World trade talks have foundered recently, in part due to developing country demands that industrialised countries reduce their large farm support programmes to allow poor farmers in the global South to compete more fairly. But are subsidies really the problem? For some crops – most notably cotton and sugar – Northern subsidies clearly are a root cause of low international prices and unfair com...

this research through comparison study of application of ict on marketing of agricultural crops in khozestan province, evaluate the role of such factors. the study is of applied type and the method being used is descriptive- correlational. statistical population of this research is all agricultural experts of khuzestan province and using cochran’s formula , a sample size of 144 members was sele...

1 Geospatial Information and Remote Sensing Group, Faculty of Engineering and Surveying, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba 4350 QLD Australia, Phone: +61 7 4631-1386, Fax: +61 7 4631-2526 2 CSIRO Exploration and Mining, PO Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Phone: + 61 2 9490-8884, Fax: +61 2 9490-8960 3 Plant Science, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Toowoomba ...

In this study, the aim is to develop a population model based approach to optimize fruit harvesting strategies with regard to fruit quality and its derived economic value. This approach was applied to the case of tomato fruit harvesting under Vietnamese conditions. Fruit growth and development of tomato (cv. "Savior") was monitored in terms of fruit size and color during both the Vietnamese win...

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EC1763 How Windbreaks Work EC1764 Windbreak Establishment EC1766 Windbreaks for Livestock Operations EC1767 Windbreaks for Rural Living EC1768 Windbreak Management EC1770 Windbreak for Snow Management EC1771 Windbreaks and Wildlife EC1772 Windbreaks in Sustainable Agricultural Systems EC1777 Windbreak Renovation EC1778 Field Windbreaks EC1779 Windbreaks for Fruit and Vegetable Crops University ...

1 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, USA and Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India. 2 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, USA. 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, USA. 4 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India. 5 Depart...