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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah +4 more
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, 2018 Due to climate changes, the importance of precipitation measurements, for scientific studies and agricultural purposes, have increased significantly over the years.
Soh, Jun Ming
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Summary of basic statistics for TMPA and rain gauge at different timescales.
, 2015 Note: Max, Min, Mean, and Sd represent maximum, minimum, mean value and standard deviation of precipitation time series at various timescales for Tropical Multisatellite Precipitation Analysis (TMPA) and rain gauge, respectively.
Yancong Cai (5662726) +6 more
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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 +2 more
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Quality control of hourly rain gauge data based on radar and satellite multi-source data
Journal of HydroinformaticsRain gauge networks provide direct precipitation measurements and have been widely used in hydrology, synoptic-scale meteorology, and climatology. However, rain gauge observations are subject to a variety of error sources, and quality control (QC) is ...
Qiaoqiao Yan +5 more
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, 2016 To improve the quantitative description of precipitation processes in climate models, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility deployed rain gauges located near disdrometers (DISD and VDIS data streams). This handbook deals specifically with the rain gauges that make the observations for the RAIN data stream.
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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Comparison of semivariogram models in rain gauge network design [PDF]
, 2018 The well-known geostatistics method (variance-reduction method) is common used to determine the optimal rain gauge network. The main problem in geostatistics method to determine the best semivariogram model in order to be used in estimating the variance.
Zalina, Mohd Daud +4 more
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Advances in Meteorology, 2019 As a tipping bucket rain gauge, the HOBO Data Logging Rain Gauge RG3-M (RG3-M) has been widely used for the field precipitation observation owing to its superiority of independent power supply by a small portable battery.
Zehui Zhou +8 more
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XXX. On a new rain gauge [PDF]
The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Sciencen ...
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