Since 1994, Mozambique has made considerable progress in reducing its dependence on imported basic foodstuffs, raising agricultural production while macro-economic conditions have improved impressively. However, the majority of the rural populace continues to be poor, depending principally on semi-subsistence agriculture to survive. While land access is still relatively good, there is little us...

The world population is expected to reach 9.1 billion by year 2050 says FAO (World Food and Agriculture Organization) and to feed this population food production should be increased by at least 70%. Developing countries have to double their food production. The traditional methods of farming and ever decreasing farm labour availability is making agriculture economically unviable and inefficient...

Many observers have found the public reception to GM crops to be difficult to fathom because it departs substantially from our experiences in technological innovation in American agriculture. While there have been conflicts over new technology in agriculture in American history—for example, over cotton mechanization in the South during the 1930s and 1940s which led to the massive migration of e...

dispersion and separated of agricultural lands are considered as the serious barriers of agriculture development. the smallest and distributed oflands are obstacle in the efficient use of water, land, labor, mechanization and other factors in agriculture production. the main purpose of this article is analyse the influenced factors of the rejection of land integration. the statistical populatio...

introduction with the growth in population and increase in the demand for more food it is required to make more investments in agricultural sector. the investment involves using mechanization in agricultural activities. among the most important measures that should be sufficient to push the modernization of the agricultural sector, it is the development and application of technology. to improve...

Increased cost of tobacco cultivation is a major concern for its sustainable production in Iran. Therefore, the development of tobacco mechanized cultivation is a necessity. Given this, the driving and inhibiting factors of the development of mechanized tobacco cultivation were investigated by the Delphi technique in three rounds in Guilan Province, Iran. Nineteen experts from the Jahad Agricul...

Conservation tillage and even no tillage as a practice is not new. However, there appears to exist evidence that in some cases no-tillage is successfully incorporated into a new concept of truly sustainable agriculture, gaining popularity as “conservation agriculture” all over the world. Conservation Agriculture is, besides no-tillage and direct planting, based on very old concepts such as gree...