Agro-industrial wastes such as sugarcane bagasse, wheat bran, rice bran, corn cob and wheat straw are cheapest and abundantly available natural carbon sources. The present study was aimed to production of amylase and xylanase simultaneously using agro-industrial waste as the sole carbon source. Seven thermophilic strains of actinomycete were isolated from the mushroom compost. Among of these, s...

Publishing agro-environmental resources to a linked open data (LOD) cloud requires publishers to adopt a set of universally recognized linked data principles. These principles, along with semantic annotations based on shared domain ontologies can ensure the semantic integration of agro-environmental resources. In this paper we present a resource-publishing system, called AGROPub, that we develo...

This paper poses and tests a new model of the location of plants that process ubiquitously supplied ‘von Thünen’ inputs such as raw farm output. The new model rationalizes why agro-industry is city-located but resource-oriented. It demonstrates the significance of relative transport costs in agroindustry location. Furthermore, we present a unprecedented direct test/empirical confirmation of est...

this study determined the situation of rural tourism and agro-tourism in tehran province as well as the expected economic impacts of agro-tourism development on it. in this research, we used documental research method and field research based on questionnaires and face-to-face interview. it was found out that despite different tourist attractions in rural areas of tehran province, tourist arriv...

The purpose of this study is to investigate key characteristics for the competitiveness in Greek agro-firms during the time period 2004 to 2011, based on firm level financial data. The study attempts to determine the firms’ efficiency as well as the impact of exporting activity in agro-firms competitiveness, and more specifically in fisheries, farms with livestock and farms with fruits, vegetab...

Since the online agro-products information is difficult to assess, it is critical for consumers to foster consumers’ initial trust in the social commerce (s-commerce) context. On the basis of the existing research, this paper first analyzes the connotation of agro-products communication based on s-commerce. Then, it combines the inherent characteristics of agro-products, and takes the consumer ...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an important and manageable property of soils that impacts on multiple ecosystem services through its effect on soil processes such as nitrogen (N) cycling and soil physical properties. There is considerable interest in increasing SOC concentration in agro-ecosystems worldwide. In some agro-ecosystems, increased SOC has been found to enhance the provision of ecosyst...

1 Ph.D., post-doctoral studies at Department of Agro-industrial Management and Technology-FCA/UNESP-Botucatu e-mail: [email protected] 2 Professor, Department of Animal Production – FMVZ/ UNESP-Botucatu 3 Professor, Department of Agro-industrial Management and Technology FCA/ UNESP-Botucatu 4 Ph.D. student in Animal Science FMVZ/ UNESP-Botucatu 5 Department of Agro-industrial Managemen...

Carbon dioxide production during composting of agro-waste can be taken as the indicator of rate, progress and termination of compost phenomenon and stabilization of organic matter, leading to a balanced compromise between complexity of mathematical model and extensive experimentation. Modeling and simulation of composting of agro-wastes based on experimentally measured carbon dioxide production...

The alkaline-tolerant marine-derived fungus Chaetomium globosum was tested for the production of enhanced levels of cellulases and free phenolics under highly alkaline conditions using agro wastes (cotton seed, sugar cane bagasse) as substrates under solid state fermentation (SSF) processes. In both the agro wastes used, an increase in cellulases (β-endoglucanase, β-Glucosidase, and β-exoglucan...