Corn silage serves as a high-energy forage for dairy cows. This is most important for high-producing herds and on farms experiencing problems with making or buying highquality hay crop forage. Corn silage, with its relatively highenergy content, is also well adapted for use in low-cost rations for fattening cattle. Corn silage requires less labor per ton to produce than many other forage crops....

We propose the semiparametric small area estimator under the partially linear model. Unlike the linear mixed models widely used in the small area estimation, which assume that the area effect is the random effect, we model the area effect as the unknown function of an area-indicative variable. We represent the nonparametric part for area effect using penalized splines, by which the estimation a...

in order to investigate biodiversity of industrial crop in iran, an investigation was made based on the statistical data available on acreage and production of this crop in the country. cultivated area of industrial crop from 29 provinces were analyzed and shannon biodiversity index was calculated. the highest biodiversity index compare to the total crop species was observed in golestan, semnan...

*Corresponding author Email : [email protected] INTRODUCTION In India agriculture plays a strategic role as this sector is the mainstay of the country’s economy. About 18% of the national income is from this sector which provides employment to about more than half of the work force in the country (Kothai 2011). Significant progress has been made in food grain production in India over t...

Vegetable oil market is becoming of increasing interest in the global biofuel industry. This phenomenon has also interested European Union (EU), where growing expansion production affected by political interventions promoting fuel security and environmental goals. Yet, empirical evidence on impacts that changes price one commodity may have supply another are rather scant. We investigate these d...

Plant-based meat alternatives from grain legumes and oil crops are expected to play an increasing role in human nutrition. Several commercially available products use pea protein isolate as basis rapeseed lipid basis. The aim of the present study is estimate prospective area peas for plant-based EU. A simple calculation model employed assess impacts on land imported deforestation, case substitu...