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Is Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption Persistently Overestimated?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Precision agriculture is sometimes assumed to diffuse steadily over time, and industry planning frequently extrapolates early adoption trends forward. This study evaluates the accuracy of such expectations by comparing agricultural input dealers' forecasts of future service offerings with the actual levels of offerings that dealerships ...
Trey Malone   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

IMPACT OF ORGANIC FERTILIZER ON PRODUCTIVITY OF RICE FARMING IN NGAWI REGENCY OF EAST JAVA, INDONESIA

open access: yesRussian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2020
This study aimed to analyze the decisions of farmers in the use of organic fertilizer and analyze the impact of the use of organic fertilizers on productivity and farm income. This study was conducted in Ngawi regency of East Java Province. A total of 88
Saeri M., Rahman M.S.
doaj   +1 more source

Smart Flexible Tactile Sensors: Recent Progress in Device Designs, Intelligent Algorithms, and Multidisciplinary Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Flexible tactile sensors have considerable potential for broad application in healthcare monitoring, human–machine interfaces, and bioinspired robotics. This review explores recent progress in device design, performance optimization, and intelligent applications. It highlights how AI algorithms enhance environmental adaptability and perception accuracy
Siyuan Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmer Field Schools for Improving Farming Practices and Farmer Outcomes: A Systematic Review

open access: yesCampbell Systematic Reviews, 2014
This Campbell systematic review examines the effectiveness of farmer field schools in improving intermediate outcomes (such as knowledge and pesticide use) and final outcomes (such as agricultural yields, incomes and empowerment) in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs), as well as implementation factors associated with programme success and failure.
Hugh Waddington   +6 more
openaire   +2 more sources

9 steps to scale climate-smart agriculture: Lessons and experiences from the climate-smart villages in My Loi, Vietnam and Guinayangan, Philippines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Climate-Smart Village approach is a CCAFS agricultural research for development (AR4D) strategy for stimulating the scaling of climate-smart agriculture. CSVs are established in Southeast Asia through the CCAFS program to serve as sites for “testing,
Gonsalves, Julian   +3 more
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An Attention‐Assisted Machine Learning System for Deep Microorganism Image Classification

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
An attention‐assisted DenseNet201 framework was developed for the classification of eight microorganism classes from microscopic images. The proposed model improved classification performance and achieved an accuracy of 87.38%. Advances in microbiology and environmental health fundamentally depend on precise and timely microorganism identification ...
Yujie Li   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gender and innovation processes in wheat-based systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This WHEAT report is based on 43 village case studies from eight countries set in diverse wheat-based farming regions of the Global ...
Badstue, Lone B.   +3 more
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Material‐Based Intelligence: Autonomous Adaptation and Embodied Computation in Physical Substrates

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This perspective formulates a unifying framework for Material‐Based Intelligence (MBI), defining the physical requirements for materials to achieve embodied action, active memory and embodied information processing through intrinsic nonequilibrium dynamics. The design of intelligent materials often draws parallels with the complex adaptive behaviors of
Vladimir A. Baulin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utilization pattern of extension tools and methods by Agricultural Extension Agents

open access: yesJournal of Extension Education, 2018
A study was conducted in Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu state to understand the utilization pattern of extension tools and methods by the agricultural extension agents.
M Surudhi, M Asokhan, R Arunachalam
doaj   +1 more source

Case studies of lead firm governance systems in the context commercialization of smallholder agriculture in Uganda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
[INTRODUCTION] The study is set in the context of: (a) overall weak farmer-buyer relations in most parts of Uganda’s agro-sector which affect the development prospects of small holder farmers (SHFs), and (b) a growing interest by the private and ...
Nyabuntu, Paschal   +2 more
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