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Eco‐Efficient Processing and Refining Routes for Secondary Raw Materials from Silicon Ingot and Wafer Manufacturing

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
The ICARUS project developed pilot‐scale processes to recover and refine secondary raw materials from silicon photovoltaic (PV) ingot and wafer manufacturing waste. Silicon kerf, graphite, and silica residues are purified into high‐value inputs for the PV value chain and beyond.
Martin Bellmann, Berhane Darsene Dimd, Anne‐Karin Søiland, Arne Dahle, C. Landaas, Victorien Iwaszko, Rene Peche, Wolfram Palitzsch, Philippe Lenain, Iratxe de Meatza, Theodora Kyratsi, Liu Huiping, Emanuele Milani, Guy Chichignoud, Stefan Fischer, Almut Schwenke, Eirik Nordboe, Marco Pieterse, Roland Riva   +18 more
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The Impact of Innovative Irrigation System Use on Crop Yield Among Smallholder Farmers in Mbombela Local Municipality, South Africa

Agriculture
Smallholder farmers play a pivotal role in food production and rural development in South Africa. However, their productivity is often constrained by reliance on rainfed agriculture and the underutilisation of innovative technologies such as irrigation ...
Prayer Monamodi, Jorine Tafadzwa Ndoro, Mona Ben Matiwane   +2 more
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Demographic and Management Factors Affecting the Adoption and Perceived Yield Benefit of Winter Cover Crops in the Southeast [PDF]

The inclusion of cover crops in cropping systems brings direct and indirect costs and benefits. Farmers will adopt and utilize cover crops as long as the perceived benefit of using them is positive.
Bergtold, Jason S., Duffy, Patricia A., Hite, Diane, Raper, Randy L.   +3 more
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Triboelectric Tactile Transducers for Neuromorphic Sensing and Synaptic Emulation: Materials, Architectures, and Interfaces

Advanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
Triboelectric nanogenerators are vital for sustainable energy in future technologies such as wearables, implants, AI, ML, sensors and medical systems. This review highlights improved TENG neuromorphic devices with higher energy output, better stability, reduced power demands, scalable designs and lower costs.
Ruthran Rameshkumar, Arunkumar Chandrasekhar, Poongundran Selvaprabhu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Are Organic Farmers Really Better Off Than Conventional Farmers? [PDF]

We employed the propensity score matching and estimated the causal effect of being certified organic crop producers on farm household income and its various components in the United States.
Hiroki, Uematsu, Mishra, Ashok K.
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Generative Artificial Intelligence Shaping the Future of Agri‐Food Innovation

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Emerging use cases of generative artificial intelligence in agri‐food innovation. ABSTRACT The recent surge in generative artificial intelligence (AI), typified by models such as GPT, diffusion models, and large vision‐language architectures, has begun to influence the agri‐food sector.
Jun‐Li Xu, Dimitrios Argyropoulos, Tamíris da Costa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crop Farmers' Enterprise Information Needs In Reality Television Show Utilization In Oyo State, Nigeria

Jurnal Agrisep
The emerging scenario of robust Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) in Africa presupposes the need for Reality Television Shows (RTS) to support AEAS demand and delivery Systems.
Rasak Olajide, Alabi Opeyemi
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Computing Opportunity Costs of Growing Local Varieties for On-farm Conservation: Illustrations Using Sorghum Data from Ethiopia [PDF]

The recent shift of emphasis to on-farm conservation is driven by its diverse attractive features - participatory nature, dynamic nature, capacity to maintain not only crop diversity but the knowledge that evolves with it, the chance it offers and the ...
Estrella, Jaime, Mburu, John G., Wale, Edilegnaw   +2 more
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Modeling the Physical Characteristics of Ultrasound Pretreated Dialium guineense Whole Fruits Using Neural Network Pattern Recognition Model

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
The study of Physical characteristics of agricultural materials is necessary for the design of processes and machines for food production. Length, width, thickness, sphericity, unit mass, and aspect ratio were the physical characteristics of ultrasound pretreated Dialium guineense whole fruits subjected to Neural network modeling.
Mfrekemfon Akpan, Uduak George, Okon Esua   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Crop Choices by Bangladeshi Farmers: A Bivariate Probit Analysis [PDF]

Using a bivariate probit model, the study jointly determines the factors underlying the probability of Bangladeshi farmers adopting a diversified cropping system and/or modern rice technology.
Sanzidur Rahman
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