76 Abstract— Monitoring of environmental factors is very important over the last few decades. In particular, monitoring agricultural environments for various factors such as temperature, moisture, humidity along with other factors can be of more significance. A traditional approach to measuring these factors in an agricultural environment meant individuals manually taking measurements and check...

Some graduate education programs support experiential learning but do not require practical experiences for students specializing in international agriculture development. We examined U.S. land grant university agricultural program descriptions requirements and found them lacking. The literature surrounding volunteerism is reviewed examples are described. International can fill the experience g...

Rural history and implementing agri-policy are mirrored in an agricultural landscape. No doubt, the basic structure and composition of agricultural landscape depends on local climatic and natural conditions. There is a close connection between agricultural landscape management and biodiversity management at the gene, species and habitat level. The purpose of this paper is to present four ways t...

In recent years, there have been major advances in the development of new and more powerful perception systems for agriculture, such as computer-vision and global positioning systems. Due to these advances, the automation of agricultural tasks has received an important stimulus, especially in the area of selective weed control where high precision is essential for the proper use of resources an...

Current heavy reliance on agricultural chemicals in US agriculture has raised many environmental and economic concerns. Farmers need to find a way of optimal application of agricultural chemicals. Among agricultural chemicals, nitrogen (N) is the most important and essential for growing crops. In this research, a nitrogen sensor was developed to assess nitrogen status of corn plants and to appl...

since insuring agricultural products is one of the effective instruments for risk management in agricultural sector, it can reduce risk avoidance among farmers and increase their competence in using production factors and, consequently, increases their inclination towards investment in agricultural sectors. the purpose of the current study was to investigate the factors influencing policyholder...

Hiroaki KITAZAWA*, Naoko HASEGAWA, Masayasu NAGATA, Machiko FUKUDA, Shin-ichi WATANABE, Atsushi YAMASAKI, Atsuko URAGAMI Food Engineering Division, National Food Research Institute, NARO, Tsukuba, Japan Vegetable Production Technology Division, NARO Institute of Vegetable and Tea Science, Tsukuba, Japan Horticulture Research Division, NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, Kurume, Ja...