Intercropping has a strong potential to counteract the severe degradation of arable land in North China Plain (NCP). However, rapid decline intercropping can be observed last decades. The present paper investigates reason for this development and suggests solutions on how adjust systems fit modern agriculture. Firstly, developments socioeconomic conditions farming were assessed, analyzing statistical yearbooks seven provinces Plain. Secondly, survey was conducted study region understand...

The extremely arid Aksu-Tarim Region (ATR) in northwestern China is one of the country's most important cotton production bases. However, recent years, negative ecological consequences intensive agricultural become apparent. Apart from degradation riparian vegetation, competition for scarce water resources among farmers tightens. To be able to develop solutions aggravating problems, and sustain ATR as a favored base, it decisive clearly understand land- water-use development its driving...

Abstract Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a recent innovation in precision agriculture technology. They being used wide range of agricultural practices, whereby pesticide application is one the most common uses UAVs China’s agriculture. However, economic effects have not been sufficiently investigated. To address gap, this paper propensity score matching to evaluate UAV adoption on outcome variables including revenue, costs, time spent application, and frequency based dataset covering...

Abstract Introduction Up till now, digitalisation in agriculture has almost only been discussed the context of large farms. However, sooner or later, ongoing will reach agricultural sector as a whole. Indeed, even smaller farms can also benefit from opportunity and make profitable use digital technology by adopting inter-farm organisational forms e.g. collaboration between farmers contractor services. This article seeks to gain better understanding transformation process validate relevant...

The extremely arid Tarim Basin in northwestern China is an important cotton and fruit production region. However, extensive agricultural land reclamation combined with unreasonable water use recent decades resulted degradation of ecosystems along the River. With declining availability, it becoming increasingly to utilize this essential resource more efficiently. Water pricing considered effective way advance allocation conservation. To identify whether a strong increase price may lead wiser...

China has not only successfully fed 20% of the world’s population using 9% arable land; it also become largest producer various agricultural products. The widespread application mineral fertilizers played a critical role in accomplishing this achievement. In study, we conducted an integrative analysis China’s over last six decades from multiple perspectives—domestic production, consumption and international trade at national levels, use regional level. addition, quantitatively estimated...

The global consumer food waste (FW) estimates are mainly based on modeling data obtained from governments. However, a major gap exists in FW at the household level, especially developing countries. Meanwhile, reliability of existing is questionable. This study aimed to quantify wheat bread (HBW) Shiraz, Iran, and cross-examine governmental HBW data. Face-to-face recall questionnaire interviews were conducted 419 households December 2018 August 2019. A multistage sampling strategy consisting...

Water pricing is regarded as the most important and simplest economic instrument to encourage more efficient use of irrigation water in crop production. In extremely water-scarce Tarim River basin northwest China, improving efficiency has high relevance for research policy. A Bayesian network modeling approach was applied, which especially suitable under data-scarce conditions complex geo-hydrological, socioeconomic, institutional settings study region, it allows integration data from...

Modern agriculture heavily depends on energy consumption, especially fossil energy, but intensive input increases the production cost for producers and results in environmental pollution. Organic agricultural is considered a more sustainable system, there lack of scientific research consumption between organic conventional systems China. The analysis comparison use two would help decision-makers to establish economic, effective efficient production. Thus, objectives present study are analyze...

As the major labor force has shifted from rural areas to cities, shortages in agricultural production have resulted. In context of technical progress impact, and depending on farm resource endowments, farmers will choose effective saving technology such as machinery substitute for missing manual labor. The reasons behind farmers’ adoption are worth exploring. Therefore, this study uses 4165 Chinese maize target group. Multivariate probit models were performed identify factors that affect...

Improving the sustainability of dairy food chain requires a simultaneous improvement in global and local environmental performance, as well economic performance farms. We investigated effect different structural, farm management, socio-demographic, technological natural-environment-related factors on dairying. Our analysis relied case study 56 Swiss alpine observations, for which cradle-to-farm gate life cycle assessments accountancy data were combined. The refer to years 2006 2008. selected...

Current household food waste (HFW) reduction plans usually focus on raising consumer awareness, which is essential but insufficient because HFW predominantly attributed to unconscious behavioral factors that vary across groups. Therefore, identifying such crucial for predicting levels and establishing effective plans. This study explored the role of dietary patterns (DP) socioeconomic status (SES) as predictors HBW using linear non-linear regression models. Questionnaire interviews were...

The safety of camel milk was assessed along the value chain in Erer, eastern Ethiopia. A total 24 samples were aseptically collected from producers Erer (n=12), and wholesalers retailers (n=12) chain. Milk quality parameters analyzed following standard procedures. mean (±SD) bacteria (TBC), Enterobacteriaceae (EC), coliform (CC), spore-forming (SFBC) yeast mould (YMC) counts 5.2 ± 1.90, 3.2 2.30, 2.9 2.27, 2.1 2.41 2.7 1.61 log10 cfu mL-1, respectively. TBC, EC, CC SFBC obtained final...