The Farmer Field School (FFS) is an intensive training program providing farmers with science based knowledge and practices, including integrated pest management (IPM). Recently there has been intensive debate as to whether or not this kind of training has any significant impact. Most case studies argue that the impact, in terms of a farmer’s ability to reduce the use or pesticides while increa...

The precollege summer program at the authors’ university is an opportunity for students in grades 11 and 12 to experience college living for 2 weeks. Each student enrolls in one college-level course, which meets daily for 3 hours, and participates in social activities and other programming to support their understanding of college life. Most stay overnight in campus dormitories. The authors’ sc...

Sharad S Lodhi 1,5 , Rohit Farmer 2 , Atul Kumar Singh 3 , Meenu Wadhwa 4 , Yogesh K Jaiswal 5 and Gulshan Wadhwa 1 * Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi 110 003, India Department of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Jacob School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering Sam Higginbottom Istitute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad 211 007...

Solar power is used as only the source of power to control the overall system. Sensors are placed on the paddy field and these sensors continuously sense the water content and give the message to the farmer. Without visiting the paddy fields, farmers can get the information about the Moisture content and farmer can control the pump set by sending a message from his cellular phone even from a re...

This paper presents the development of a bivalve farmer agent interacting with a realistic ecological simulation system. The purpose of the farmer agent is to determine the best combinations of bivalve seeding areas in a large region, maximizing the production without exceeding the total allowed seeding area. A system based on simulated annealing, tabu search, genetic algorithms and reinforceme...

In past couple of decades, there is immediate growth in field of agricultural technology. Utilization of proper method of irrigation by drip is very reasonable and proficient. A various drip irrigation methods have been proposed, but they have been found to be very luxurious and dense to use. The farmer has to maintain watch on irrigation schedule in the conventional drip irrigation system, whi...