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Utilizing machine learning to optimize agricultural inputs for improved rice production benefits

open access: yesiScience
Summary: Lower efficiency of agricultural inputs in the four conventional rice planting methods limits productivity and environmental benefits in Southwest China.
Tao Liu   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rice, Millets, Social Complexity and the Spread of Millet Agriculture to the Chengdu Plain and Southwest China

open access: yes, 2015
The Chengdu plain of south-west China lies outside the main centres of early domestication in the Huanghe and Yangzi valleys, but its importance in Chinese prehistory is demonstrated by the spectacular Sanxingdui bronzes of the second millennium BC and ...
D'Alpoim Guedes, Jade
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An account of THE CULTIVATION OF RICE IN MALACCA

open access: yes, 1897
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Blagden, Charles Otto   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Indoor and outdoor rice straw mushroom cultivation

open access: yes
Rice straw, a byproduct of Vietnam's rice production, generates approximately 47 million tons annually. However, the combination of high collection costs, low market prices, lack of sustainable management practices, and limited value-added business ...
International Rice Research Institute
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Nothing to See Here: Researching Non‐Recent Child Abuse in Schools and the Politics of Silence

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While institutions, including schools, have responsibilities to protect children from harm, responses to instances of child sexual abuse have often exhibited avoidance and denial. Recent public inquiries in Australia revealed that some institutions, particularly in the Catholic sector, employed a deliberate strategy of silence which was used ...
John Crowley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

PROFIT EFFICIENCY AMONG BANGLADESHI RICE FARMERS

open access: yes
Production inefficiency is usually analysed by its two components - technical efficiency and allocative efficiency. In this study we provide a direct measure of production efficiency of the Bangladeshi rice farmers using a stochastic profit frontier and ...
Rahman, Sanzidur
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Rice genetic resources in postwar Sierra Leone

open access: yes, 2009
This research presents the effect of the 10-year long civil war in Sierra Leone on rice genetic resources, using farmers and their seed systems in three selected districts as reference points.
Chakanda, R.T.M.
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Scenario Analysis of Rice Cultivation in Kerala

open access: yes, 2017
Rice is the staple food crop of Kerala. At present only 12% of the gross cropped area in the state is under paddy. The paddy fields in Kerala are constantly getting converted for other purposes.
Hari, Athira   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Sustainable Palm Oil Extraction and Trends in the Use of Green Technologies: State‐of‐the‐Art and Future Directions

open access: yesJournal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Palm oil, which is extracted from the mesocarp of the fruit of the Elaeis guineensis Jacq. palm tree, is the most widely produced vegetable oil in the world. The extraction of this substance typically utilizes the conventional pressing method, a technique that is advantageous due to its low operating cost and simplified process.
Constantino Lucas Queta   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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