ABSTRACT In order to improve the effect of agricultural data mining and statistics in the Internet era, based on data mining technology, this paper combines data mining technology with modern agricultural information to solve the problems of poor timeliness and incomplete information in the collection and sorting of agricultural information. Moreover, this paper makes innovations in time series representation

ABSTRACT Genetic diversity is key for breeding population development, hybrid breeding, heterotic grouping and genetic analysis, among others. The objective of this study was to examine genetic interrelationships among elite sorghum genotypes bred for resistance to Striga hermonthica Del. Benth and S. asiatica (L.) Kuntze and compatible with a biological control agent Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. strigae

ABSTRACT Increasing areas of agricultural land in high rainfall areas of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), where crop production used to be reliable, are affected by soil acidity. This review focuses on the extent, causes and effect of soil acidity on soil properties and crop yield and its management from the context of SSA. Studies showed that the detrimental effects of soil acidity can be mitigated through

ABSTRACT It is important to study the role and mechanism of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) on plants in arsenic-contaminated soil phytoremediation. In this paper, it was introduced that the ways of AMF acting on arsenic hyperaccumulator and non-hyperaccumulator were different; then the mechanism of AMF acting on plants was discussed from five aspects: (1) AMF improved the absorption of nutrients;

ABSTRACT Root nutrients are required for the growth and development of roots and shoots, which are closely related to soil quality and fruit productivity. In this study, trees of contrasting stand ages, including young, middle-aged, and old trees, were selected in field sites with common management practices in the navel orange (Citrus sinensis) orchards of Southern China. The fine root N decreased

ABSTRACT Root-knot nematodes (RKN) are highly damaging pests with broad host range causing crop yield loss of about 30% in susceptible crop varieties annually. Natural-based products for RKN management have gained a lot of interest due to the harmful effects of conventional chemical nematicides. Two Alltech Crop Science products, (ACS5075 and ACS3048), were evaluated against the RKN Meloidogyne javanica

ABSTRACT Chinese farming culture mostly starts from the angles of geography, history, sociology and folklore. However, there are relatively few systematic studies on farming culture from the perspective of landscape science, and the research direction mainly focuses on the concept, type, characteristics, function, and operation mode of farming culture. Under the background of the concept of agricultural

ABSTRACT Rice root exudates can control nitrification by releasing biological nitrification inhibitors (BNIs), reducing nitrogen losses in agricultural soils. However, the inhibitory effect on nitrification and the abundance of ammonia oxidisers in different soil types remain unclear. Two temperate paddy soils with different organic matter contents were collected to investigate the impact on nitrification

ABSTRACT Climate change will decrease precipitation in summer for Central Europe. Consequently, summer drought will affect crops, especially when sown late. Studies reported superior yields of triticale compared to wheat under suboptimal conditions like drought. The worldwide importance of triticale, however, is low and research on this crop is scarce. Therefore, a field experiment was conducted to

ABSTRACT Ecological architecture pursues the harmonious coexistence of natural ecology and built environment. Meanwhile, architectural planning theory, architectural technology, ecological theory, etc. are usually used in this process. The integration of multiple disciplines and the application of modern architectural technology will eventually organically combine ecology and architecture. This paper

ABSTRACT As reducing the energy consumption, as well as improving the quality of dried grain, is of great importance in the modern world, the present paper aims to develop an empirical-mathematical modelling approach for investigating the drying kinetics of cereals under variable heat supply. This approach is based on a stitching method and substantiates the layer height (or specific load) regulation

ABSTRACT This paper analyses the legal framework of Chinese-funded enterprises' agricultural investment under the background of big data. To analyses the policies even that contradictions with several entities and their problems were undertaken to choose the best judgements using a decision making support system in the context analysis of the big data approach. Under the conditions of the market economy

ABSTRACT In order to improve the effect of agricultural economic structure optimisation, this paper builds an agricultural economic structure optimisation analysis system based on factor analysis and intelligent algorithms, and uses a set of low-dimensional hidden factor vectors to describe the covariance matrix structure of high-dimensional observation vectors. Moreover, this paper combines the algorithm

ABSTRACT In plant production that produces high-value products, biostimulants are gaining more and more importance. Research hypothesis; biostimulants can contribute to the change of vitamin C content in edible potato tubers. This hypothesis was verified in a three-year field experiment. The effect of four variants of the use of biostimulators: BrownBio Gold (auxin and cytokinin), GreenOk (humic substances)

ABSTRACT Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] is the main food staple grain widely cultivated in sub-Sharan Africa including Uganda. There is a lack of current information on sorghum production constraints and varietal trait preferences in the major sorghum production areas in Uganda. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess the sorghum production constraints and farmer preferences for

ABSTRACT Background. Global soybean production is expected to double in the coming decades, driven by a request for animal feed to meet increasing meat consumption. Demand for locally produced food and feed is also increasing, making it interesting to explore the potential for soybean production in high-latitude regions. Scope. To present information on the potential for cultivating vegetable soybean

ABSTRACT Based on the concept of circular economy, this paper plans the agricultural production bases in the suburbs of the city, combines agricultural ecology to construct agricultural functional production bases suitable for current needs, and designs and plans the agricultural bases. Moreover, this paper uses the methods of field investigation, theoretical analysis and case design to conduct research

ABSTRACT In order to improve the effect of agricultural waste supervision and prevention and control of agricultural environmental pollution, under the concept of smart agriculture and circular economy, this paper builds a smart agricultural waste discharge supervision and prevention system based on big data technology. Moreover, this paper uses mathematical models such as the Environmental Kuznets

ABSTRACT In order to improve the management effect of agricultural sustainable development, this paper uses the Internet of Things technology and machine learning technology as the basis to study the agricultural sustainable development platform. Simultaneously, this paper studies the architecture of wireless sensor nodes and networks oriented to complex agricultural habitat conditions. Moreover, in

ABSTRACT In order to improve the harvesting efficiency of lodging crops, starting from the reel system, this paper combines intelligent image processing algorithms to identify the characteristics of lodging crops. Moreover, this paper optimises the data set, chooses L2 norm regularisation to reduce overfitting, uses exponential decay method to set learning rate, uses moving average model to speed up

ABSTRACT Intercropping (IC) can reduce nitrogen fertilizer requirements, supress weeds, and improve crop yields and yield stability. Three field trials were conducted in Denmark in 2018 with intercropping and sole crops (SC) using spring wheat, barley, faba bean and field pea to compare productivity under five fertilizer levels. The trials were carried out using in a split-plot design with four. Anomalous

ABSTRACT Biochar is a product rich in carbon, which improve the soil attributes and crop yield. In the Brazilian tropical dry region, common bean is cultivated under rainfed, in poor, acidic, and with low water retention soils. This work aims to evaluate the effect of biochar on soil physical and chemical attributes, on evapotranspiration (ET), water use efficiency (WUE), and on bean yield. The field

ABSTRACT Camelina (Camelina sativa [L.] Crtz.) is an oilseed crop of the Brassicaceae family. It represents revived crops, which was reintroduced to contribute in diversification of the used crops. Field trials were set in a total of five different locations across four years in which in Serbia (2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019) and in Austria (2016/2017). In all samples, 12 different environments

ABSTRACT The long-term application of chemical fertilisers in calcareous soil causes the stable P in soil to accumulate and not be effectively utilised. In this study, whether acidic compost tea (CT) could increase the available P in calcareous soil was evaluated through a pot experiment. The P forms of the samples were analysed using Hedley sequential P fractionation. CT had significant effects on

ABSTRACT The impact of Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L., CMV) incorporation on the nirK-denitrifying bacteria remains unknown. Here, the diversity and the composition of nirK-denitrifying bacterial communities in a double-rice paddy soil were estimated by using Illumina MiSeq sequencing under four fertilisation treatments: no fertilisation (CK), vetch incorporation (CMV), urea (N200) and combined

ABSTRACT Surface-dwelling beetles offer ecosystem services in agro-ecosystems including biological pest control and organic matter decomposition. This study was conducted to investigate beetle community response to six years of tillage, crop residue application, crop rotation and soil fertility amendments (low fertiliser, high fertiliser, manure, manure + low fertiliser and manure + 60 kg N ha−1) treatments

ABSTRACT In order to improve the reliability and scientificity of the path of agriculture sustainable development, guided by the concept of circular economy, this paper combines data mining technology to construct a path analysis system of agricultural sustainable development and establishes a one-dimensional discrete dynamic model of the interaction between the stock of renewable resources and the

ABSTRACT In vivo measurements of the optical properties of plant leaves, by spectrophotometric methods, could potentially provide very useful information for the assessment of the plant’s health. This paper describes a novel experimental set-up that enables continuous measurements of the optical reflection and transmission coefficients of broad-leaved plants. The optical spectral characteristics of

ABSTRACT Cowpea is an important food and nutritional security grain legume crop in the semi-arid regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Its production is limited by biotic factors including pre-harvest insect pests such as aphids. Aphids cause yield reductions, promotes the growth of sooty moulds, honeydew and as a result reduce photosynthetic processes and rates. Various methods have been deployed to try

ABSTRACT In the present study, weed plants viz., Calotropis procera, Ricinus communis, Lantana camara, Achyranthes aspera, Wedelia chinensis, and Colocasia esculenta were evaluated against Meloidogyne incognita affecting spinach. For in vitro egg masses hatching experiment, four different concentrations of aqueous extracts of weed leaves, i.e. 100%, 50%, 10%, and 1%, were analyzed. All the extracts

ABSTRACT Our study aimed to determine the effect on barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) of adding potassium polyacrylate to a sandy soil under normal watering condition and drought. We focused on morphological and physiological characteristics of barley and its rhizosphere bacterial community structure using Illumina Miseq sequencing. It was found that under normal watering condition (70% of soil water holding

ABSTRACT We studied the effects of Acacia albida on the growth and yield of wheat, maize, and teff with increasing distance from trees in Ethiopia in the 2014/2015 cropping season. The treatments comprised four radial distances of 1.5m, 3.5m, 5.5m, and 12.5m as a control away from the tree with three replications. Results showed that higher wheat yields were recorded at 5.5m and 3.5m than at 12.5m

ABSTRACT Most faba bean research is about protein content while less attention is paid to nutrient content. Thus, the purpose of this study was to assess the effect of sowing rate and variety on the nutrient content of faba beans. Five varieties were tested: Bauska, Gloria, Julia, Jõgeva, and Lielplatones. Two sowing rates were used: 30 seeds m−2 (100%) and 36 seeds m−2 (120%). The higher sowing rate

ABSTRACT In modern agriculture, plant-derived substances referred to as plant growth and development regulators or biostimulators are increasingly used. The aim of the research was the influence of the applied biostimulators on the concentration of glucosinolates in seeds of three morphotypes of winter oilseed rape. The research was carried out in three growing seasons at the University of Natural

ABSTRACT The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the epidemic of the Ebola virus, and currently the COVID-19 pandemic is an essential wake-up call for all countries to transform the approach to soil assessment and environmental management, and these diseases have proved how quickly a new virus can spread to every corner of the globe. With so many countries declaring the state of the emergency protocol due

ABSTRACT Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cucumerinum (FOC) is one of the most destructive pathogens in many cucumber-growing countries around the globe. There is still lack of high-resistant cucumber cultivars against this pathogen, and the use of fungicides is threatening the environmental conditions. However, biocontrol is an environment-friendly technique in plant protection. In this regard, the present

ABSTRACT Based on the coordination problem between Chinese rural supermarket chains and farmers’ consumption behaviour, this paper uses the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to construct the evaluation system of coordination between rural supermarket chains and farmers’ consumption behaviour. The results show that although the coordination degree between rural supermarket chains and farmers’ consumption

ABSTRACT The pathogen Erysiphe cruciferarum is an increasingly serious threat to cruciferous oilseed crops worldwide. In the present study, the severity of powdery mildew was evaluated on spring oilseed rape (Brassica napus) and five alternative oilseed crop species (B. juncea, B. nigra, Sinapis alba, Raphanus sativus, Eruca sativa). The main aim of the study was to identify plant species that are

ABSTRACT Taking the pertinent data from the 22 countries along the economic corridor of western and central Asia and China from 2012 to 2019 as the samples, the performance of international logistics of countries of western and central Asia was described and the impact of the performance of international logistics of countries along the economic corridor of western and central Asia on export of China's

ABSTRACT This study investigated the agronomic response and economic return of wheat grown in compacted and non-compacted soils to represent the conditions of non-controlled (non-CTF) and controlled traffic (CTF) systems, respectively. Yield-to-nitrogen responses were derived after application of urea, DMPP-treated urea, and UAN at rates between 0 and 300 kg ha−1 N. Soil properties were measured to

ABSTRACT Faba bean is susceptible to several leaf diseases caused by pathogenic fungi. With the increasing importance of faba bean in northern European cropping systems, the importance of its leaf diseases is likely to increase. The aim of this study was to discriminate the diseases and to test agronomic strategies for limiting their spread in a five-year experiment. Chocolate spot disease caused by

ABSTRACT Genotype-by-environment interaction (GEI) analysis is fundamental in crop improvement programmes to guide selection and for recommendation of high performing and stable genotypes for breeding or production. The objectives of this study were to quantify the GEI effects and determine grain yield stability among diverse pigeonpea genotypes to select candidate lines for breeding in Malawi. Eighty-one

ABSTRACT Nutrient leaf application is complementary to soybean nutritional management, mainly at maturity, when plants present high nutritional demand and high nutrients and photoassimilate translocation rates for seed production. The aim of this research was to evaluate the agronomic performance, physiological quality, and nutritional contents of soybean seeds after application of different rates

ABSTRACT Intercropping is commonly used in low-input systems but could also be a strategy for higher input systems. Three ratios of substitutive oat–pea intercrops were tested on a fertile soil in eastern Austria with application of a low nitrogen (N) fertiliser rate (6 g N m−2) versus an unfertilised control to assess the effect of intercropping and low N fertilisation on dinitrogen fixation (NFIX)

ABSTRACT In the present study, characterisation and quantitative microanalysis were identified for six expansive soils of which one is natural soil, i.e. black cotton (BC) soil and remaining soils were prepared by mixing of BC soil with different percentage of bentonite. The BC soil and prepared soil samples were characterised by the X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The

ABSTRACT Moko is a disease produced by the Ralstonia solanacearum philotype II race 2 bacteria, which has caused great economic losses and currently continues without adequate management. Therefore, the use of quantitative methods based on mathematical simulation models has gained importance in devising effective control programmes and interpreting epidemiological patterns. For this reason, appropriate

ABSTRACT In order to promote the coordinated development of various circulation entities and promote the economic benefits of the value chain, this paper firstly analyses the value-added mechanism of agricultural products circulation value chain from five aspects: primary processing creates form utility, cross regional transportation creates location utility, storage supply creates time utility, market

ABSTRACT In the context of the Internet, the agricultural product circulation standard system needs to undergo corresponding changes to adapt to the modern fast-paced social system. Based on the summary of domestic and foreign theoretical research, this paper adopts five methods including literature research, field investigation, case comparison analysis, model construction, qualitative and quantitative

ABSTRACT Nitrogen fertiliser application can effectively increase the net primary productivity (NPP) of agriculture and grassland ecosystems. There is some long-term retention of nitrogen applied to soils, but much is lost to runoff, to in situ denitrification and to gaseous forms of nitrogen (such as NH3 and NOX). So it is particularly important to improve nitrogen-use efficiency through various ways

ABSTRACT Technology agglomeration effect is the economic effect produced by the spatial concentration of industry and economic activities, and it is one of the key factors to enhance the industrial value chain. In recent years, China’s agricultural market has gradually opened up, speeding up the marketisation and commercialisation of agricultural products. However, due to the increasing competition

ABSTRACT Biochar, a carbon-rich material resulting from pyrolysation, is one of the proposed alternatives as a substrate component to peat. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different ratios of peat substitution with a locally available hardwood biochar on the chemical characteristics of growing media, seed germination, plant morphological and nutritional parameters of Tagetes

ABSTRACT Food production as global public goods depends upon many factors. This poses a risk to food safety as well as food prices. One of the most prominent factors that affects food production is climate change, which is mainly caused by carbon emissions. The knowledge of the impact of climate change on food production is important in terms of food policies and awareness regarding the issue. The

ABSTRACT Under the background of Internet technology, due to the uneven distribution of information, poor stability of various links, low product quality and standards, and immature development of cold chain logistics network, China’s agricultural products e-commerce omnichannel supply chain cannot match the diversified needs of consumers. Based on the background of Internet technology, on the basis

ABSTRACT Compared with other crops, peanut planting costs are lower, and it is very drought-tolerant, and can obtain better benefits. In this paper, 16 peanut varieties were selected, and drought resistance tests were carried out at the flowering and cutting stage under water stress conditions. The root characteristics related to drought resistance of peanuts and the physiological mechanism of drought

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to assess the extent of genetic diversity among and within tef populations collected from acid-affected soils in Ethiopia, and to test the cross-amplification of markers linked to Al-toxicity tolerance in other cereals. Forty-two tef genotypes were studied using 33 highly polymorphic SSRs. About 55% of the amplified putative alleles were effective in discriminating

ABSTRACT Haloxylon ammodendron and Nitraria roborowskii Kom are dominant groups characterised in Qaidam Basin. Elucidating the salt-tolerant mechanism of these two plants, which can grow successfully in this desert area affected by salinity and alkalinity, contributes to the protection and restoration of local vegetation. In this paper, seed germination feature responses in saline-alkali conditions

ABSTRACT This paper takes the field of e-commerce logistics service of agricultural products as the research object, and expounds on the research background and significance of this paper. Then, through the research and field investigation of the current situation of B2C enterprises, this paper expounds on the future development direction of the B2C industry, summarises the tools and theories that

ABSTRACT Field trials were conducted 2010–2012 in soybeans (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) to investigate cultivar choice, suitable seeding dates and row distances for cropping in Sweden. The cultivar trials showed that commercially available varieties of the 000-group can be used for cropping in Sweden. Yield typically amounted to 1500–2500 kg ha−1 of dry marketable seeds. Cultivars introduced to Sweden

ABSTRACT Agricultural product network marketing still has problems such as weak infrastructure, incomplete logistics system, and unremarkable product brand, and there is a little combination of basic theory and practice. In order to improve the marketing effect of agricultural products, based on the intelligent recommendation algorithm, this paper combines data mining technology to construct an intelligent

ABSTRACT The Pacific Alliance is an economic and development initiative where four Latin American nations: Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru, seek the growth in the economics of the four nations. It is in this way that agriculture plays an important role in this union since it is one of the greatest sources of income in each nation. However, the internal conflict that afflicts each country generates