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Planting the Seeds for Public Health: How the Farm Bill Can Help Farmers to Produce and Distribute Healthy Foods [PDF]

, 2010
Analyzes provisions in the 2008 Farm Bill that impede farmers' production and strategic marketing of fruits and vegetables. Recommends policy changes to remove such barriers, improve consumer access to healthy foods, and help prevent childhood ...
Jill E. Krueger, Karen R. Krub, Lynn A. Hayes   +2 more
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The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

Fruit Crops: Peaches [PDF]

, 2016
Comstock mealybug, Pseudococcus comstocki (Kuwana), has been reported on peaches in Illinois. Egg masses are commonly present on fruits, limbs, and bases of new shoots. Phenacoccus mespili Sign. is known to be a pest of peaches in the Azerbaijan SSR, USSR (Ibadova 1985).
openaire   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Transcriptome analysis reveals the role of GA in fruit development of ‘Cuiguan’ pear (Pyrus pyrifolia)

BMC Plant Biology
Background Fruit size is a crucial agronomic trait that significantly influences fruit quality and economic value. Gibberellin serves as an effective phytohormone that promotes fruit expansion and is widely utilized during the early stages of fruit ...
Wenjing Zhai, Xiangzhan Zhang, Yanan Wang, Suke Wang, Yanli Su, Long Wang, Huabai Xue   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of abscisic acid and gibberellin on sugar accumulation in 'Fengtang' Plum (Prunus salicina LindI.)

Horticultural Science
To investigate the regulation mechanism of exogenous plant growth regulators on the sugar accumulation of 'Fengtang' plum fruits, and to provide theoretical support for improving the sugar content of 'Fengtang' plum fruits.
Qianjun Song, Xiaoshuang Nie, Hong Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Vertical project : designing fruit agroforestry systems for a renewed horticulture [PDF]

, 2015
Although it's addressing multiple issues for modern farming, agroforestry mixing fruit trees and annual crops (mainly vegetables) has not been so well documented under temperate climate.
Castel, Laurie, Fourrié, Laetitia, Poliakoff, Hélène, Ronzon, Julien, Warlop, Francois   +4 more
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vis/NIR Spectroscopy and Vis/NIR Hyperspectral Imaging for Non-Destructive Monitoring of Apricot Fruit Internal Quality with Machine Learning

Foods
The fruit supply chain requires simple, non-destructive, and fast tools for quality evaluation both in the field and during the post-harvest phase. In this study, a portable visible and near-infrared (Vis/NIR) spectrophotometer and a portable Vis/NIR ...
Tiziana Amoriello, Roberto Ciorba, Gaia Ruggiero, Francesca Masciola, Daniela Scutaru, Roberto Ciccoritti   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative genomics analysis provide insights into evolution and stress responses of Lhcb genes in Rosaceae fruit crops. [PDF]

BMC Plant Biol, 2023
Li X, Jiang Z, Zhang C, Cai K, Wang H, Pan W, Sun X, Gao Y, Xu K.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source