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Agricultural engineering in the ecological mountain farms
2005Mountains and hilly regions in Poland are very important for Polish economy because they do not only account for 8% of Polish territory, but also fulfil a significant role in environmental protection of water supply for the rivers, in tourism and in the ecological chain of plants and animals.
Jucherski, Andrzej +5 more
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Geolocation and monitoring platform for extensive farming in mountain pastures
2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2015Nowadays, interconnected ubiquitous objects are more and more present in different applications as a technical solution to collect, every time and everywhere, great amounts of data which are accessible through the Internet. One interesting area of application is the monitoring of cattle, in order not only to improve the farming working conditions but ...
Llaria, Alvaro +3 more
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Farming in the northern mountains of Pakistan: Role of women
Gender and Behaviour, 2007Women in the Northern Mountains of Pakistan are actively involved in sowing (except maize), weeding/hoeing, thinning, input transportation to the fields (except for wheat) and its application, irrigation, harvesting and grading (in case of potato). Beside these activities, women of the area are also involved in fruit plants management i.e., in weeds ...
Ishaq, M, Farooq, A
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Yeoman Farming in the Mountains
Abstract This chapter follows the Dean family lineage from immigration to America to their participation in the Populist uprising in the 1890s. It describes yeoman farming in the Appalachian hills, and the division in the family between the yeoman farmers in Alabama and the rich planter slaveholders in Missisippi. Joseph Dean, the author’openaire +1 more source
Nature Conservation Value of European Mountain Farming Systems
2005High nature value (HNV) farming areas are regarded as farmland where there are intimate relationships between farming practices and biodiversity and where the continuation of those farming practices is essential for the maintenance of this biodiversity value (e.g. Bignal 1998; Luick 1998; Ostermann 1998; Webb 1998; Zervas 1998). By the mid 1990s, there
McCracken, DI, Huband, S
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The Profitability of Seasonal Mountain Dairy farming in Norway
2014In this paper the economics of seasonal production of cheese in the mountain in Norway is investigated and compared with keeping the cows at the farm, investing in a common pasture or in co-operative dairy farming. The comparison is based on calculations in a linear programming (LP) farm model supported with Stochastic Dominance with Respect to a ...
Asheim, Leif Jarle +5 more
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Ways of adaptation of mountain farms
1996Les exploitations agricoles françaises restent marquées par une imbrication indissociable entre l'unité de production et le groupe familial qui la pilote. L'exploitation agricole est certes soumise aux règles économiques, mais sa stratégie ne se réduit pas à l'obtention du revenu agricole maximum.
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Mountain farming is a combat sport
2016Il y a cinquante ans, Henri Mendras annonçait La fin des paysans. Il n'entendait pas par là la disparition des exploitations agricoles mais celle des communautés paysannes, caractérisées par des relations particulières des hommes entre eux, avec leurs terroirs et avec leurs animaux.
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