A field survey through questionnaire was conducted in rice-prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii)-fish culture ghers six villages of Khulna, Satkhira and Bagerhat districts south-west Bangladesh during March to December, 2008 assess present practices. About 10-25% the total area land converted for building canals dikes remaining were used rice cultivation. Boro with prawn fish appeared have positive...

The characteristic features of Japanese agriculture are rice production and its highly mechanized small scale farming system due to the limited land space. Agricultural production system in mechanization has been currently changed from mass production system to flexible manufacturing system, which became already much popular in industrial production one. This can be explained that the target cr...

The objective of the research is to develop a robot farming system using multiple robots. The research will discuss the application of multiple robots in Japan agriculture for rice, wheat and soybean. The robot farming system includes a rice planting robot, a seeding robot, a robot tractor, a combine robot harvester and various implements attached on the robot tractor. One of the key elements o...

—Worldwide, rice (Oryza sativa) agriculture typically involves seasonal flooding and soil tillage, which provides a variety of microhabitats and potential food for birds. Water management in rice fields creates conditions ranging from saturated mud flats to shallow (<30 cm) water, thereby attracting different guilds of birds. Grain not collected during harvest (i.e. waste rice) is typically the...

or are they resolved? Both the ants and the termites cultivate their fungal crops in monocultures. This is remarkable, because there is ample genetic variation of fungal strains across colonies so that horizontal transmission should at least occasionally (in the ants) or regularly (in most termites) establish genetically variable fungus gardens. In the ants, monocultures are actively enforced b...

To meet the World's food demand, there is a growing need for sustainable pest management practices. This study describes the results from complementary laboratory and field studies of a "banker plant system" for sustainable management of the rice brown planthopper (BPH) (Nilaparvata lugens Stål) - the economically most important rice pest in Asian rice growing areas. The banker plant system con...