Many remote sensing applications are devoted to the agricultural sector. Representative case studies are presented in the special issue “Advances in Remote Sensing of Agriculture”. To complement the examples published within the special issue, a few main applications with regional to global focus were selected for this review, where remote sensing contributions are traditionally strong. The sel...

Executive Summary Senegal is one of the lead producers of groundnuts, also known as peanuts, in the world. Since groundnuts are a cash crop and food crop in Senegal, their production contributes significantly to food security, poverty reduction, livestock feeding, and national trade development. In response to rising global food prices in early 2008, the Government of Senegal (GOS) supported in...

Drought is a common occurrence in Nebraska and agriculture is the primary economic sector affected. Because of repeated and widespread severe drought impacts, more emphasis on drought risk management is warranted. This study develops an agricultural drought risk assessment model using multivariate techniques. The model is specific to corn and soybeans and is able to assess realtime agricultural...

This paper presents the results of an analysis that predicts the scale efficiency of individual farms and analyses the differences in scale efficiency over time and between farms. Representative farm account data for 1985–2006 are used, and the study applies stochastic frontier analysis using an input distance–function approach. The results show that pig farms have improved their input scale ef...

The advantages of precision agriculture in the vegetable growing and high value crop sector may accrue to horticulturists especially with respect to meet quality standards and to carry out selective and subsequent harvesting. However, the implementation and use of site-specific sensor technologies has never been adopted for horticultural purposes in the context of nitrogen fertilization suffici...

Sustainable agricultural production is a paramount goal of many developing countries in order to ensure that foods required for the growing population are available in the right quantity and quality. This paper evaluated the extent of sustainability of the Nigerian crop production sector using secondary data from the FAO statistical database. Inferences of sustainability was made with contingen...

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Agri-environmental programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, provide payments to livestock and crop producers to generate broadly defined environmental benefits and to help them comply with federal water quality regulations, such as those that require manure nutrients generated on large animal feeding operations to be spread on cropland at no greater than agronomic rates. ...

In a situation of increasing accountability and competition for public funding in South Africa, the ARC has to be able to show that its use of public money and both appropriate and effective. Previous studies (Khatri, Thirtle & van Zyl, 1996) have shown that the ROR to public sector agricultural R&D in South Africa is over forty percent. This collection of disaggregated studies estimate rates o...

South Asia is gradually diversifying its crop sector in favour of high value commodities, especially fruits, vegetables and spices. If carried out appropriately, diversification can be used as a tool to augment farm income, generate employment, alleviate poverty and conserve precious soil and water resources. In India in the state of West Bengal diversification in cropping pattern is a very rec...