to evaluate land suitability of aq-qalla region for rainfed chickpea cropping, boolean logic and analytical hierarchy process (ahp) methods were used in geographic information system (gis). to achieve this, firstly, climatic and agronomical requirements of chickpea,were identified according to scientific resources. then, thematic requirement maps were provided. the studied environmental-compone...

It was established that the territory of farm belongs to following forest categories: forests nature protection, scientific, historical and cultural purposes – 1322.4 ha; recreational health 718 protective 3837.9 exploitation 17,407.7 ha. As a result conducted field research within fund enterprise, it plantations over 100 years old are characterized by predominance common oak with participation...

Submitted for the MAR06 Meeting of The American Physical Society Suppression of Non-Resonant Background in Broadband Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy with Interferometry1 TAK KEE, MARCUS CICERONE, National Institute of Standards and Technology — We demonstrate an interferometric technique for suppressing non-resonant background in broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering ...

This paper presents a world map of organic agriculture. A Gall-Peters projection map of the world is taken as the reference map (where map areas are proportional to territorial areas). Applying the area of organic agriculture to countries, the World Map of Organic Agriculture presents countries as proportional in size to their share of the total of world organic hectares (such a map can be refe...

Abstract While drinking water is known to create significant health risk in arsenic hazard areas, the role of exposure through food intake less well understood, including impact trade. Using best available datasets on crop production, irrigation, groundwater hazard, and international trade flows, we estimate that globally 17.2% irrigated harvested area (or 45.2 million hectares) 42 main crops a...

Human modification of ecosystems is threatening biodiversity on a global scale (Whitmore 1997; W. F.Laurance 1999; Nepstad et aL 1999b; Chapman and Peres 2001). This is illustrated by the fact that an estimated 65.1 million hectares of forest were destroyed between 1990 and 1995 (FAa 1999). Many other areas are affected by forest degradation that involves logging, fire, and hunting; as a result...