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Agriculture, Volume 5, Issue 1

March 2015 - 7 articles

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Articles (7)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,020 Views
23 Pages

18 March 2015

Health professionals play an important role in educating the public about food safety risks. However, the ways this important group of educators remains up-to-date on these topics are not well defined. In this study, a national sample of dietitians e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
29,133 Views
29 Pages

National Livestock Policy of Nepal: Needs and Opportunities

  • Upendra B. Pradhanang,
  • Soni M. Pradhanang,
  • Arhan Sthapit,
  • Nir Y. Krakauer,
  • Ajay Jha and
  • Tarendra Lakhankar

17 March 2015

This paper describes Nepal’s national livestock policies and considers how they can be improved to help meet the pressing national challenges of economic development, equity, poverty alleviation, gender mainstreaming, inclusion of marginalized and un...

  • Review
  • Open Access
121 Citations
35,169 Views
55 Pages

This review is a comprehensive introduction to pertinent aspects of the extraction methodology, chemistry, analysis and pharmacology of essential oils, whilst providing a background of general organic chemistry concepts to readers from non-chemistry...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,523 Views
18 Pages

4 February 2015

Biochar has altered plant yields and soil nutrient availability in tropical soils, but less research exists involving biochar additions to temperate cropping systems. Of the existing research, results vary based on soil texture, crop grown, and bioc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,594 Views
13 Pages

29 January 2015

The origin of agricultural products is gaining in appreciation while often hard to determine for various reasons. Geographical origin may be resolved using a combination of chemical and physical analytical technologies. In the present case of Lily of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
13,978 Views
15 Pages

Community Perspectives on the On-Farm Diversity of Six Major Cereals and Climate Change in Bhutan

  • Tirtha Bdr. Katwal,
  • Singay Dorji,
  • Rinchen Dorji,
  • Lhab Tshering,
  • Mahesh Ghimiray,
  • Ganesh B. Chhetri,
  • Tashi Yangzome Dorji and
  • Asta Maya Tamang

Subsistence Bhutanese farmers spread across different agro-ecological zones maintain large species and varietal diversity of different crops in their farm. However, no studies have been undertaken yet to assess why farmers conserve and maintain large...

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Agriculture - ISSN 2077-0472