This study evaluated the effectiveness of four Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approaches in the control of Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel) [Diptera: Tephritidae] and Ceratitis cosyra (Walker) [Diptera: Tephritidae] dur...
Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) is an incentive-based program established in Canada to pay farmers for their voluntary delivery of ecosystem services (ES). All seven ALUS programs across the country were examined...
Agriculture under changing climate scenario is facing major challenges of water scarcity and resource imbalances.Crop water productivity(WP)may act as an indicator of crop responses to water limitation.Organic amendme...
National Key Research and Development Plan,No.2016YFC0401403;National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.41877169
From a critical zone perspective, the present paper aims to present the magnitude of groundwater recharge under different agricultural land-use types, reveal the process of water and solute transport in thick vadose z...
Sufficient food production for a growing human population has become an issue of global concern. Almost all of the world’s fertile land is currently in use and arable land areas cannot be expanded significantly. The ...
a project“Participatory Plant Breeding and Strengthening Local Seed System in Kashmir Valley”funded by Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojana(RKVY,SKAGR-RKVY-1),India
In mountain agriculture, early maturity, high grain yield and high biomass are generally considered as farmer preferred traits in rice crop in addition to a multiple set of traits collectively responsible for variety ...
financial supports from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41675115);the National Key Research and Development Programof China (2017YFD 0300301, 2017YFD0200106);the Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
Climate change will place agro-ecological systems and food security at serious risk. At the 21 st Conference of the Parties(COP21) in Paris in December of 2015, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ...
The European Union (EU) Wild Birds Directive recognises that the most serious threats to wild birds' conservation in Europe are habitat loss and degradation, and hence, habitats of threatened and migratory species ...
The greatest challenge for tropical agriculture is land degradation and reduction in soil fertility for sustainable crop and livestock production.Associated problems include soil erosion,nutrient mining,competition fo...
The objectives of the study were as follows: 1) to evaluate the GxExM for wheat genotypes;2) to predict yield performance and identify high stable wheat genotypes in different management practices;and 3) to make genot...