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Sustainable Farming Practices, Awareness, and Behavior in Small Farms in Brazil [PDF]

, 2021
This paper investigates the relationship between the use of digital and non-digital sources of information on sustainable farming practices, institutional pressure and adoption of such practices by farmers in Brazilian semi-arid lands.
Gholami, Roya, Nunes, Breno, Añón Higón, Dolores   +2 more
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Optimizing Sensor-Based Irrigation Management in a Soilless Vertical Farm for Growing Microgreens

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
With water resources constantly becoming scarcer, and 70% of freshwater used for the agriculture sector, there is a growing need for innovative methods to increase water use efficiency (WUE) of food production systems and provide nutrient-dense food to ...
Mahya Tavan, Benjamin Wee, Graham Brodie, Sigfredo Fuentes, Alexis Pang, Dorin Gupta   +5 more
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The ‘digital dividend’ as a case study in spectrum re-farming

, 2013
The re-farming of spectrum (i.e. its reassignment to services with a higher value), triggered by free-to-air television digitisation and the switch-off of analogue TV, represents a significant microeconomic reform.
Giles Tanner (19120789)
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Does Credit Influence Fertilizer Intensification in Rice Farming? Empirical Evidence from Côte D’Ivoire

, 2020
In Côte d’Ivoire, the use of fertilizers in rice farming still remains low. Credit constraints have been frequently reported as the main reason hampering rice farmers from reversing this situation.
Xueping Xiong, Lacina Traoré, Calum G. Turvey, Ruiting Sun, Zié Ballo, N’Banan Ouattara, Abdelrahman Ali   +6 more
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How Young Consumers Perceive Vertical Farming in the Nordics. Is the Market Ready for the Coming Boom?

, 2021
Producing food via vertical farming (VF) is an efficient method since it requires less space with increased yield per unit area. Such a system can assist in solving major food-shortage problems since it presents a higher crop yield per unit area compared
Antonios Petridis, Maozhi Ren, George Xydis, Linthujan Perambalam, Ying Wang, Aspasia Efthimiadou, Dafni D. Avgoustaki, Yongming Liu   +7 more
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Intercropping in Rice Farming under the System of Rice Intensification—An Agroecological Strategy for Weed Control, Better Yield, Increased Returns, and Social–Ecological Sustainability

, 2021
Rice is the staple food for more than half of the world’s population. In South Asia, rice farming systems provide food to the majority of the population, and agriculture is a primary source of livelihood.
Sumbal Tasawwar, Shah, Tavseef Mairaj, Ralf Otterpohl, Otterpohl, Ralf, M. Anwar Bhat, Tavseef Mairaj Shah, Tasawwar, Sumbal, Bhat, M. Anwar   +7 more
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Sensing Architecture for Terrestrial Crop Monitoring: Harvesting Data as an Asset

Sensors, 2021
Very often, the root of problems found to produce food sustainably, as well as the origin of many environmental issues, derive from making decisions with unreliable or inexistent data.
Francisco Rovira-Más, Verónica Saiz-Rubio, Andrés Cuenca-Cuenca   +2 more
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Water Footprint Assessment of Green and Traditional Cultivation of Crops in the Huang-Huai-Hai Farming Region

, 2022
With the increasing consumer awareness and knowledge about safe and healthy food, it is imperative to develop ‘green’ crops with reduced fertilizer application for quality food production, environmental protection and sustainable agricultural
Xiaolin Yang, Taisheng Du, Jinran Xiong, Fangting Liang, Steven Pacenka, Tammo S. Steenhuis, Kadambot H. M. Siddique   +6 more
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Automatic chick cough detection system based on improved audio spectrogram convolutional transformer neural network

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Respiratory diseases are common on poultry farms during spring and autumn. Due to the high density of the farm environment, an epidemic can spread very quickly and cause large-scale biological infections.
Bowen Cai, Bowen Cai, Bo Zhou, Bo Zhou, Xiangshuai Kong, Mengsi Zhai, Mengsi Zhai   +6 more
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Digital opportunities of the agrarian economy of Ukraine during the war period

Економіка, управління та адміністрування, 2022
The article substantiates the catastrophic consequences of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, which led to the industrial crisis in the world. The need to restore the agricultural sector of the economy as soon as possible, in particular the lost ...
A.V. , V.О. , T.Y. , V.V.
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