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Leveraging tobacco for a low-carbon biorefinery. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Plant Sci
Yin Q, Zhu Z, Chen Y, Yang M.
europepmc   +1 more source

United Airway Disease Among Crop Farmers

Journal of Agromedicine, 2016
Although there are observed relationships between agriculture and respiratory health problems, little attention has been given to relationship between lower and upper airway problems among farmers in the United States. The objective was to investigate the possible relationship between occupational risk factors and "united airway disease" among farmers ...
Muge, Akpinar-Elci   +4 more
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Crop profit optimization for farmers

2016 IEEE Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), 2016
A tool was created to perform a systems analysis in order to optimize a farmer's profit based on the decisions that are faced during the planting season. The tool was created in Python so that it can be used on most computers without added cost to the user.
Jonathan Romero, Kody Smith
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Farmers’ Attitudes to GM Crops

2002
Farmers will generally support and patronize technologies, including those that utilise genetic modification, to the extent that these reduce their costs of production, improve yields, enhance the quality and acceptability of their products, and increase their incomes and overall economic welfare.
Montemayor, Raul Q., Montemayor, Raul Q.
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Exploring farmers’ decision for crop insurance

Economic Science for Rural Development, 2022
The existence of adverse weather conditions increases the production risks of farms through crop yields in the crop sector. One of the measures to mitigate the risks from the weather in agriculture is to insure crops. In the Estonian insurance market, crop insurance is available to farmers.
Caroline Tuum   +2 more
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Distributed mobile application for crop farmers

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems, 2013
In a recent research collaboration with the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, we investigate the best ways that mobile devices can aid in applying pesticides. Farmers require different pesticides for different crops and at every stage in the development cycle of the crops.
Richard K. Lomotey   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Factors Influencing Farmers' Crop Insurance Decisions

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2004
Farmers' decisions to purchase crop insurance and their choices among alternative products are analyzed using a two‐stage estimation procedure. The influences of risk perceptions, competing risk management options, as well structural and demographic differences are evaluated.
Bruce J. Sherrick   +3 more
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Crop biotechnology and the African farmer

Food Policy, 2006
Abstract Recent reports, workshops and meetings on GM (Genetically Modified) crops tend to characterize GM food production as a solution to Africa’s food crisis. However, GM crops are currently grown commercially in only one country in Africa – South Africa.
Carl K. Eicher   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Climate change impacts on crop yields

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2023
Ehsan Eyshi Rezaei   +2 more
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