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Circularity, Sustainability, and the Quality of Coffee Sold via Vending Machines: What Do Italian Consumers Prefer?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vending is an important sector in the daily lives of many people, and coffee is the most frequently consumed product in the European market. Like many other sectors, vending is responding to the challenge of sustainable development by taking various actions, such as offering increasingly ecologically sound coffee while maintaining/improving ...
Alberto Bertossi, Stefania Troiano, Francesco Marangon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic assessment of the effects of self-fertilization in a Lilium L. hybrids using molecular cytogenetic methods (FISH and ISSR). [PDF]

Saudi J Biol Sci, 2021
Ramzan F, Kim HT, Younis A, Ramzan Y, Lim KB.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Diversity of citron (Citrus medica) and phylogenetic analysis of related citron hybrids using molecular markers and essential oil composition [PDF]

, 2015
Citrus diversity is known to be essentially supported by three essential basic species, mandarin, pummelo and citron, which are at the origin of quite all the cultivated citrus.
Costa, Jean, Costantino, Gilles, Luro, François, Ollitrault, Patrick, Paolini, Julien, Tur, Isabelle, Venturini, Nicolas   +6 more
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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

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, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal design and experimental research on the spiral groove wheel fertilizer apparatus

Scientific Reports
As the "core" of fertilizer machinery, the fertilizer apparatus has a significant impact on the effect of fertilization operation. At present, the straight-grooves type external groove wheel fertilizer apparatus is widely used, which has the problem that
Fujun Wen, Honghai Wang, Lai Zhou, Qingchuang Zhu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

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, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can ploidy changes propel the evolution of allogamy in a selfing species complex?

BMC Plant Biology
Background The transition to self-fertilization has occurred repeatedly across diverse plant groups, and the evolutionary consequences of selfing typically suggest that a shift toward outcrossing is unlikely.
Ana García-Muñoz, Camilo Ferrón, Celia Vaca-Benito, Carlos Olmedo-Castellanos, María Nazaret Martínez-Gómez, Tatiana López-Pérez, Mohammed Bakkali, Sílvia Castro, Mariana Castro, João Loureiro, A. Jesús Muñoz-Pajares, Mohamed Abdelaziz   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

An investigation of the self- and inter-incompatibility of the olive cultivars 'Arbequina' and 'Koroneiki' in the Mediterranean climate of Sicily [PDF]

, 2016
In this investigation, the self-(in)compatibility of the Spanish cultivar Arbequina and the Greek cultivar Koroneiki was studied for the first time in Sicily, where these low vigour cultivars were recently introduced in super-intensive olive groves. Self-
CARUSO, Tiziano, COSTA, Francesca, FRETTO, Silvia, MARCHESE, Annalisa, MARRA, Francesco Paolo, Quartararo, Alessandra   +5 more
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