Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AD, UK 4School of Biomedical Scienc...

Sunil Kumar 1,2 , Manisha Mangal 3 , A K Dhawan 4 and Narender Singh 2 * Centre for Plant Biotechnology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University New Campus, Hisar 125 004, India Department of Botany, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra 136 119, India Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering and Technology, Ludhiana 141 001, India CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Regional Research Station, ...