the problem of food security during the last few decades has acquired a global character. population growth, reduction of farmland suitable for agriculture and ecological factors has led to a sharp increase in food demand. in such conditions, the role of countries which are able to increase the export of agricultural production in short-term periods is rising. ukraine has great opportunities fo...

Access to agricultural markets and marketing information are essential factors in promoting competitive markets and improving agricultural sector development. The agricultural sector employs majorities in developing countries and it contributes greatly to the development of these countries. Unluckily, majorities of the farmers are smallholders living in isolated rural areas and thus lack approp...

Since the 1990s, the introduction of the household contract responsibility system in China's rural areas caused by China's agricultural production and small-business contradiction between socialized market has become increasingly prominent. Establishing a responsive to both our agricultural production mode of operation at this stage to have camp features can adapt to the global market informati...

This article describes challenges faced by agricultural production and marketing in the era of big data, and then builds the agricultural market information matching platform based on HADOOP & NUTCH combining cloud computing technology, finally details its layers and key technologies, including the use of open source search engine to capture the whole network market information to build agricul...

At present, in China, small farmers decentralized production doesn’t keep pace with the agricultural products market development requirements. This paper provides a new way by using the cloud computing technology to design and implement the agricultural production and marketing information matching recommendation system in the cloud computing environment. The platform collects agricultural mark...

Given its vast land resources and favorable water supply, the Democratic Republic of Congo‟s (DRC) natural agricultural potential is immense. However, the economic potential of the sector is handicapped by one of the most dilapidated transport systems in the developing world (World Bank, 2006). Road investments are therefore a high priority in the government‟s investment plans, and those of its...

This report provides a background analysis of the market for nisin and other commercially available antimicrobial food additives. The report concludes that there is a potential role for a new U.S.-based entity to compete with a nisin product that is cost-competitive or provides quality guarantees to satisfy U.S. buyers who have tight specifications for ingredient sourcing and food safety and qu...