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, 2022 Terracing is the oldest technique for water and soil conservation on natural hilly slopes. In Northern Thailand, terraced paddy fields were constructed long ago, but scientific questions remain on how terraced paddy fields and upland rice (non-terraced ...
Sukanya Sereenonchai +3 more
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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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Agriculture, 2020 This study was conducted to elucidate how changes in critical soil quality characteristics relate to continuous rice cultivation and changes in cropping systems and fertilization in South China over the time span 1980 to 2017.
Xiangning Ren +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda +3 more
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Bacterial communities in paddy soil and ditch sediment under rice-crab co-culture system
AMB Express, 2021 As an important form of sustainable agriculture, rice-crab (Eriocheir sinensis) co-culture is rapid developing worldwide. However, the knowledge on the bacterial communities of the different components of the system is limited.
Xu Jiang +5 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Preserving ecosystem services, along with economic and environmental benefits, will require future landscape policies to identify and incorporate relevant landscape features. In this paper, we investigate the causal effect of agricultural landscape simplification on drought‐related grassland damages.
Marco Ferro +5 more
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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022 Incubation experiments were conducted to investigate the influencing factors of pH variation in different paddy soils during submerging/draining alternation and the relationship between pH buffering capacity (pHBC) and Cd speciation in ten paddy soils ...
Hai-long Lu +7 more
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Arsenic bioavailability to rice plant in paddy soil: influence of microbial sulfate reduction
, 2015 High arsenic (As) mobility in anaerobic paddy soil due to microbial Fe- and As-reducing processes results in As accumulation into rice plants. Sulfur (S) also undergoes microbial reducing processes in the anaerobic paddy soil, while this process ...
Zhu, Yong-Guan, Jia, Yan, Bao, Peng
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
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Tropical Agricultural Research, 2015 Available soil-phosphorus (P), exchangeable soil-potassium (K), soil pH and soil Electrical Conductivity (EC) affect rice production and are highly variable in nature mainly due to the variability in water availability.
W.M.U.K. Rathnayake +2 more
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