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Drought Stress Mediated Changes in Food Crops: Mechanisms and Remediation Strategies

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This work presents a multi‐scale framework for flavonoid‐mediated drought tolerance in staple food crops, integrating ROS redox regulation, antioxidant defense, rhizosphere microbial interactions, and sustainable agronomic practices. This interdisciplinary model provides core insights to develop climate‐resilient cropping systems and enhance global ...
Xiaoyi Duan, Litao Wang, Tuuli‐Marjaana Koski, Lizhe An, Thomas Efferth, Yujie Fu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang, Lena Kuhn, Hang Xiong, Zhanli Sun, Thomas Glauben   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Really Drives Agri‐Environment‐Climate Measures' Adoption? Mandatory Requirements, Behavioral Traits, and Structural Factors in the CAP Green Architecture

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To increase farmer adoption of green practices, the EU Common Agricultural Policy includes both mandatory (conditionality) and voluntary instruments (eco‐schemes–ECS– and more demanding, multi‐annual agri‐environment‐climate measures –AECM–). Building on the experiment of Barreiro‐Hurle et al.
L. Sanchez‐Mata, M. Rodríguez‐Entrena, M. Espinosa‐Goded, F. J. Dessart, J. Barreiro‐Hurlé   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Affecting Farmers EPerception of Greywater Irrigation in Urban Agriculture in the Colombo District, Sri Lanka

Journal of Water and Environment Technology, 2023
Greywater irrigation is becoming popular in urban farming, especially in developing countries. However, farmers Eperception of nontraditional irrigation methods is significant for their successful implementation.
Chethika Gunasiri Wadumestrige Dona, Geetha Mohan, Kensuke Fukushi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park, Seong D. Yun, Brandy E. Phipps, Tyler Mark, Craig Schluttenhofer   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmers' Perceptions on the Performance of Agricultural Extension in the Sustainable Urban Farming (P2L) Program in Yogyakarta City

Agricultural Socio-Economic Empowerment and Agribusiness Journal
Using urban yard land for agriculture plays a crucial role in meeting family food needs and increasing household income. Agricultural extension workers play a significant role in supporting this initiative through the Sustainable Urban Farming (P2L ...
Yunanto Yunanto, Retno Wulandari
doaj   +1 more source

Farmers’ Perception of Good Agricultural Practices in Rice Production in Myanmar: A Case Study of Myaungmya District, Ayeyarwady Region

Agriculture, 2020
Although the Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MOAI) implemented Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) in rice production, farmers’ application of GAPs is decreasing.
Soe Paing Oo, Koichi Usami
doaj   +1 more source

Climate variability indicators - scientific data versus farmers perception; evidence from southern Ghana

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2023
Even though copious knowledge has been advanced in the extant literature on climate variability and change. Two schools of thought exist—one that views farmers’ perceptions of climate indicators as erroneous and inferior, while the other views ...
Daniel Adu Ankrah, Jojo Mensah, Jonathan Nicholas Anaglo, Seth Dankyi Boateng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina, Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Motivation and Perception of Farmers Response to Sugarcane Management Consolidation Program Plan

Agro Ekonomi, 2020
This study aimed to analyze (1) the difference levels of motivation, perception and behavioral responses of sugar cane farmers with irrigated land and rainfed land to the cane grower management consolidation plan, and (2) the effect of motivation and ...
Mohamad Cholidi, Irham Irham, Lestari Rahayu Waluyati   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source