agriculture technology Articles
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Role of knowledge in the adoption of new agricultural technologies: an approach and an application
Empirical studies on agricultural technology adoption generally divide a population into adopters and nonadopters, and analyse the reasons for adoption or nonadoption at a point in time. In reality, technology adoption is not a one-off static decision, rather it involves a dynamic process in which information gathering, learning and experience play pivotal roles, particularly in the early stage ...
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Technological culture and its value orientation: case study: modernisation in the Japanese agricultural sector
This paper analyses technology in modern Japan using three models of technological culture where the author claims "technological culture" as complex structures of certain technological principles in connection with a set of value orientations such as world view, attitudes towards living things, productivity and labour. The author elaborates three models of the thus defined "technological ...
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Exclusive Interview: Farmcare on the Future of Precision Ag
Ahead of the next World Agri-Tech Investment Summit in November, we caught up with Andrew Lazenby, Director of Operations at Farmcare Trading to find out how the UK’s leading rural growing business views the future of precision technology on the farm. In an interview with World Agri-Tech, Andrew highlights what the government and industry can do to stimulate the adoption of advanced ...
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China-Israel Agriculture and Technology Town - Case Study
Another BioFishency installation! Now under construction as part of the China-Israel Agriculture and Technology Town, Shijiazhuang, China, the BioFishency systems will be used to hatch and grow ornamental koi and Chinese perch ...
By BioFishency
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Environmental sustainability, sustainable livelihood and poverty reduction: the case for tribal agricultural technology
Environmental degradation is very closely associated with economic growth, which leads to the popular concept of sustainable development. The idea of sustainable development also has a component of damage to the environment, though it is minimum. However, there is one thing that has the potential of promoting development along with poverty reduction with the true spirit of the idea of ...
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The orbit of commodified technoscience: innovations in agricultural technology in India
The paper reviews the strategies by the Government of India over time to improve the state of agriculture. The institutional framework within which these strategies were conceived of and implemented though have contributed to improvement in agricultural productivity have led to larger consequences. Productivity based on green revolution strategy has reached a plateau and substantial yield gaps ...
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Precision Indoor Farming - Case Study
With an increasing demand for food, modern agriculture technologies like greenhouse farming have become the norm. Greenhouse farming needs specific temperatures and climatic conditions to ensure good growth of the crops. A variety of crops can be grown using such technology. Prkruti can help by keeping a record of all atmospheric temperatures and other factors to keep a check on the favourable ...
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Controversy about agricultural technology lessons from the green revolution
The development and introduction of transgenically modified organisms to enhance crop and animal production has generated considerable controversy about potential food safety and environmental impacts. The introduction, in tropical Latin America and Asia, of high yielding varieties of wheat, maize and rice beginning in the late 1960s was also controversial. Critics argued that the new technology ...
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Technology transfer for agro-industries in developing nations: a Caribbean perspective
Agriculture has long served as the 'handmaiden' to the industrial sector in many developing countries including those in the Caribbean region. Technological change, competition and globalisation are driving a restructuring of agro-business Research and Development (R&D) processes and strategies. This paper discusses the potential benefits of technology transfer to agriculture and the ...
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What it`s like to fly drones for Pollen Systems
Pollen Systems is on the cutting edge of agricultural technology, and this summer marks my third year as Pollen Systems’ primary drone pilot in Washington and Oregon. If you are one of our clients, then you may have seen me on site previously with a Phantom 4 Pro, but our latest tool is a DJI Inspire 2 with a MicaSense Altum sensor, which has the multispectral and RGB imaging that clients ...
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Technological capabilities in multinational agribusiness
With a sample of 18,611 utility patents, this paper studies the patent mix of 90 of the world's leading food and beverage multinationals (FBMs) from 1969-1994. It explores the statistical association within companies between patenting in food technology, in agriculture and in ten non-food technological fields. Food patenting is always positively associated with patenting in Biotech, Chemicals, ...
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How to close the ever widening gap of Africa's agriculture
While global food availability increased by 27% per person over the past four decades, it decreased by 12% in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper explores the role of technology use on agricultural development to understand the ever widening gap of SSA with other global regions. It looks into land (i.e., yield) and labour productivity, the relation between technology use and yield stability and, ...
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Factors affecting adoption of agricultural water-saving technologies in Heilongjiang Province, China
This study aimed to find key factors influencing the decisions of farmers regarding the adoption of water-saving practices including the rice-controlling irrigation technique, drip irrigation under plastic film, and sprinkling irrigation in Heilongjiang Province, China. It was found that reliability of the water source and government promotion had very significant and positive associations with ...
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Mapping organisational linkages in the agricultural innovation system of Azerbaijan
This study describes the evolving context and organisational linkages in the agricultural innovation system of Azerbaijan and suggests ways to promote effective organisational ties for the development, distribution and use of new or improved information and knowledge related to agriculture. Graph-theoretic principles and concepts are employed to assess the existing organisational linkages vital ...
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Knowledge-intensive technology in agricultural and rural contexts: relationships with sustainability
Knowledge-intensive technology can contribute a lot to the transformation of agriculture, also in terms of more eco-efficient and nonmaterial production. However, relatively little is known so far on the relationship of the development of ICTs and agriculture/rurality and the environment. This paper discusses key processes of information society that may contribute to the developments about to ...
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Nutrient acquisition and yield response of Barley exposed to salt stress under different levels of potassium nutrition
Abstract: A greenhouse experiment was carried out in 2002 at Jordan University of Science and Technology, Agricultural Experiment Station to examine the effect of potassium fertilization on the response of barley (Hordeum vullgare L.) to different soil salinity levels. Five levels of potassium (0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, and 0.8 g K per pot as KCl) and two salt levels (0.75 and 13 ds/m) were investigated ...
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Bloat reduction potential of an Alfalfa cultivar selected for low initial Ruminal disappearance
Foamy bloat causes large economic losses in beef and dairy grazing systems based on alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Dry matter (DM) disappearance at initial stages of rumen fermentation is associated with bloat. The National Institute for Agricultural Technology, Argentina, developed a cultivar of alfalfa (Carmina) with low initial ruminal DM disappearance (LIRD). To study the bloat reduction ...
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Innovation, agricultural growth and poverty reduction
There is increasing agreement that agricultural growth matters for poverty reduction and has a significance extending well beyond the agriculture sector. Examples of successful research and innovation support by DFID show the central role of science and research in technological innovation. Technology cannot be viewed in isolation from innovation in policies and institutions. These provide ...
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Towards collaborative agro-innovation in developing countries: the Caribbean perspective
Innovation has been recognised as a distinctive input to wealth creation through the stimulation of new ideas, processes and products. A nation's economic prosperity has been attributed to the concerted efforts in research and development, technology transfer and collaboration among firms, knowledge institutions and the government. This paper discusses the challenges and determinants of ...
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Managing agricultural biotechnology for sustainable development: the case of semi-arid India
Managing agricultural biotechnology for sustainable development demands more than research and intellectual property rights policies. Economic and regulatory institutions conducive to application of intrinsically sustainable technologies are also required. From an interdisciplinary development research perspective, it is argued that sustainability of Indian agriculture and food crop production ...
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