Food consumption is inseparable from agricultural production and sales

There is an urgent need for innovative thinking and methods to make new attempts for experiential activities. The new design method of experiential activities has become the new educational significance of leisure agriculture.Therefore, this study will explore the new direction of leisure farm experience activity design from the perspective of leisure farm operators, analyze the …

Vegetables are negatively affected by the delay onset of rainfall

In the lower portion of Mt Isarog, the most affected crops are the vegetables and rice and these are caused by both pest infestations and scarcity of water. Both rice and vegetables are water dependent and would dry up when the water is scarce. In the upland area, rice decay because the variety of rice …

Cereal food production at the household level is one of the determinants of food availability

The western Sudan is also suffered from low soil fertility, especially in sandy soil. This type of soil has a higher requirement for water, mainly in the production of millet crops. Meanwhile, negative impacts and the adjustment of liberalization policies that hit the rural areas hard also influenced access to food for the majority of …

Many Buea farmers were not well informed on the management of pesticide spills

All pesticide residues should be immediately removed from the skin with soap and water when spills and leaks occur. The use of hand sprinkling makes the farmers more prone to spill the pesticide with resulting skin exposure and inhalation. Improved and affordable equipment are especially needed in tropical regions of Africa where many farmers do …

Some of the national figures are provided by the DSID

Yam is the sole crop that performs very well on a forest land or ondense wooded savanna newly converted to agriculture. Thus, the farmer starts the farm by cropping yam in the first year. The other food crops , and the cash crops, are cultivated either in the second, third,or forth year after the land …

Its analysis in water and farmed fish is an issue of public health and high economic relevance

The genus has been shown to be neither routinely investigated norconsidered under environmental and sanitary legislation.In fact,the bacterium may cause remarkable liabilities for fish farms and serious illnesses in humans. Liabilities are also associated with shelf time owing to the high concentrations of bacteria .Infection dose for Aeromonas in human beings has still to be …

Specific nutritional quality of wheat bread can be defined by a complex set of variables

Over the second half of the 20th century, plant breeding has developed varieties adapted to high input farming systems and industrial baking, resulting in the replacement of local varieties, which were potentially adapted to the specific soil and climate conditions of each region and had potentially good bread making properties .Recently, however, agricultural practices more …

The sustainability model based on the theory must seek a dialectical union of development and environment

The inter-linked matrix of operative factors contributing for the integrity of agro- ecology is indicated in Figure 1. Development in agricultural landscapes is becoming more pluralistic as policy planners, farmers, environmentalists, conservationists and consumers have variable perceptions on the sustain-ability. These perceptions and priorities range from eco-logical, agro-technological and socio-economic dimensions. Thus, increasing the limits …

Crop pollination by bees and other animals is an essential ecosystem service in Uganda

At the national scale, pollination services may have been estimated to be equivalent of >16% – 25% of the market value of agricultural production. Few small-scale coffee growers were selected and invited to short discussions of whether bees increase coffee yield or not. As previously highlighted, majority of these farmers said they do not think …

Good agricultural environmental health is fundamental to sustainable farming

It is important to collect such information since any management and technology that can be scaled-up to improve coffee production has to be implemented by small scale growers. There are many ecosystem services that are delivered in agricultural landscapes and pollination service is one of them. It may be difficult for farmers to invest in …