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Application Case Studies - Agriculture Plant Nursery Challenge A plant nursery company had water quality issues from the well water source that there were using for irrigation purposes in their plant growing operations. These water quality issues including total dissolved salts (TDS) around 2500 mg/l, as well as turbidity, mineral hardness and microbiological contaminants. The plants were slow ...

Feb. 17, 2015

By Genesis Water Technologies, Inc.

Book Review: Agriculture and Rural Development Planning. A Process in Transition

Agriculture and Rural Development Planning. A Process in Transition, by H. David Akroyd. Ashgate, 2003. 224pp. ISBN 0-7546-3693-3Keywords: book ...

Jul. 31, 2006

By Inderscience Publishers

The Doha work programme on agriculture: taking non-trade concerns into account in the market access pillar

The Doha negotiating mandate specifies that non-trade concerns (NTC), such as food security, rural development and environmental protection, shall be taken into account in the WTO agriculture negotiations. The emphasis of the negotiation mandate on NTC is crucial to the overall balance of the mandate and was decisive for many Members when they embarked on the multilateral reform process in ...

Jul. 25, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

Policy formation in the process of implementing agricultural reform in Turkey

In 2001, Turkey adopted the Agricultural Reform Implementation Project (ARIP). This reform changed the practical instruments of policy intervention without questioning the underlying policy paradigm. A major driving force behind ARIP was the World Bank, which provided policy advice and the necessary financial support. The primary goal was to make Turkish agriculture more compatible with the WTO ...

May 3, 2007

By Inderscience Publishers

Dryholme Ad Facility - Case Study

Biogass Renewables General Manager Joseph Oliver in a previous role working with Farmgen, Undertook the Develop, Design, Finance, Build, Commission and Operate of Dryholme AD facility, processing agricultural waste streams for power production in Cumbria ...

Jan. 1, 2011

By Biogass Renewables Pty Ltd

Water institutional reforms in Morocco

ABSTRACT Using a teleological perspective and an analytical categorization of the history of water institutions in Morocco, this paper aims to review and evaluate the institutional reforms in the country in the light of the results and hypotheses presented in some recent literature on the subject. The review suggests that considering their overall thrust and direction, the institutional reforms ...

Feb. 1, 2005

By IWA Publishing

Rural women and agrotourism in the context of sustainable rural development: A case study from Turkey

As in many developing countries also in Turkey, agriculture is on the center of rural development and rural women are on the center of agriculture. Although they are main part as a major labor force at every stage of agricultural activity and undertake responsibilities such as domestic task and childcare, women do not profit from social and economic benefits proportionate to the responsibilities ...

Jan. 1, 2005

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Issues Brought Up During BC-CM Producers Group Meeting Featured By Inside EPA Article

On January 13, 2017, slides from the B&C® Consortia Management’s (BC-CM) NMP Producers Group Meeting with the Office of Management and Budget were discussed in the Inside EPA article “Chemical Makers Cite TSCA Listing In Call For EPA To Drop NMP Proposal.” But representatives from Bergeson & Campbell on behalf of NMP producers in a Dec. 5 meeting with EPA and OMB ...

Jan. 13, 2017

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

How to Find a Reliable Metal Fabricator in MN

Metal fabrication is an essential part of production across several MN industries, including: agriculture, food processing, chemical production, and manufacturing. Astro Engineering & Manufacturing aims to provide lean, efficient, and reliable metal fabrication services across many different industries throughout the state. Here are just a few of the things we can provide for your company: ...

Mar. 10, 2017

By Astro Engineering & Manufacturing Inc.

Values of organic producers converting at different times: results of a focus group study in five European countries

This paper presents the results of a focus group study of the values of organic producers entering the sector at different times in Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, the UK and Switzerland. As well as expressing values widely associated with organic farming, such as food quality, health and environmental protection, they also mentioned professional challenge, fairness in the food chain, and ...

Feb. 4, 2008

By Inderscience Publishers

European food and agricultural strategy for 21st century

Production ecological analyses reveal great differences in food production potential and food requirement between global regions, which implies the need for redistribution of food between surplus and deficit regions. The surplus production potential, current production and trade volumes of Europe along with the desires of its society for non-food functions from its land, favours a dual ...

May 23, 2011

By Inderscience Publishers

Deconstructing the orange: the evolution of an agricultural milieu in Southern Greece

Knowledge relating to the coevolution of communities and the technological, economic and natural systems that sustain them comes from a variety of sources. However, interdisciplinary, or more specifically integrated, analyses that formally consider issue-driven and policy-relevant output are now required. This paper will draw upon a case study of crop change, in particular the rapid introduction ...

May 11, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Temporal variations of reference evapotranspiration in Heihe River basin of China

Temporal variations in reference evapotranspiration (ETo) have profound implications for hydrological processes as well as for agricultural crop performance. The main aim of this study was to analyze the annual, seasonal trends in ETo in the Heihe River basin. The likely causative meteorological variables for such temporal changes in ETo were also identified. Results showed that, on a seasonal ...

Oct. 8, 2013

By IWA Publishing

China’s township enterprises

China’s township enterprises, promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, have developed on the basis of the handicrafts industry and the processing of agricultural products and by-products. They have flourished since 1978, becoming the mainstays of the rural economy. In 1999, 2,500 billion yuan in industrial output value was produced by the township enterprises, and the value of exported ...

Nov. 29, 2019

By BIOSANI

Bi-On, a product suitable for use in organic agriculture

Bi-On, a product suitable for use in organic farming Ecological, organic or biological agriculture is a cultivation system based on the optimum use of natural resources without using synthetic chemicals or genetically modified organisms (GMOs), thus being able to produce organic foods, as well as preserving the fertility of the soil and respecting the environment. All this in a sustainable, ...

Sep. 12, 2016

By Bioconservacion SA

Nano-to-macro scale engineering applications of nuclear technology: an overview

Nuclear science and technology offers the capability for radical industrial innovations from the nano-to-macro scales and is a field that already impacts over $600 billion in annual worldwide activity. The areas impacted are as diverse as medicine, industrial process control, energy, explosives, materials processing, agriculture, food preservation, sterilisation and non-destructive interrogation ...

Aug. 14, 2009

By Inderscience Publishers

Impacts of different water tariff reforms on rural livelihood and water and public resource in India: the case of Haryana producers

Since 1991, India has been undertaking a process of liberalisation of the agricultural sector. This process threatens to affect the irrigation patterns by introducing a system of payment for the electricity used for pumping, but it may prevent the wastage of the water resource. In this paper, a mathematical model is used to simulate farmers' reactions to different water policy scenarios in ...

Jun. 1, 2005

By Inderscience Publishers

Farmland Abandonment in the EU: an Assessment of Trends and Prospects

Over recent decades substantial areas of the EU have been affected by agricultural abandonment (ie. the complete withdrawal of agricultural management such that natural succession processes are able to progress). This is largely a result of declines in the viability of extensive (low input) and small-scale agriculture systems. Therefore such abandonment threatens a range of semi-natural habitats ...

Jan. 25, 2011

By Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)

Fertilizer production line helps move towards green agriculture

Green, ecological and organic agriculture has become the trend of agricultural development. After the process of planting crops with chemical fertilizer, people also know that only ecological agriculture will not have pesticide residues and chemical fertilizer residues, and remove substances that are harmful to human body. People's pursuit of life also laid the foundation for ecological ...

Dec. 11, 2020

By Zhengzhou Tianci Heavy Industry Machinery Ltd

BioLargo (BLGO) Solving Global Issues with Iodine

I meet 50 companies per year and have been interviewing hundreds of CEO’s for more than a decade. Their interests vary from vineyards to finance to technology and almost anything you can name, but the one thing they all have in common is that they articulate their company’s story better than anyone else. I distinctly remember meeting Dennis Calvert, the CEO of BioLargo, Inc. (BLGO) ...

Oct. 30, 2015

By Biolargo, Inc.

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