2023 February - 285 articles
There are some problems in the shifting process of hydraulic CVT, such as irregularity, low stability and high failure rate. In this paper, the BP neural network and convolutional neural network are used for fault diagnosis of the HMCVT hydraulic sys...
The development of food estates, including peatland ecosystems, is expected to support food security in all regions equally. Technically, the widespread clearing of peatlands for cultivating a specific food crop has multiple environmental effects. Th...
Biosurveillance defines the process of gathering, integrating, interpreting, and communicating essential information related to all-hazards threats or disease activity affecting human, animal, or plant health to achieve early detection and warning, c...
Pressurized sand media filters are commonly used in drip irrigation systems to prevent emitter clogging. However, the performance of these filters may be improved with more information about the retention of solids at different bed depths under diffe...
The Szekler horse was a small-sized mountain horse of the Carpathian Mountains whose official stud book ceased to exist after WWII. Despite that, individual horses preserving all the characteristics of the Szekler horse remained scattered in remote a...
African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is a bulk feeder of nutrients. In this study, we aimed at devising strategies for efficient nutrient management in the oil palm plantations of the Krishna River basin located in Andhra Pradesh, India by asse...
Farmers and ranchers depend on annual forage production for grassland livestock enterprises. Many regression and machine learning (ML) prediction models have been developed to understand the seasonal variability in grass and forage production, improv...
The purpose of this study is to test the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between the Big Five personality traits of agriculture and food science senior students and their entrepreneurial intention. For this purpose, the study employed...
Waste from apple juice and cider industries (pomace) compares poorly against spent grains and other relatively high-nutrient wastes as a substrate for bioconversion by the black soldier fly (BSF: Hermetia illucens). However, global pomace production...
Banana peel (BP) has potent antioxidative properties; however, the anti-inflammatory potential of BP and its related bioactive components remain unclear. This study used solvent extraction and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS)...
Adoption and implementation of business planning and control methods is essential to efficiently and effectively allocate resources for producing food within sustainable agricultural systems in the Mediterranean Basin. To investigate this issue, an a...
Background: The prevalence of obesity is increasing dramatically worldwide. Obesity injuries have been linked to the alteration of many health biomarkers in humans. Consuming a 2.5:1 ratio of omega-6 and omega-3 helps to restore standard health bioma...
Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca (Xfp) infects olive trees and other hosts in Southern Apulia (Italy), devastating agriculture and landscape. A containment strategy of the disease requires quick and sensitive detection tools. Therefore, a colorimetric...
The quince (Cydonia oblonga Mill.), due to its valuable bioactive properties and high health-promoting potential, is becoming more and more popular for the prevention of many free radical diseases. Due to the high hardness of the flesh and its bitter...
Soil erosion is one of the most significant factors in the degradation of agricultural land, because it causes soil particles to be displaced, transported and deposited in different places through the actions of water or wind [...]
Ex situ preservation is an important method in the preservation of chickens, and cryopreservation of semen is the only method for gamete preservation at present. During the last two decades, many studies have been performed to develop standard chicke...
Increasing shoot branch numbers of Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat cv. Hangbaiju (Hangbaiju) is crucial for producing high flower yields. Pot experiments were designed to evaluate the effects of foliar application of 6-benzylaminopurine (6-BA) combine...
Hydroponic sweet basil (O. basilicum L.) farming uses a recirculating nutrient solution that may spread waterborne microbial contamination including algae. Plasma, the fourth state of matter, generates antimicrobial reactive oxygen and nitrogen speci...
Bagworms, particularly Metisa plana Walker (Lepidoptera: Psychidae), are one of the most destructive leaf-eating pests, especially in oil palm plantations, causing severe defoliation which reduces yield. Due to the delayed control of the bagworm popu...
This paper summarizes the spatial–temporal characteristics of China’s rural energy carbon emission efficiency and then uses the Tobit model to explore its influencing factors. The results show that the rural energy carbon emission efficie...
The article presents the results of a three-year study, which analyzed agronomic management in the production of winter oilseed rape (WOSR) in different tillage systems. The effects of weed control and growth regulation in fall on the number of roset...
Heat stress seriously affects the production of cool-season food legume crops such as garden peas. Seed priming is a widely used technique that increases germination and improves plant growth and development, resulting in better field performance and...
Coffee is considered one of the most important commercial commodities globally, and in 2020, it moved to a global market of USD 102.02 billion. However, the attack of pests in coffee production can cause significant economic losses. Leucoptera coffee...
Accurate prediction of orchard evapotranspiration (ET) can optimize orchard water management. Based on the jujube (Zizyphus jujuba), ET was continuously measured from 2016 to 2019 using a large weighing lysimeter; the actual jujube ET was compared wi...
Sensor-enabled big data and artificial intelligence platforms have the potential to address global socio-economic trends related to the livestock production sector through advances in the digitization of precision livestock farming. The increased int...
A field demonstration and pot experiments were implemented to assess the effect of paraquat, oxadiazon, and oxyfluorfen herbicides in controlling selected populations of fleabane Conyza bonariensis (L.), grown in the central valley of Jordan. Conyza...
Interest in white lupine has increased in recent years in animal nutrition due to its balanced protein and lipid content, phytochemical compounds, and low alkaloid content. Agronomic traits, nutrients, and antioxidant phenols of six white lupin genot...
Several strategies have been proposed recently to reduce the accumulated harmful circumstances of intensive conventional farming practices. The adoption of conservation soil tillage and organic fertilization techniques could contribute to achieving t...
Parsnip fermented juice (PFJ) and hawthorn extract (HE) were identified as natural nitrite and antioxidant sources for pork mince. This study aimed to determine the effects of varying levels of HE added to a constant concentration of PFJ on lipids st...
Grain Amaranth is the most promising C4 dicotyledonous pseudocereal and is distributed globally. It has an excellent nutritional profile and adaptability against a broad range of environmental factors. These traits have renewed the interest of resear...
The aerial atomizer is the most essential component of the plant protection UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle). However, the structural optimization of existing aerial atomizers lacks comprehensive consideration of spray parameters and structural paramete...
Extreme abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, and temperature reduce crop productivity significantly and pose a serious threat to the area of land used for agriculture. Therefore, there is a pressing need to create crops that can thrive in thes...
A plant health clinic is a system in which under-resourced and smallholder farmers can access basic services of plant healthcare from a plant clinic in relation to infected or symptomatic plants and plant products for pest diagnostic and identificati...
The production performance and meat quality of the slow-growing hybrid Hubbard JA757 were monitored under conditions of diets differentiated by crude protein content. A total of 1200 as-hatched day-old chickens were equally and randomly allotted into...
The purpose of the current study was to determine the possible improvement in soybean plants’ tolerance against vanadium-induced stress in response to the application of olive solid waste (OSW) and selenium nanoparticles (Se-NPs), by assessing...
The objective of this research is to analyze the mediating role of Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) in the main Green Intellectual Capital (GIC) and Sustainable Performance (SP) relationship, as well as the moderating role of Green Agriculture (G...
To limit increasing air pollution and fossil- energy production, several environmental and climate agreements have been established globally. In addition, trade agreements could also serve to achieve climate-mitigation goals, through a trade policy w...
Accurate and automatic real-time recognition of shrimp with and without shells is the key to improve the efficiency of automatic peeling machines and reduce the labor cost. Existing methods cannot obtain excellent accuracy in the absence of target sa...
The aim of the current study was to investigate using a customized profit and carbon total merit index to identify sustainable milking cows and herd replacements within a commercial dairy herd. Balancing the economic, social and environmental aspects...
Weeds impose serious problems in maize (corn) production, resulting in reduced crop yields and lower profits for farmers. The adverse effects of weeds have been attributed to the competition with maize plants for light, water, and nutrients, which ca...
Spodoptera frugiperda is a pest of worldwide importance, responsible for significant economic losses, mainly in maize crops. The use of botanical derivatives emerges as a promising alternative to control this insect pest. In this work, we evaluated t...
Winter wheat is one of the most important crops globally and also in Hungary. Hungary has excellent crop production potential including seed production. The aim of our experiment is to determine the effects of different amounts and proportions of nut...
For rural communities in poor countries to develop, farmers need money to invest in their farms. However, with limited assets of their own and poor conditions for obtaining loans, the farmers’ operations suffer. This study explores how farmers&...
The practice of incorporating organic manures and fermented liquid biofertilizers of different origins and compositions can supply valuable nutrients to the soil. To ascertain the effect of fermented liquid organic nutrient formulations (FLONFs) on t...
In this opinion article we explore the link between regular wine consumption and human health, starting from the teachings that Alvise Cornaro, a Scholar at the University of Padova, left us, especially on his “La Vita Sobria”, a treatise...
Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element for humans and animals. Its necessity for plants is still under examination. Due to the contradictory nature of Se and its significance, it has received much interest in recent years. Se deficiency can be h...
More sustainable technologies in agriculture are important not only for increasing crop yields, but also for reducing the use of agrochemicals and improving energy efficiency. Recent advances rely on computer vision systems that differentiate between...
Climate change and its impacts on agricultural production and food security are a significant source of public concern around the world [...]
Bruchids are the most important pests of leguminous seeds in the world. In this study, the focus was done on Callosobruchus maculatus, a serious pest of Vigna unguiculata seeds. As no efficient control methods preventing collateral effects on benefic...
Tiller number (TN) is an important trait that contributes to yield in rice (Oryza sativa L.). A set of 76 chromosome segment substitution lines (CSSLs) derived from the super-hybrid cross between Zhonghui 9308 (ZH9308) and Xieqingzao B (XQZB) was use...
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