cultivator Articles
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Society and wilderness
In a recent book, Mark Sagoff argues that humans are an essential part of nature. According to Sagoff, an area is 'natural' (part of nature) only if humans have cultivated the area through activities such as farming, hunting, trapping, and fishing. Humans must "come to terms with nature", he writes. Wilderness is apparently an exception to this view, however. By law, many human activities are ...
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Twinrotor in AkkerbouwActueel magazin
This year, the Straver agricultural company in Almkerk has started using the Struik VariX Twinrotor for carrot cultivation. Read the whole article on the AkkerbouwActueel website ...
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Abamectin in Tea and Tea Liquor Under Northeastern Indian Climatic Conditions
Tea (Camellia sinensis) is the second most consumed beverage after water and about one and a half billion cups of tea is consumed daily all over the world. India is the highest producer of tea in the world. Tea is being cultivated mainly in noreast and south India and is attacked by a variety of pests, wich multiply rapidly, and cultivators apply a combination of several types of pesticides over ...
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Molecular identification of Saccharum spp. X Erianthus fulvus hybrids using sequence-characterized amplified region markers
Identification of hybrids derived from crosses between cultivated sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) and its wild relatives, including Erianthus fulvus Nees ex Hack., is important for the development of new sugarcane cultivars. The aim of the present study was to identify true hybrids in 73 F1 progeny obtained from five crosses with cultivated sugarcane as female parents and E. fulvus as male parents. ...
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Factors determining stakeholders' perception of kenaf cultivation in Kelantan
The Malaysian government has selected kenaf as a new commodity and natural fibre to be given support and priority, but the expected progress in kenaf cultivation was not met. The objectives of this study are (a) to identify which stakeholders within the Kenaf development ecosystem to be given attention to enact change and (b) to determine the critical factors influencing this stakeholder's ...
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The meaning and dialectics of education, teaching, refinement, urbanisation and civilisation: a Khaldounic point of view
This paper had attempted to highlight the meaning and dialectics of some of Ibn Khaldoun's very crux concepts: education teaching refinement, urbanisation and civilisation. It found that education is a natural process. It is somewhat similar to a contemporary concept of socialisation and its purpose as the tool of socialisation can be traced in the meaning of the word tarbiyah which means to ...
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Phyco-Bubble , UK - Case Study
A 12 L Phyco-Bubble equipped with dimmable LEDs, recently installed at Imperial College London.The reactor system was designed for the cultivation of thermophilic cyanobacteria and can operate at ...
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Problems and prospects in the conservation and development of the Himalayan medicinal plants sector
With the advent of a market-orientated economy, the medicinal plants wealth of the Himalaya has become a high price commodity. As a result, many wild populations of valued medicinal plants are declining due to over-harvesting. In order to prevent the further loss of medicinal plants in the wild and, at the same time, to meet the demands of pharmaceutical companies and herbal healers, attempts are ...
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Entrepreneurial activity of contemporary Ainu: an explanatory study
This paper reports the entrepreneurship of the indigenous Ainu people in Japan. Our explanatory study shows that the Ainu entrepreneurs, who are the traditional hunting people, engage still mainly in the fishery industry. Operating size of the fishing boat fishery and the fishery of cultivation has an increasing trend. Household's average income is higher for the fishing village residents than ...
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Cultivation of melons with tape
Melon is a sweet and juicy fruit that has a warm character, it is often cultivated in hot and dry climates and usually in sandy soils. In general, melons grow better in sandy and light soils than in heavy and clay soils. In this article, we are going to talk to you about the Cultivation of melons with tape with ribbons and give you information about the cultivation of this sweet fruit. flat ...
By Mehravand
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Seaweed future cultivation in Chile: perspectives and challenges
Production of seaweeds in Chile has fluctuated between 120,000 and 316,000 wet metric tons per year during the last ten years. The most important Phaeophyta are exploited for alginate production and as abalone feed. Among the Rhodophyta, Chilean production comes mainly from wild stocks, as at present cultivation on a commercial scale is restricted to Gracilaria. Large scale production of this ...
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Utilization of inland saline water for
Spirulina cultivationAn attempt was made to assess the suitability of the inland saline water of Rohtak (Haryana) for mass cultivation of Spirulina platensis, a salt loving cyanobacterium. Cultivation of S. platensis was performed in indoor and outdoor culture units. The investigation revealed that the yield of biomass in de-calcified inland saline water was comparable to the yield obtained in synthetic ...
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Dava B & C - Case Study
Greenhouse Project Name:DAVA B&C. Project Address:AL-Kharj, KSA. Project Area:26ha. Construction Time:2021. Cultivation:Tomatoes. Glass Type:Haze 70 diffuse glass. ...
By Yuhua
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Competitive interactions between cultivated and red rice as a function of recent and projected increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide
Because wild lines of the same species often represent a weedy constraint to cultivated crops in the field, any differential response to atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, [CO2], may alter weed–crop competition and seed yield. We evaluated the growth and reproduction of cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.; Clearfield, CL161) and red or weedy rice (Stuttgart, StgS) in monoculture, and at two ...
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Recycling of macronutrients from sea to land using mussel cultivation
The presence of diarrheic shellfish toxins (DST) has been the main obstacle to mussel cultivation in Sweden. Monitoring of DST concentrations in mussels by HPLC for 12 years has shown great geographical and seasonal differences. Furthermore, individual mussels on the same farming strip may differ by a factor as great as 16. DST levels are usually low in summer, rise in September, remain high in ...
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Spirulina Production with the Phyco-Flow - Case Study
We recently installed two Phyco-Flow systems for the production of food grade Spirulina in Geneva Switzerland. Each system comes with complete process control and automation as well as an optimised LED array for indoor cultivation. We wish our client all the best as they enter the nutraceutical market with a high end product ...
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Factors influencing immigrants’ satisfaction in Danjiangkou Reservoir based on logistic regression model
Findings from a prospective study of project-induced migration along the middle route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China are reported. The study seeks to identify the key factors influencing differences in immigrants’ satisfaction, from their own characteristics, family income, production conditions, living conditions, social conditions, resource conditions, and ...
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Microalgae Cultivation
We are currently cultivation microalgae species such as Haematococcus Pluvialis and Auxenochlorella protothecoides. Please read more about these microalgaes in our product page for the BioAlgae-unit. Our goal is to produce microalgaes for new valuable food products, such as fish- and animal feed ingredients or as “SuperFoods”. The microalgaes can also utilize the nutrients from ...
By Redono Oy
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Pharmalogyx Seeks $21M to Launch 740 Acre Industrialized CBD Hemp Farm
Pharmalogyx Managing Director Colte Koen tells Proactive Investors the company is looking to raise $21 million in capital to launch full-scale production in both cultivation and processing at its Nevada-based CBD Hemp farm. Koen says the company’s differentiator is their minimization of risk variables and ability to maximize profits through industrialization and ...
By Pharmalogyx
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Performance evaluation in the new economy: bringing the measurement and evaluation of intellectual capital into the management planning and control system
The measurement and evaluation of intellectual capital is an exercise in trying to determine the value of ideas, skills and other products of the human intellect. Rather than trying to place a value on human beings, we are trying to determine the value-added by the services they are performing now, have performed in the past and their potential for the future. The history of intellectual capital ...
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