The purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting the sustainability of production systems in Shushtar township. Since agricultural production cooperatives have special importance in the region economy, identifying factors that threaten the sustainable and continuous production is of great importance. This survey has been conducted in crop year 2011 and the required data have been coll...

agricultural sustainability (as) in farming systems has turned into an extremely sensitive issue, which has attracted the attention of most researchers in recent years. the main objective of this survey research was to assess the situation with regard to different levels of farming system sustainability among wheat growing farmers in agricultural production cooperatives in fars province of iran...

1 State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, 2 The Cooperative Innovation Center for Sustainable Pig Production, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, 3 Key Laboratory of Development of Veterinary Diagnostic Products of Ministry of Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China, 4 Hube...

> Seed systems are crucial for sustainable food system outcomes: agricultural sustainability, food security and healthy diets. > Production and distribution, innovation and regulation are the key functions of seed systems, which make a difference to sustainable food systems. > Currently used methods to measure the performance of seed systems concentrate narrowly on their contribution to agricul...

The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of Iowa agricultural education teachers and students about sustainable agriculture. The teacher population for the study included all secondary school agricultural education teachers in Iowa (N=248). A stratified random sample of 60 teachers (schools) was selected, I O from each of the six FFA districts. Teachers in the sample were aske...

This study provides a spatially comprehensive assessment of sustainable agricultural residue removal potential across the United States for bioenergy production. Earlier assessments determining the quantity of agricultural residue that could be sustainably removed for bioenergy production at the regional and national scale faced a number of computational limitations. These limitations included ...

overuse of chemical inputs and inappropriate use of water resources have caused unsustainability in most agricultural regions of marvdasht county in fars province. for an attainment of sustainable production of wheat, it is necessary to design appropriate communicational models for agricultural inputs and for water optimum usage, however, reviewing agricultural development literature revealed t...

The industrialization of the agricultural sector has increased the chemical burden on natural ecosystems. Pesticides are agrochemicals used in agricultural lands, public health programs, and urban green areas in order to protect plants and humans from various diseases. However, due to their known ability to cause a large number of negative health and environmental effects, their side effects ca...

Agricultural residues are the largest near term source of cellulosic biomass for bioenergy production, but removing agricultural residues sustainably requires considering the critical roles that residues play in the agronomic system. Determination of sustainable removal rates for agricultural residues has received significant attention and integrated modeling strategies have been built to evalu...

Production is a key economic activity with potential long-term social benefits that can be thoroughly realised only if governments comply with their duties towards domestic production. Governments are responsible for the production of sustainable agricultural products via appropriate allocation of subsidies and regulation of price policies that would help take advantage of the potentials underl...