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Orchard Floor Management Strategies Enhance Kiwifruit Sugar Accumulation in Semi-Arid Regions: Synergistic Regulation Through Soil Water Conservation and Photosynthetic Improvement

Agronomy
Optimizing orchard mulching regimes is a pivotal strategy for mitigating the detrimental effects of water scarcity and soil degradation on kiwifruit productivity in the Guanzhong Plain, China.
Manning Li, Hongxia Cao, Juncheng Zhao, Zijian He, Bangxin Ding, Zhijun Li   +5 more
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Keeping Pace or Falling Behind? The Depth of Latin American Trade Agreements

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether Latin American countries are keeping pace with global trends in trade agreement depth or falling behind. Using 681 agreements (1970–2019), we develop the Depth Index of Trade Agreements (DITA) to weight provisions endogenously through factor analysis based on co‐occurrence patterns.
Raphael Gomes da Silva, Fernanda Aparecida Silva, Lia Nogueira   +2 more
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Differentiated Impacts of EU Rural Development Measures: A Finite Mixture Evaluation of Italian Olive Farms

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the relationship between participation in the EU Rural Development Program and the economic performance of Italian olive farms using a finite‐mixture model with inverse‐probability‐weighted regression adjustment. Based on 2010–2022 FADN panel data, it estimates heterogeneous treatment effects while correcting for selection ...
Francesco Caracciolo, Marilena Furno
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Automatic Lettuce Weed Detection and Classification Based on Optimized Convolutional Neural Networks for Robotic Weed Control

Agronomy
Weed management plays a crucial role in the growth and yield of lettuce, with timely and effective weed control significantly enhancing production. However, the increasing labor costs and the detrimental environmental impact of chemical herbicides have ...
Chang-Tao Zhao, Rui-Feng Wang, Yu-Hao Tu, Xiao-Xu Pang, Wen-Hao Su   +4 more
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Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source

Robotic Seeder for Cereals, Legumes and other Crops in Early-stage Breeding Trials

Сельскохозяйственные машины и технологии
The advancement of seeding technologies aimed at improving sowing quality and reducing labor intensity has underscored the need to modernize selective seeders through the robotic integration.
A. S. Chulkov, L. Yu. Yuferev, O. V. Maschev   +2 more
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Not All Agreements Are Equal: Heterogeneous Effects of RTAs on Latin American Agri‐Food Exports, 1990–2019

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the final decade of the 20th century, Latin American countries have increasingly regarded the signing of regional trade agreements (RTAs) as a promising strategy for expanding their exports. Within this context, the main objective of this study is to assess the impact of RTAs on agri‐food exports in Latin America over the period 1990 ...
María‐Isabel Ayuda, Ignacio Belloc, Vicente Pinilla   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Inter and Intra-row Spacing on Seed Yield and Yield Components of Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) at Northwestern Ethiopia

Blue Nile Journal of Agricultural Research
An experiment was conducted to determine the optimum inter- and intra-row spacing for maximizing sunflower seed yield in the lowland areas of Metema and West Armachiho districts during the 2022/23 and 2023/24 main rainy seasons.
Fentahun Biset, Melaku Azanaw, Mogose Marie, Simachew Kasahun, Anteneh Adebabay, Tesfa Kasahun, Gizat Adugna, Getahun Ademe, Stotaw Zemene, Yisemawu Degnet   +9 more
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Maximization of Seed Size Tuber Production in Early Bulking Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Variety Kufri Khyati

International Journal of Bio-Resource and Stress Management, 2017
A field experiment was conducted at ICAR Central Potato Research Station Gwalior, MP, during 2015–16 and 2016–17 to study the effect of intra-row spacing, nitrogen levels and date of haulm killing on production of higher proportion of seed size tubers ...
Murlidhar Sadawarti, R. K. Singh, R. K. Samadhiya, S. P. Singh, K. K. Pandey, Satyajit Roy, S. K. Chakrabarti   +6 more
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Embedded vision system for intra-row weeding

, 2006
Weed control is nowadays a hi-tech discipline. Inter-row weed control is very sophisticated whereas the intra-row weed control lacks a lot. The aim of this pro ject is to implement an embedded system of an autonomous vision based intra-row weeding robot.
openaire   +1 more source