Due to the increase of production costs in manual harvesting, strategies must be developed in order to overcome these effects, such as the attempts in implementing agricultural machines in harvest activities, whether being totally or partially mechanized. This study brings a qualitative and quantitative comparison on the impacts in work conditions and productivity in Brazilian orchards caused b...

stand establishment in crusting soil is one of the main concerns in the production of crops with delicate seedlings such as cotton, onions and rape seed. crust breaking, maintaining soil moisture and adding chemical and organic amendments to soil are different methods to weaken soil strength and allow the shoots to emerge. these methods are not always successful because they depend on factors s...

A field experiment was conducted at Wetland farm, Department of Agronomy, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore during summer 2022 to study the effect growth and yield parameters greengram under different irrigation methods. The laid out in randomized complete block design having seven treatments replicated thrice. treatment are T1: Check basin method (Line sowing), T2: (Broadcasting),...

Shahin, M.A. and Symons, S.J. 2005. Seed sizing from images of non-singulated grain samples. Canadian Biosystems Engineering/Le génie des biosystèmes au Canada 47: 3.49 3.55. Image analysis is a strong candidate for developing automated measurement systems for seed sizing. A unique image analysis (IA) based approach to measuring seed size from non-singulated samples is presented in this paper. ...

We describe our analysis and modeling of the summarization process of Japanese broadcast news. We have studied the entire manual summarization process of the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). The staff of NHK has been making manual summarizations of news text on a daily basis since December 2000. We interviewed these professional abstractors and obtained a considerable amount of news summar...

Mat-type nursery having uniform growth is a prerequisite for mechanized paddy transplanting. Generally, this type of sown manually in the open field or trays. It requires several simultaneous operations and hence laborious time-consuming. The performance tractor-operated mat-type seeder was evaluated at Research Farm Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, during 2019–20 with an objective to ...

Mechanized reasoning uses computers to verify proofs and to help discover new theorems. Computer scientists have applied mechanized reasoning to economic problems but – to date – this work has not yet been properly presented in economics journals. We introduce mechanized reasoning to economists in three ways. First, we introduce mechanized reasoning in general, describing both the techniques an...

Developing countries in Asia widely use manual seed broadcasting methods due to a lack of appropriate seeding machinery. The agricultural sector is currently facing labor shortages and high costs, especially seasonal for transplanting operations. However, the primary constraint adopting existing seeders small-scale farmers developing initial purchase costs. Therefore, locally commercial accessi...