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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 ...
Alvaro Llaria +3 more
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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
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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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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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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