Poor access to agricultural market information is a major factor constraining the performance of agricultural markets in developing countries. The search for new strategies for resolving this constraint has led to several ICT-based market information service (MIS) projects in developing countries. At the same time, the rapid penetration of new generation ICT tools (especially mobile phones) has...

Introduction In Italy, grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is one of the least common grain legumes. Today, it is not included in the official statistics of Italy and its survival is due to the praiseworthy action of a small number of farmers in very limited areas of peninsular and insular centralsouthern Italy. Since the Second World War the sharp reduction in cultivation, similarly for other grain...

This article presents a series of multidimensional analysis methods on agricultural factors at county level, performing subsequently a comparison between the results obtained in 2004 and, respectively, in 2008. By applying factor analysis, principal components analysis and hierarchical classes analysis, this article will seek to highlight the main variables that influence the agricultural produ...

The production costs of agricultural enterprises 43 rural areas in the South Russia, which systematically cultivate same types crops: winter and spring grains, pulse crops, maize, sunflower, potatoes open field vegetables, has been investigated. Mathematical tools for cost forecasting long-term planning most competitive species profitable sales on world (grain) domestic product markets are shown.

A system of midseason prediction of winter wheat grain yield based on sensed plant growth properties has been established. However, little research has been conducted to determine the relationship of grain yield, sensed plant data, and soil electrical conductivity (EC). This study was carried out to determine if soil EC could be useful in better predicting wheat grain yield. During 2001 and 200...

The article provides a conceptual analysis of the concept of "mechanism", considers the scientific aspects of economic mechanisms that stimulate the grain production development with the use of innovations. The development of grain production in the country needs strengthening the organizational and economic processes that are in constant improvement of scientific and technological base of grai...

State Key Laboratory of Plant Cell and Chromosome Engineering, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, Beijing 100101, China Institute of Shandong River Wetlands, Laiwu 271100, China State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, CAS, Beijing 100101, China College of Biology, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100193, China The Collab...

1 Institution of Argo-product Processing, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China 2 College of Food Science and Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China + These authors contributed to the paper equally. *Corresponding author, Jianzhong Zhou, Institution of Argo-product Processing, Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Nanjing 210014, China, ...

We assess the comparative advantage and protection of China’s major agricultural crops using a modified Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) and 1996 to 1998 data. We consider the following commodities: early indica rice, late indica rice, japonica rice, south wheat, north wheat, south corn, north corn, sorghum, soybean, rapeseed, cotton, tobacco, sugarcane, and a subset of fruits and vegetables. Consi...

Assessment of the potential CO(2) emission reduction by development of non-grain-based ethanol in China is valuable for both setting up countermeasures against climate change and formulating bioethanol policies. Based on the land occupation property, feedstock classification and selection are conducted, identifying sweet sorghum, cassava, and sweet potato as plantation feedstocks cultivated fro...