nt matter & 2007 IAgrE. emseng.2007.03.037 hor. : [email protected] Research on the incidence and effectiveness of natural crusting on slurry storage as a means of ammonia emission abatement was undertaken in studies at farm-scale, pilotscale and on a small-scale. At the farm-scale, slurry crusting was found to be commonplace across a large proportion (ca 80%) of slurry storage facilities, d...

Farmers in Nepal lose up to one-third of stored grain pests and diseases. This results food insecurity loss income. To mitigate these losses, farmers use several approaches including pesticide applications on grains. We interviewed 241 Bagmati Province, Nepal, assess the current on-farm storage practices challenges improve postharvest management. The show that rice was most crop (median 1150 kg...

Best management practices (BMPs) are being implemented to reduce non-point sources pollution in China and worldwide. There are many types of agricultural BMPs, but their effectiveness differs from farm to farm, depending on where they are applied, how they are applied, and how they are impacted by weather. Two farms (village Nan Wayao, VNWY and village Liu Jianfang, VLJF) with differing farm sy...

One consequence of anthropogenic habitat alteration is that many nonhuman primates are forced into conflict interactions with humans and their livelihood activities, especially through crop raiding. These problems are particularly acute for the endemic and threatened Buton Island macaque (Macaca ochreata brunnescens), in southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. Our study investigated the crop raiding beh...