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In weed control, precision agriculture can help to greatly reduce the use of herbicides, resulting in both economical and ecological benefits. A key element is ability locate segment all plants from image data. Modern instance segmentation techniques achieve this, however, training such systems requires large amounts hand-labelled data which expensive laborious obtain. Weakly supervised labelli...

©1999–2008 CHOICES. All rights reserved. Articles may be reproduced or electronically distributed as long as attribution to Choices and the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association is maintained. Choices subscriptions are free and can be obtained through http://www.choicesmagazine.org. AAEA Agricultural & Applied Economics Association A publication of the Agricultural & Applied Economics As...

©1999–2009 CHOICES. All rights reserved. Articles may be reproduced or electronically distributed as long as attribution to Choices and the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association is maintained. Choices subscriptions are free and can be obtained through http://www.choicesmagazine.org. AAEA Agricultural & Applied Economics Association A publication of the Agricultural & Applied Economics As...

Despite the fact that the usage of foliar nutrients has long history, many aspects of fertilization through leaves are still unknown. Herein, we review the current knowledge regarding the canopy fertilization putting special emphasis on Fe nutrition and briefly provide insights into the nanofertilizer technology of the foliar feeding of fruit crops. In addition, this paper discusses the main as...

1Department of Food Technology and Nutrition, Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent, Belgium 2Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, Ghent University, Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent, Belgium •E-mail: [email protected], Tel. +32 9/2646163...

We detail the rewards and barriers to participating in multidisciplinary research (MDR) using a 2011 survey of applied economists at U.S. universities. We compare these findings with an earlier 1993 survey to assess if rewards and barriers have changed over time. Different administrative levels of U.S. universities are sending contradictory signals regarding rewards from MDR. External funding a...

entrepreneurship courses had a tremendous potential to improve the knowledge and skills of thestudents in agricultural applied-scientific education centers (aasecs) to make a business aftergraduating. this study was designed to analyze barriers of entrepreneurship education coursesdelivering in aasecs in fars province. the population of the study consisted of all 1018 students infour aasecs in ...