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Root vegetables harvest and farm development

Root vegetables season The autumn start is the time when vegetable producers have a lot of work. A collection of vegetables begins. Tension and nerves are often associated with it. All because the priority for farmers is to collect crops for which they worked hard all year round. It is important to make a good choice and select the machines suitable to your needs and four farm ...

Jun. 13, 2019

By Weremczuk Agromachines

Hot Source: GMO Labelling Requirments, Food Illness Outbreaks, New Pesticides Lab in Mombasa & More

In this issue of Hot Source, food supply, security and sustainability comes to the fore with the publication of new principles for Responsible Investment Agriculture and Food Systems, by the Committee on World Food Safety (CFS) under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO). Visit us for more details: ...

Jan. 11, 2015

By SGS

Amisy Threshing Machine

Amisy Farming Machiney supplies all kinds of farming machines from threshing machines to tillage machines. About Amisy Machinery-Farming Machines Manufacturer Amisy Machinery was established in 2000, with years of experience in farming machines research and design. It became a respected manufacturer and main exporter in the agricultural field. ...

Aug. 15, 2016

By Amisy Farming Machinery

LA NIVELLE, France: Grand Systeme–Major agricultural pollution (unstable turbidity, pesticides and micro-organisms) and variation in water demand during the summer period.

La Nivelle Ultrafiltration plant in the Basque country meets several constraints.The first is to provide a constant supply to the towns of Saint Jean de Luz, Ciboure and Urrugne, with the population varying from 20,000 to 100,000 inhabitants for a few months of the year.The second constraint is related to the agricultural and livestock farming activities. The quality of the raw water is not ...

Feb. 14, 2008

By Degremont Technologies - a subsidiary of Suez Environnement

Mexican agricultural exports: effect on trade flows and prices in the USA under NAFTA

The objectives of this study are to determine the factors that affect trade flows of selected vegetables from Mexico to the USA and to evaluate the impacts of Mexican agricultural exports on the US domestic price of these commodities. Major factors affecting trade flows of these commodities from Mexico to the USA include the exchange rate, differences in market size, domestic supply and ...

Dec. 27, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

New market channels for a non-food agricultural product. The development of an alternative supply chain for the bergamot citrus in Calabria, Italy

The bergamot, a typical fruit of the Italian region of Calabria, contains an essence that is a basic component for the perfume industry. In the last decades bergamot sector declined dramatically, because of the introduction of an artificial substitute of the essence and for the producers' fragmentation. After describing the evolution of the industry and of the supply-chain structure, the paper ...

Aug. 26, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

Are agricultural chemicals affecting our water?

With the rate at which modern towns and cities expand it’s inevitable that the volume of separation between agricultural facilities and highly populated areas is shrinking. The loss of these areas can have a lasting impact, particularly when it comes to our water supplies. From an ...

Sep. 6, 2016

By Aquaread Limited

Cooperation of agriculture and industry in France

Location Rohan/France Capacity 526 kWel In operation since 09/2010 Input materials Pig liquid manure, flotate fat, maize silage Features Flotate fats and oils from the food industry supply approximately 75% of the energy produced. The electricity generated in the biogas plant in Rohan ...

May 17, 2012

By EnviTec Biogas AG

Human excreta: a resource or a taboo? Assessing the socio-cultural barriers, acceptability, and reuse of human excreta as a resource in Kakul Village District Abbottabad, Northwestern Pakistan

Sustainable reuse of human excreta in socially and religiously conservative societies is extremely difficult. People's perceptions and acceptability regarding the reuse of human excreta is mainly linked to their culture. In addition, certain societies regard the cultural and social barriers more than the religious barriers. The aim of this study is to understand the perceptions of people about ...

Nov. 15, 2017

By IWA Publishing

Long-term variations in the net inflow record for Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi is the third largest lake in Africa and plays an important role in water supply, hydropower generation, agriculture and fisheries in the region. Lake level observations started in the 1890s and anecdotal evidence of variations dates back to the early 1800s. A chronology of lake level and outflow variations is presented together with updated estimates for the net inflow to the lake. ...

Jul. 3, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Pasteurisation of input materials in Pfaffendorf, Germany

Location Pfaffendorf/Germany Capacity 2 x 500 kWel In operation since 08/2004 and 09/2007 Input materials Flotate fat, cattle liquid manure, DDGS, waste from biodiesel production Features The farming enterprise now utilises all fermentation residues as valuable fertiliser. The input ...

May 17, 2012

By EnviTec Biogas AG

Paths to developing multifunctional agriculture: insights for rural development policies

The paper proposes to contribute to the growing literature on the practise and significance of multifunctional agriculture, drawing on an empirical study of 50 farms located in Central Italy and Sicily. The paper intends, in particular, to identify and analyse the ways that multifunctionality can be translated into rural development models, and to distinguish the territorial and farm features ...

Nov. 15, 2012

By Inderscience Publishers

Biotechnology and the changing structure of agri-food supply chains

Rapid technological change in agricultural biotechnology, the characteristics of the technology and firms' strategic responses have altered the structure of the agricultural input supply sector and are changing vertical relationships between firms downstream in the agri-food chain. A number of economic theories shed light on what is happening, why it is happening and how the agri-food chain may ...

May 10, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Plant biotechnology and agricultural supply industry restructuring

The strategic horizon of the agricultural supply industry (pesticides and seeds) is darkened by grave uncertainties. These are the result of the growing multiform resistance of society to the present or potential risks of genetically modified organisms to health and the environment. They are also the consequences of counter-strategies implemented by economic players who are close to final ...

Feb. 2, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Assessing the prediction capacity of an agricultural supply positive mathematical programming model

In this paper, the calibration and prediction capacity of a supply response positive mathematical programming model (PMP) for the Alentejo region are evaluated. The model is calibrated with prices and agricultural subsidies of the base year (2000), using the specification rules of the cost function standard, Paris standard, average cost and exogenous elasticities. Then, the model is utilised for ...

Apr. 24, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Ethiopia’s seed banks and the search for food security

The community seed bank in Chefe Donsa, a village two hours’ drive east of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, collects and preserves the seeds of local crops to ensure farmers have a steady supply of seeds to sow each year. The Chefe Donsa seed bank is just one of 13 established in different climatic areas of the country. The nation’s central seed bank, which the Ethiopian Institute ...

Oct. 15, 2014

By SciDev.Net

Rural transformation in Turkey 19802004: case studies from three regions

This paper focuses on the economic dimension of rural transformation (or structural transformation) in Turkey. It investigates the development of labour demand and supply in rural areas over the past two decades. For that purpose, three longitudinal case studies were conducted in three different regions of Turkey. This paper concludes that the lack of substantial labour transfer from agricultural ...

May 2, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

Differences in global risk perceptions of biotechnology and the political economy of the media

The application of biotechnology to agriculture is highly controversial between consumers and lawmakers across the globe, especially in the case of Genetically Modified Foods (GMFs). Consumer attitudes toward GMFs are largely negative in the developed nations. However, studies conducted in Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) find that consumer attitudes toward GMFs are positive in some cases. Using ...

Feb. 21, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

From (cyber)space to ground: new technologies for smart farming

Increased water demand and climate change impacts have recently enhanced the need to improve water resources management, even in those areas which traditionally have an abundant supply of water, such as the Po Valley in northern Italy. The highest consumption of water is devoted to irrigation for agricultural production, and so it is in this area that efforts have to be focused to study ...

Dec. 4, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Looking for alternatives: the construction of the organic beef chain in Mugello, Tuscany

There is a growing consensus that organic farming is undergoing critical changes as it is integrated into food chains. A situation of 'deadly embrace' between organic and retail chains can be observed and explained by the appropriation of both the alternative values and the economic benefits associated with the organic food production by the 'dominant' actors within the conventional agro-food ...

Feb. 3, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

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