This study analyzes characteristics determining member’s willingness to invest in cooperatives using ordered logit model. The data were collected in a field survey among 122 cooperative members in north-central China. The descriptive analysis of survey evidence suggests that cooperatives in China generally having poor ability to deliver the processing services related to product package, gradin...

For researches and information services of space weather, it is important to establish a comprehensive system which enables us to analyze observation and simulation data in an integrated manner. For this, we constructed recently a new computing environment called the “Space Weather Cloud Computing System” of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT). Now, the Sp...

Milk in its natural state is a highly perishable material because it is susceptible to rapid spoilage by the action of naturally occurring enzymes and contaminating microbes. Good hygiene practice from the farm to dairy, effective refrigeration regimes, reduction of storage times and technologies for reduction of spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms are basic measures needed to be accomplishe...

The main objective of CRP 1.1 Dryland Systems is to achieve sustainable agricultural development in the drylands. On the technical level, it will aim at reducing demand for water per unit crop area, improving water capture and storage, increasing productivity per unit of water at farm and landscape levels, and changing land-use practices to better manage risk and sustainably enhance production ...

In the European Union, groundwater should contain less than 50 mg of nitrate/L. Individual countries have developed alternative strategies for phosphorus (P). In The Netherlands, regulations based on P limited the amount of manure applied per hectare. A more balanced P supply to the land has been achieved by transport of manure from surplus to deficit regions. Costs of processing of manure to p...

This paper provides evidence on how the variability of power produced by a wind farm and its revenue are affected implementing ramp-rate limitation strategy adding storage device to system. The receives penalties whenever limitations not respected may be supported batteries avoid this scenario. In paper, we model battery usage as discrete time homogeneous Markov chain with rewards thanks which ...