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BACKGROUND A major global challenge is to provide agricultural production systems that are able to sustain growing demands for food, feed, fibre and renewable raw materials without exacerbating climate change. Detailed and reliable data on the CO(2) balance of different agricultural management activities and inputs as a basis to quantify carbon footprints of agriculture are still lacking. This ...

A model of fractional-order of thermoelasticity is applied to study a 2D problem of mode-I crack in a fibre-reinforced thermal environment. The crack is under prescribed distributions of heat and pressure. The normal mode analysis is applied to deduce exact formulae for displacements, stresses, and temperature. Variations of field quantities with the axial direction are illustrated graphically....

MANY papers dealing with the composition and digestibility of forage crops are to be found in the literature, but the analyses are usually restricted to those few groups included in the conventional methods of agricultural analysis. These rarely extend beyond the determination of ash, or mineral constituents, crude protein, crude fibre and ether-soluble material. The sum of these analyses is fa...

Barley, Hordeum vulgare Linn. (family: Gramineae) is an important cereal crop of Rabi season grown in India. The chapattis made up of barley flour are very palatable and can be easily digested even by the persons suffering from stomach ailments. Besides an ideal feed and fodder for livestock, the crop has acquired the status of an industrial crop in malting and brewing. This crop could perform ...

DURING the past few years, an extended study has been made in these laboratories of the chemistry of certain constituents of the forage grasses, the nitrogenous substances and the fats and waxes having received particular attention. Samples of a number of grasses of pure strain and known history being available, the opportunity was taken to examine the cell-wall substances of certain of these. ...

Banana is a well known fruit crop and grown extensively in Indian peninsula. In fact, India is the leading producer of this perennial crop. It is estimated that, after harvest of fruits, huge quantity of biomass residues (60t/ha – 80/t ha) is left over as waste that constitutes pseudo stem, leaves, sucker etc. There exists a vast potential of extracting fibres from the banana pseudo stem. It is...

Abstract Bambara groundnut ( Vigna subterranea L. Verdc; BGN) is an important legume grown mainly by small-scale subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, parts of Thailand and Indonesia. It has a high concentration seed carbohydrate (55–70%), protein (17–25%), fat (1.4–12%) dietary fibre (5.2–6.4%). A range biotic abiotic stresses together with socio-economic constraints affect its productivi...

Abstract Zohary and Hopf coined the term ‘founder crops’ to refer a specific group of eight plants, namely three cereals (einkorn, emmer barley), four legumes (lentil, pea, bitter vetch chickpea), fibre/oil crop (flax), that founded early Neolithic agriculture in southwest Asia. considered these taxa as first cultivated domesticated species, well those agricultural communities exploited eventua...