Farming - Science topic

I'm doing a study on the shelf life and suberizationprocess of winter squash. I couldn't find a study that specifically researched the factors that influence the shelf life of winter squash.

The ever-increasing price of food products purchased by consumers in stores is another argument for buying products directly from a farmer producing real healthy, non-chemical-soaked crops produced according to the formula of sustainable organic farming, bypassing middlemen, commodity logistics centers, processing plants, stores and shopping malls, which sell crops or processed food products many times more expensive compared to the farmer's prices, and/or to set up a fruit and vegetable garden for your own needs and become independent of expensive middlemen and unnecessary costs. With such a solution, the farmer would earn more and the consumer would buy healthy crops much cheaper. Well, but the political pressure for these simple solutions to many problems is not there. Why? Because then the revenue from indirect taxes to the state budget, from VAT would be able to fall significantly, and after all, VAT is still the main source of revenue to the state budget in Poland. Well, such is the tax system we have. And could it be different? It could, but unfortunately it's easier to tax citizens and entities with lower and lowest incomes than those with higher incomes, who often also set up fictitious headquarters in tax havens in order to additionally pay even less taxes into the state's public finance system. Besides, this kind of solution would be good for the climate and the environment for many reasons. Maintaining home vegetable, fruit and flower gardens would save money for citizens, reduce environmental pollution from exhaust fumes emitted by cars transporting agricultural crops from the field to logistics centers, agri-food processing companies and then processed food products delivered to stores, shopping centers in cities, food discounters and hypermarkets. In addition, citizens who run vegetable and fruit gardens to obtain their own vegetable crops, their own vegetables and fruits usually do not use chemical pesticides, so the resulting food is realistically healthier than what is purchased in vegetable stores, discount stores and hypermarkets, where vegetables and fruits and the processed food products made from them go, which were grown in farm fields in a model of intensive, production-intensive, highly exploitative soil, climate and environment unsustainable agriculture formula. On the other hand, in the situation of running subsistence vegetable, fruit and flower gardens without the use of chemical pesticides, in which most or all of the farming and tending work is done by hand, with a high level of biodiversity, taking into account the coexistence in the garden of different species and varieties of crops, vegetables, fruits, flower meadows, shrubs and trees is this type of mini-agriculture, running the said gardens is close to the formula of pro-ecological, pro-climate, pro-environmental sustainable organic agriculture. Occurring in this kind of biodiverse gardens also flower meadows, flowering various species of grasses, perennials, meadow plants, as well as shrubs and trees is very friendly to pollinating insects, including bees, whose population has declined by several tens of percent over the past few decades of time. In addition, in such flower gardens, insect houses are increasingly being built and/or beehives are being erected to ensure the functioning of pollinating insects in the micro-biodiversity ecosystem thus created. On the other hand, in managing even small home vegetable and flower gardens, in their planning and organzation, the new information technology of advanced data processing, including generative artificial intelligence technology, can be of great help.

I am conducting research on this issue. I have included the conclusions of my research in the following article:

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY

I invite you to discuss this important topic for the future of the planet's biosphere and climate.

I have described the key issues of opportunities and threats to the development of artificial intelligence technology in my article below:

OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE APPLICATIONS AND THE NEED FOR NORMATIVE REGULATION OF THIS DEVELOPMENT

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

And what is your opinion about it?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

One of the consequences of the progressive process of global warming is the rapidly declining surface and sub-surface water resources in increasingly large land areas, including areas used for agriculture. From the results of thousands of scientific papers, it is known that the global warming process, which has been progressing more and more rapidly over the past more than 2 centuries, is the result of the accumulation of excess greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere, including CO2, methane and others in the period since the beginning of the first industrial revolution. Therefore, on the one hand, in order to slow down the progressive process of global warming, a green transformation of the economy is being carried out with a special focus on those sectors of the economy that generate the most greenhouse gas emissions. This kind of sector is also carried out in a formula of climate and environmentally unsustainable and industrial livestock farming, mainly cows. However, the processes of green transformation of the economy, including the green transformation of energy, transportation, construction and also agriculture, including the development of sustainable agriculture of organic crop farming is progressing too slowly, greenhouse gas emissions are still high, the process of global warming continues to progress rapidly, the planet's greenhouse effect is worsening, the scale of weather anomalies and climatic disasters and the negative effects of climate change such as droughts, heat, water shortages are steadily increasing. Therefore, in parallel with the processes of green transformation of the economy, it is necessary to create systems for protecting the biosphere, counteracting the negative effects of climate change, safeguarding the achievements of human civilization from the escalation of the negative effects of the progressive process of global warming in the future, using new technologies at the same time to organize solutions to reduce the scale of the negative impact of climate change processes on the man-made economy, and thus safeguarding future generations of people from the development of negative scenarios of future deepening of the said negative processes of climate change. Such protective measures, safeguarding the economy and limiting the scale of the negative effects of the progressive process of global warming should also include farms. Within the framework of such protective measures, it is necessary to create technological solutions that increase the scale of saving water used in agriculture, develop systems and installations for catching rainwater and collecting it in specially created retention tanks, etc. In addition, as part of the development of sustainable organic agriculture, it is also necessary to improve waste separation and recycling systems, improve composting techniques, build small-scale power plants that generate energy for the farm from renewable energy sources (solar, wind, geothermal, biogas plants), return to old farming techniques, e.g., rotating and fallowing in order to increase the amount of water used in agriculture. rotation and fallowing to slow the process of soil aridity, replacement of pesticides and other chemical pesticides and fertilizers with their organic counterparts, increasing the scale of agricultural biodiversity instead of production monocultures of crops of a single variety of agricultural crops, creation of crop varieties more resistant to biotic and abiotic environmental factors, including more resistant to the worsening negative effects of climate change, etc. The implementation of this plan is expected to help

The implementation of the plan for the green transformation of the economy, including agriculture, is to be helped by a European Union program referred to as the EU's New Green Deal. Farmers are well aware of all this. However, on the other hand, in the online social media, organized criminal groups acting on behalf of certain political and business circles are carrying out disinformation and paraheterist actions vilifying the European Union and the EU's New Green Deal. Such organized disinformation and paraheterist activities have recently intensified in connection with the European Parliament elections.

I have described the key issues concerning the problems of the green transformation of the economy in the following article:

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this issue?

Please answer,

I invite everyone to join the discussion,

Thank you very much,

Best regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

I am eager to know your insights on cutting-edge practices, technologies, or methodologies that show potential in improving soil health. From microbial applications to sustainable farming practices, let me know your thoughts and ideas. 😊🌱🌾

Agri-SAR image database?

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With a rapidly growing global population, concerns and questions about the ability to feed the ever-increasing number of people living on planet Earth have been around for many years, but still remain. With a growing population, the scale of civilisation's processing of environmental matter, the scale of industrialisation, the consumption of renewable and increasingly also non-renewable raw materials, the increasing scale of waste generation, environmental pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, etc., the possibilities of feeding the world's population in the future will diminish rather than increase. In addition, the negative effects of the development of civilisation, including above all the accelerating process of global warming, may develop at an even faster rate. Therefore, it is necessary to urgently shift the development of civilisation towards sustainability, to significantly increase the scale of implementation of sustainable development goals, to carry out a green transformation of the economy, including a green transformation of agriculture, and to create new forms of sustainable organic farming, which will be more resistant to negative biotic and abiotic external factors, including, above all, limited resources of agricultural land and the successively increasing negative impact of the progressing process of global warming, including increasingly frequent periods of drought, soil barrenness, plagues of pests and various diseases affecting agricultural crops, etc., which will have a negative impact on the development of civilisation.

Therefore, combining the seemingly contradictory goals of increasing the production of food for people with a reduction in the agricultural areas on which agriculture is practised according to the traditional production formula, stopping deforestation turned into aforestation, increasing the production of crops for human rather than livestock consumption, significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing the scale of pro-environmental agriculture, etc., it is precisely the development of vertical farming that can help in this process of green transformation of agriculture.

Vertical farming, also referred to by such terms as vertical farming, vertical farms, consists of growing crops in a vertical formula, in which individual plants are placed one above the other on multi-level platforms. This results in a more efficient use of space, practically multiplying the cultivation area. In addition, vertical cultivation can be established and cultivated anywhere, even in the centre of a large city. Vertical cultivation can be established both in specially designed halls and by adapting existing buildings. Crops such as lettuce, strawberries, herbs and mushrooms, for example, are grown in vertical racks, towers with troughs or purpose-built systems with continuous irrigation and additional artificial lighting.

In view of the above, vertical farming is becoming an excellent alternative to traditional agriculture. The vertical positioning of plants allows a very good use of space, as a result of which significant yields can be obtained from a small area. Vertical farming uses up to 10 times less water compared to traditional agriculture. In addition, vertical farming does not use pesticides and other chemical plant protection products, as the plants are grown in closed, air-conditioned rooms with artificial lighting.

These can even be created in multi-storey buildings in cities or in halls located on the outskirts of cities. This also saves on transport and increases the food self-sufficiency of cities. The problem of droughts occurring more and more frequently in areas of fields cultivated under traditional agriculture does not apply to vertical farming. Therefore, vertical agriculture can be an excellent complement and can also partially replace traditional agriculture in the context of the progressive process of global warming. Therefore, in the context of a progressive global warming process, vertical farming can be an excellent complement to traditionally practised sustainable organic farming. In addition, vertical farming, due to the absence of pesticides and other chemical plant protection products, can also be carried out according to the basic principles that apply to organic farming.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

And what is your opinion on this?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Hoping to hear your opinions, to know your personal opinion, to have an honest approach to discussing scientific issues and not ChatGPT-generated ready-made answers, I deliberately used the phrase "in your opinion" in the question.

The above text is entirely my own work written by me on the basis of my research.

I have not used other sources or automatic text generation systems such as ChatGPT in writing this text.

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Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

I am writing a book on biosensors for agrifood sector and I am looking for a researcher working on the use of drones for biosensor/sensor application in precision farming.

"Sustainable agriculture" and ecological agriculture" are two very popular terms for both government and non-government workers. Many people use them interchangeably thereby causing a lot of confusion. But are they synonymous?

yes or no? why?

We are currently working on a sensoring system which measures soil humidity, temperature, nitrogen, phosphor, potassium and ph level. We are trying to stimulate the efficiency of farming and support local farmers. One of our problems is that we are able to measure the level of humidity in percentages but this does not help farmers enough. Our advice is not accurate when we just compare the level of humidity of different farming fields and do not account for other factors like rainfall, temperature/humidity of the air and maybe even other factors like different crops. My question is: is there a formula that is able to calculate which farming field would need irrigation the most. We would like to be able to calculate every field and give a ranking which field would need irrigation the most, we think this way we could help save water and also stimulate the food supply.

If you think you could help me any way feel free to respond on this post or send me a direct email on mjd.lacrois@student.han.nl. Thank you in advance!

Currently, globally, three quarters of arable land is used for intensive, unsustainable arable crop production for livestock feed. Livestock farms, primarily cows and pigs, are one of several major sources of greenhouse gas emissions, including a major source of methane emissions into the atmosphere, one of the most dangerous greenhouse gases. Therefore, replacing unsustainable intensive agriculture with sustainable organic agriculture would solve the problems of hunger in many parts of the world, reduce the scale of environmental pollution from pesticides, fertilisers and other derivatives of intensive, unsustainable agricultural production and also allow for increased afforestation of uncultivated areas and consequently significantly reduce the scale of greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the main goal of building a sustainable, emission-free, green circular economy and thus halting the increasingly rapid process of global warming. Stopping the rise in atmospheric temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius since the start of the first industrial revolution is the main strategic objective of global climate policy and saving the world from a global climate catastrophe, which, according to long-term climate change projections, may already occur at the end of this 21st century. In this context, the development of sustainable organic agriculture producing crops directly for human food rather than livestock is, along with the green transformation of the energy sector, the development of renewable and emission-free energy sources, the development of electromobility, increasing the scale of reforestation, the green transformation of emission-intensive industries, the development of sustainable construction, the improvement of waste separation and recycling techniques and processes, etc., one of several key factors in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The fourth technological revolution currently underway may prove helpful in achieving the above goals. Therefore, Agriculture 4.0, i.e. the application of 4.0 technologies, i.e. technologies typical of the current fourth technological revolution, including those included in Industry 4.0 in agriculture, may prove to be helpful in the smooth implementation of the green revolution in agriculture. The use of new ICT information technologies and Industry 4. 0 makes it possible to increase the scale of automation of crop management and control processes, including the use of satellite monitoring technologies, the precise determination of the composition and dosage of the mixture of organic fertilisers and natural plant protection products, the improvement of irrigation management systems in correlation with changes in the weather, the conduct of analytics of the biochemical and organic composition of soil, design and management of agricultural crop biodiversity and green space management in the surroundings of agricultural fields, automated monitoring and management of renewable and emission-free energy sources supplying the farm with electricity and heat, improvement of waste segregation techniques, recycling, management of composting facilities, etc. In terms of Industry 4.0 technologies, robotics, integrated farm management information systems, Internet of Things technologies, cloud computing, smart technologies, learning machines, deep learning, artificial intelligence, Big Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, digital twins, multi-criteria simulation models, drone technology, 3D printer engineering, additive manufacturing, Blockchain, cyber-security instruments, etc., are among those particularly helpful in achieving the above goals of developing sustainable organic agriculture.

In view of the above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of scientists and researchers:

And what is your opinion on this?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Warm regards,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

In order to slow down the progressive process of global warming, it is necessary to increase the efficiency and accelerate the implementation of the green transformation of the economy in order to create a sustainable, zero-emission, green circular economy as quickly as possible. In the process of efficiently implementing the green economy transition, there are several essential components, which include the green energy transition based on the development of renewable and zero-emission energy sources, the development of electro-mobility, the development of sustainable organic agriculture, sustainable energy-efficient construction, low-carbon mining and industry, etc. The development of agricultural cooperatives that run sustainable business ventures supporting farm management, the development of composting facilities, the improvement of the post-agricultural waste separation system and increasing recycling, the development of small-scale renewable and zero-emission energy power plants supplying energy to farms, and the development of biogas plants are important factors in the development of sustainable, zero-emission organic agriculture that also realises the objectives of sustainable development and the principles of a sharing economy and a closed loop economy. Biogas plants, including microbial energy plants that generate energy from biogas that can be produced from livestock manure, can play an important role in bringing about a green transformation of agriculture to create sustainable, emission-free, climate- and environment-friendly organic agriculture, including both sustainable, emission-free agriculture based on crop production and emission-free livestock farming. Biogas plants can be set up and built primarily by farmers' cooperatives and microbial gas plants can be built within individual farms. In this way, farms can be self-sufficient in energy. In addition, a positive pro-climate effect results from the combustion of methane, which is particularly strong in terms of generating the greenhouse effect, because even if the CO2 produced by combustion is not bound into certain rock materials and is released into the atmosphere, the greenhouse effect will be much weaker compared to methane. However, a much better pro-climate solution would be not to emit CO2 into the atmosphere, but to bind it to a specific rock form or to inject it deep into the earth's crust in rock layers that will absorb and chemically bind the gas. In view of the above, biogas plants can play an important role in the development of sustainable, emission-free organic agriculture. However, fully climate-friendly biogas plants will be those that do not generate other greenhouse gases when burning methane. Biogas plants can also produce bioethanol, the combustion of which can be a source of energy and has low emissions.

In view of the above, I would like to address the following question to the scientific and research community:

What do you think about this topic?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please respond,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Best wishes,

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Looking for Climate-Smart agriculture (CSA) techniques which can be practically implemented in the existing agricultural fields i.e. on ground while farming.

In recent years, data science has emerged as a promising interdisciplinary subject, and helped understand and analyze actual phenomena with data in multiple areas. The availability and interpretation of large size data that is a vital tool for many businesses and companies has changed business models, and led to creation of new data-driven businesses.

In agriculture including crop improvement programs, both short and long term experiments are conducted, and big size data is generated. However, deep data mining, meaningful interpretation, deeper extraction of knowledge and learning from data sets are more often missing. Whether application of data science is also vital in agriculture including crop improvement for understanding and analyzing the actual phenomena and extracting deeper knowledge??

What economic assessment approaches of the various mitigation options are you possibly using?

Do you examine the various options for the implications of the farm’s profitability?

Do you carry out cost-effectiveness assessments at farm, territorial or global level?

What could be the approaches to land consolidation of fragmented land?

All countries of the world do not produce as much agricultural goods as they consume, specifically food items. What can happen with such countries if due to any reason, surplus agricultural goods producing countries stop the supply of their products to them. Argument based answer would be helpful to understand the issue under consideration.

Extension agencies are advocating a farmer to produce and sell his farm produce at his own level. Is it possible? Or some one else should purchase from him and sell.

Agriculture is likely to change significantly in the future. Key determinants of agricultural change include factors such as climate change, including the progressive process of global warming. On the one hand, the main negative effects of the progressive global warming process include increasingly frequent and severe periods of heat and drought. In addition, by the end of this 21st century, all glaciers will have melted, water levels in the seas and oceans will have risen, and areas of arable land will have declined. On the other hand, in order to slow down the progressive process of global warming, it is necessary to urgently reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions, including CO2 and methane. Climate change will cause a reduction in the scale of agricultural crop production. In order to feed the population, it will therefore be necessary to change dietary habits by switching agricultural crops to the production of plant-based agricultural crops to produce food primarily for humans rather than livestock. At present, globally, three quarters of arable land is used for the production of arable crops, from which fodder is produced to feed reared livestock. In addition to this, due to increasing global warming processes, it will be necessary to develop new crop varieties that are resistant to various biotic (viral, bacterial, fungal diseases, pests, etc.) and abiotic (droughts, heat, floods and other effects of climate change) negative environmental factors. In addition to this, the importance of achieving sustainability goals in agriculture will increase in the future. The generation of energy used in agriculture from renewable and emission-free energy sources will increase in importance. Consequently, environmentally neutral, emission-free, sustainable organic farming based mainly on crop production using new crop varieties that are resistant to progressive climate change and its effects will be developed in the future.

In view of the above, the following questions are becoming increasingly topical:

What do you think about this?

What is your opinion on this topic?

Please reply,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Greetings,

Dariusz

Can I just get some soil sample, add water, centrifuge and measure the pH?

How do people involved in agriculture and planting do to get the best pH? And, how can I correct it?

Can anyone help me out to know the Indian companies which can take agricultural land on lease for solar farming by means of ground mounted solar panels? I want to lease my agricultural land for solar farming which is located in Maharashtra state in India. Please suggest me the name of the companies who can help me out in this regard.

What is the best IoT platform you are using for your agriculture project to control some parameters?

Excessive use of chemicals in agriculture results in contamination of products with high levels of chemical residues.

Agriculture is known to provide various innovations from time -to -time , but in the process , we sometimes land in no man's land, and often try to take agriculture to backfoot so miserably in mad rush for improvement . Like that , there is one concept called Zero Budget Natural Farming , dont know , what is the base to advocate this concept, often under the garb of Organic Farming , though both are quite different concepts and work on entirely different premises. Here are some clarifications requested to our collagues for their responses :

* What is the working premise of zero budget natural farming ?

* What is the need of advocating such concept of farming amidst conventional farming?

* Are we not in a position to sustain the current trend of sustainability agriculture and need to bring such concept having hardly any scientific base?

* Has this concept been ever evaluated in a scientific and time frame manner?

* How do you see the future of zero budget farming ?

* Can it be conceptually sustainable?

Like that , you go on adding .....

Your repsonses, please....

Do humans who eat food prepared in a restaurant face a higher risk of contracting an illness than those who eat packaged food?

Dear RG members, I am aware about negative impact of hailstorm on agriculture. If anybody has any reference or experience on utility of hailstorm in agriculture field. please share here .

I am working on a study to evaluate the content radioactive isotopes in agricultural soil. I have the concentrations of Th232, U238, Cs137 and K40 and I want to know if the concentration is harmful for crops and humans or not.

For example, research studies concerning part-time farming were famous in 1980s and 90s. Then, this trend was faded and not many recent research studies are found.

Are the research studies in social science influenced by the topics of political importance?

Dear all,

The recent studies (including ours: https://1url.cz/rKhj9, https://1url.cz/WKhj8 and https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.36573.13288) highlight the importance of small farms and poultry yards (especially hens) as an important foraging site for some granivorous birds inhabiting countryside settlements. On the other hand, there are (anecdotal) observations of hens attacking and killing small passerines. Additionally, I expect competition for invertebrates, attracted to poultry-yard but eaten by hens, thus unavailable for wild birds.

I´m wondering if there is some published or even unpublished work/paper/observation of this interaction or other negative impacts of hens and poultry yards on wild birds.

Thank you.

I want to plan a research work on estimation of methane from crossbred cattle under organised farm with normal diet. Please suggest appropriate method

I am trying to design an agricultural and horticultural calendar for Karbi Anglong and Dima Hasao districts of Assam, India. What are the steps that I should begin with?

farmers ,agricultural sectors workers are always ignored ,although we are only because of them,what the reason behind this .....................

Which agricultural strategies were sustainable, both environmentally and economically, over the long term, and why?

Hi All,

I am working on classification of soils in agriculture fields. I am looking for the soil images data set to classify.

Could someone please suggest me where to find these data sets.

First of all there are a lot of statements describing the effect of climate change on agriculture like:

https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climate-impacts/climate-impacts-agriculture-and-food-supply_.htmlBut my personal opinion is different.

But it seems that agricultural as performed in today's manner change the landscape into a form which is unfavorable to act as an ecological balance factor.

See:

Justify your stand with convincing logic and scientific literature.

Could an extender for semen cryopreservation be completely organic, owing to the growing interest for organic agriculture and safety concerns?

Drones can also identify drier regions in a field and measures can then be taken to irrigate such regions with better techniques. Precision agriculture provides farmers with such concrete information that enables them to take informed decisions and utilize their resources more efficiently. Kindly give your valuable suggestions....!!!

Agricultural extension is the use of modern communication techniques instead of traditional agricultural extension

We work in groundwater dependent region. Agriculture has been the largest consumer of the groundwater. In order to manage the groundwater, we have to manage agricultural groundwater use. In order to manage agricultural groundwater use, we have to monitor the cropping pattern in the village. What is the most accurate and cost effective method to find out the village level cropping pattern (season wise acreage of each crop grown)?

Does remote sensing provide any solution?

Is physical survey the feasible solution? Or is there any other solution?

If you have conducted any such study, please share the publication.

Is technological progress in agriculture based on the application of scientific discoveries in the field of biotechnology, genetics, automation and robotics of field works, implementation of biodiversity principles and the creation of resistant to fungal, viral, bacterial and other cultivar diseases, etc. with the elimination of the use of chemical plant protection products will enable in the 21st century the development of sustainable environment-friendly agriculture, ie the kind of agriculture thanks to which healthy vegetables, fruits, grains free from pesticides and other chemical plant protection products and organic farming, ie non-polluting, are produced?

Please reply

Best wishes

Hello, I have yield data with coordinates and I would like to create a management zone map and plot it as well.

Thank you very much!

Martin Mittermayer

In his paper, Giller (2013) discusses the term "farming systems" and supports that "even the wealth of literature on farming systems research fails to give a clear definition". He concludes that "At the end of this analysis I have still failed to find a good definition of farming systems. I’m still searching!".

Well, I am also still searching for a widely accepted and good definition of a farming system.

How would you define a farming system?

Giller, K.E. 2013. Can We Define the Term ‘Farming Systems’? A Question of Scale. Outlook on Agriculture, 42, 149–153.

What kind of scientific research dominate in the field of Importance of agriculture in the context of the ongoing global warming process?

Please, provide your suggestions for a question, problem or research thesis in the issues: Importance of agriculture in the context of the ongoing global warming process.

Please reply.

I invite you to the discussion

Best wishes

Dear all, I am developing activated carbon from agricultural waste. I am facing problem in its washing. I used to wash my materials until the pH becomes neutral with distilled water, but it is taking more than 2 weeks to be neutral. Please suggest me,How can I wash activated carbon with less consumption of time.

Please i need help with an access to the pesticide data base by the Agriculture & Environment Research Unit

Agricultural extension has been the main source of information for small scale farmers but it has been faced with setbacks mainly due to past top down extension approaches and lack of adequate resources for field extension agents at the ground level. The extension system does not have updated and a modern mechanism to acquire and deliver information to farmers before it becomes obsolete.

So, Is it possible to integrate ICT in agricultural extension to enable producers, extension providers and other stakeholders to access updated information and become competitive.

As the land availability for conventional farming is decreasing, what percentage of worldwide farming is being done through soilless route (including hydroponics, aeroponics, aquaponics)?

Any literature highlighting the same will be helpful please.

How will agriculture look in the future? It seems that precision agriculture is gaining importance very quickly, especially in large-scale production. For example, the use of satellite images, remote sensing, drones, automated tractors, etc. is that the dominant trend in agriculture? Should we include these topics in the professional education? I would like to know your opinion or experience, thank you.

As we know COVID-19 caused many negative effects on the agricultural producers' in both of the inputs and outputs sides. Which simultaneously effected the food supply chain, food prices, food availability, and food security.

These effects are different between the countries and nations, because of many things.

According to your country situation, Please share "What are the negative effects of COVID-19 on the agricultural sector and food supply chain in your country?" in addition to "What is the response of the agricultural policy-maker did to overcome or reduce these negative effects on the agricultural sector and farmers? ".

I want to analyse of agricultural extension activities of wheat in Iran.

Agriculture is the major contributor to the national economy, livelihood and employment since long. However, despite the priority in the national policies, the growth of the agriculture sector is merely around 3% that is not able to contend increasing population growth.

I would love to know- What are the challenges and problems?

Can agriculture still lead the national economy?

Why many national policies and agricultural policies could not help farmers and the agriculture sector?

UAS is the emerging technology in the field of agriculture for precision application of inputs to enhance the crop productivity. Mostly, researcher are using UAS for spraying practices but how can we use UAS for accurate application of water in field.

We will be using the EGM-5 portable CO2 analyzer to make measurements once a week in three treatments. I am wondering what time of day is commonly used in agricultural soils in temperate regions... we are in New Brunswick, Canada.

Thanks,

Bryan

I´ve been looking at these 2 drugs with very similar structures and for some reason Sulfadimidine is widely used to treat infections in intensive farming, whereas it doesnt seem to be the case for Sulfamerazine.

The information I´ve found online suggests both drugs share the same mechanism and also share the same secondary effects.

I´m confused as to why I have not been able to find productors of sulfamerazine.

Any information regarding the differences between these two drugs is appreciated!

We aim to Measuring Transaction Costs (Ex Ante and Ex Post) in contractual relationship. While there exist various accepted methods for estimating these costs, what is the best method for measuring transaction costs in the case of contract farming? We will really appreciate if you can provide us some literature or provide some suggestions on Methodology for Measuring Transaction Costs : methods to estimate true costs ?

Interested to know about any recent research/white paper on Indian Hydroponic Farming industry.

Pre-emergent herbicides kill weeds before emergence from soil whereas Post-emergent ones eradicate weeds that have already emerged from soil.

What is better herbicide to use? pre-emergent or post-emergent herbicide?

Food security issues, organic farming, land degradation, soil infertility and water exhaustive crops, sustainable agriculture has become buzz words these days. The problem associated to green has negative impact on the ecosystem services of natural resources. Will the new policies on agriculture will fix the issue?

Hello all,

What recommendations do you have of books providing a strong survey of key issues impacting international agricultural development? I'm especially looking for something with a strong global outlook (many resources I'm finding are very USA-centric)? I have previously used Gordon Conway's One Billion Hungry, however, published in 2012, it is starting to show its age. What would you recommend?

Thanks,

Noel

70 percent intensified production of agricultural products is absorbed by the production of livestock, above all for the purpose of meat production.

If this production would be burdened with the costs of neutralization of harmful, negative effects of environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions generated by intensified meat production, then a correspondingly higher meat price would take into account the costs of repairing the mentioned negative externalities.

Then, a drop in meat consumption would generate a drop in the intensification of agricultural production. At that time, most of the agriculture could switch from intensified, productive agriculture to organic farming.

Generally healthier agricultural produce would be produced with a much smaller amount of applied chemistry, and overproduction of agricultural produce could be redirected to the poorest countries to eliminate the problem of hunger in Africa.

Do you agree with my opinion?

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In such cases, what is the validity of doing research on ancient agricultural practices like mixed cropping, natural farming etc?

Ozone used for insects, viruses, and other pests in agriculture

Please provide your opinion on vertical farming. Is it the future of agriculture? If yes, where is it most promising (areas, countries cities etc.)?

Dear Colleague,

We hope you and your loved ones are doing well and staying safe under these unprecedented circumstances. We are sure we all can fight this together and get back to our normal life soon.

Over the past few months, Dr. Singh and I have been working with Remote Sensing Journal ( Impact Factor: 4.118 (2018)) on a special issue entitled “Remote Sensing for Water Resources Assessment in Agriculture”.

We are serving as Guest Editors for this issue. This Special Issue invites high-quality and innovative scientific articles, which include innovative and cutting-edge research on the application of remote sensing techniques and data from any platform to the study of critical water-related issues in agriculture.

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Therefore, we cordially invite you to contribute original papers or review articles, if your area of interest lies towards the following topics or similar:

*Water resource assessment in agriculture;

*Role of satellite-based soil moisture in agriculture;

*Remote sensing and agricultural drought;

*Impact of agriculture on water quality;

*Hydrologic modeling and remote sensing to agricultural water resource management;

*Ground sensing and remote sensing of evapotranspiration;

*Precision agriculture;

*Computer application in agriculture;

*Big data analytics in agriculture;

*Multi- to hyperspectral sensing in agriculture;

*Impact of climate change on agriculture;

Would you let me know if you are interested? Although the deadline for submission of manuscripts to the Special Issue is 31 December 2021, I would appreciate hearing from you in the next few weeks whether you would be willing to submit a contribution.

Sincerely,

The Guest Editors

(Ram Ray and Sudhir Singh)

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Ram L Ray, Ph.D., P.E. Associate Professor College of Agriculture and Human Sciences Prairie View A&M University P.O. Box 519, MS 2008 Prairie View, TX 77446 📷