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Decision tree classification for crop type mapping using Landsat 8 optical satellite imagery
Presentation of Decision tree classification for crop type mapping using Landsat 8 optical satellite imagery
Improving Agricultural Extension Systems for Wider Adoption of Technologies: Project highlights and main objectives
This introduction on the project inception workshop summarizes the project highlights and main objectives of the project Designing effective Extension Service Delivery Systems for Enhancing Wider Adoption of Agricultural ...
Ecosystem Services: What they are, why they are important and how do we value and manage them
Our health and wellbeing depends upon the services provided by ecosystems and their components: water, soil, nutrients and organisms. Ecosystem services are the processes by which the environment produces resources utilized ...
Gender, Tenurial niches in the Kandeu informal irrigation scheme of Malawi and their implications for drought mitigation
The presentation addresses the issue of understanding the gendered tenurial niches in the informal irrigation in the Kandeu informal irrigation scheme of Malawi and
their implications for drought mitigation, presented by ...
Managing Scarce Water Resources in Irrigated Drylands of Central Asia
Central Asian farmers use the Soviet era-developed method of irrigation which divides the irrigated areas in Hydro Module Zones (HMZ). Each HMZ has a set of crop-specific recommendations for irrigation based on a) soil ...
Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment
The present work is an introduction to Life Cycle Assessment, a systematic method for analyzing environmental impacts of
products, processes, and services over their entire life cycles.
Suitability and Identification of Pulses in Cropping Systems for Nutritional Security, Better Livelihood and Mitigation for Climate Change: Need for on-farm experimentation and minimum datasets for modelling for out-scaling of the production system
The presentation introduced the following aspects: understanding the “state-of-the-art” on pulses in each Region in terms of opportunities and challenges, including existing policy environment; finalization on common ...
Can improved food legume varieties increase technical efficiency in crop production?
Faba bean (broad bean), field pea, and lentil are very important legumes in the highlands of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is the largest producer of faba bean in SSA. In 2012/13, about 4.4 million small holder farmers planted 574,000 ...
Performance Evaluation of Sprinkler Irrigation Systems
System Performance Evaluation (SPE): SPE is the analysis of certain measurements taken in the field while the system is operating under actual field conditions. It is analogues to human health checkup.
Breeding for post emergence herbicides in Cool season food legumes
Cool-season food legumes (faba bean, chickpea and lentils) are mostly grown in rainfed dryland systems,
because of many virtues such as high protein content, atmospheric nitrogen fixation, and low carbon and
water foot ...