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Modelling the Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Rice Cultivation in Mekong Delta, Vietnam

open access: yes, 2020
Rice paddy fields, considered as a human-made wetland ecosystems, play important roles in food production and ecosystem conservation. Nowadays, rice cultivation in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, is under severe threat from climate changes, yet there is a ...
A. Dang, L. Kumar, M. Reid
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The BTB/POZ‐MATH Protein ZmBPM1 Interacts With Autophagy‐related Protein ZmATG6 and Modulates the NLR Protein Rp1‐D21‐Mediated Defense Response in Maize

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
The maize BTB/POZ‐MATH (BPM) protein ZmBPM1 interacts with autophagy‐related protein ZmATG6 to relocate the NLR protein Rp1‐D21 from the nucleo‐cytoplasmic compartment into autophagosome‐like puncta, leading to autophagy‐mediated turnover and suppressing the hypersensitive response.
Chang‐Xiao Tang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Consideraton on the Shifting Cultivation and the Origin of Rice-cultivation

open access: yesGeographical Review of Japan, 1951
Most of our archaeologists have regarded obscurely that the origin of ricecrop and the history of rice-breeding began on the swampy grounds at the margin of ponds or marshes. Accurately speaking, however, the localisation of wet rice field was not on morass-grounds under stagnant water, but clay-loam or loamy bog-beds under nearly stationary shallow ...
openaire   +2 more sources

How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rice Cultivation In Deccan

open access: yes, 2020
The beginnings of rice cultivation in India are supposed to have been in Lahuradewa, in the eastern Uttar Pradesh around 6,000 BCE. The rice associated with Lahuradewa shares key domestication mutations with East Asian japonica rice. [Kingwell-Banham et al, 2015 : Early Agriculture in South Asia, in The Cambridge World History, Vol.
openaire   +1 more source

Risk Factors of Leptospirosis in Rice Cultivators as Compared to non Rice Cultivators in Punjab, Pakistan

open access: yesAnnals of King Edward Medical University, 2017
Leptospirosis is a global zoonotic infectious disease having alarming public health concerns. Generally this is an occupation related disease and the victims belong to animal slaughtering, owners of pet shops, farm workers, handlers of meat, sewerage and agriculture workers. Leptospirosis affect multiple organs in human body and may lead to myocarditis,
Muhammad Athar Khan   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Low Participation and Risk Reduction Potential of Supplemental Crop Insurance in the United States

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Federally subsidized crop insurance is a cornerstone of U.S. farm risk management, yet policies with the greatest share of participation only trigger indemnities after losses exceed 15%. Supplemental insurance was introduced to cover part of this deductible, but participation remains largely unchanged.
Francis Tsiboe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of comprehensive benefit on water-saving rice cultivation patterns in seasonal droughts hilly region of southern China

open access: yes浙江大学学报. 农业与生命科学版, 2008
Based on the season droughts and situation of rice cultivation in hilly region of southern China, the analytic hierarchical process theory is applied to establish a mathematical model and indicators system for evaluating the comprehensive benefits of ...
XIAO Xin, ZHAO Yan-wen, HU Feng
doaj   +1 more source

Heavy Metal Contamination: Impacts From Plants to the Food Chain and Eco‐Friendly Amelioration Strategies

open access: yesAgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Heavy metal pollution reduces soil health and threatens food safety by entering plants; however, the use of nanoparticles, biofertilizers, and organic fertilizers such as biochar offers a promising strategy for improvement and sustainable agriculture. ABSTRACT Heavy metal (HM) pollution, resulting from human activities such as mining and the excessive ...
Sina Siavash Moghaddam   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

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