Biodiversity Maintained by the Traditional Tea-Grass Integrated System in Shizuoka, Japan

Yoshinobu Kusumoto
ABSTRACT In Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, farmers traditionally cover furrows in green-tea fields with grass (mainly Miscanthus sinensis and Pleioblastus chino) in the autumn and winter seasons. The semi natural grasslands from where this grass is collected are called Chagusaba. The results of...
Country: Japan Topic: Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
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Evaluating the Benefit of Practice for Satoyama Initiative by Applying Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Chi-Ling Chen, Jenn-Kuo Tsai, Szu-Yang Wu, Ru-Hong Lin, Wei-Tin Huang
ABSTRACT Labor intensive and periodical investigations are essentially required in the past for the evaluation of services and functions of ecosystem and its change, which resulted in much labor and time consumption with very limited frequencies. Currently, with rapid development of Information...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
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Development of Web-Based Decision Support System for Paddy Planting Management in Tanjung Karang, Malaysia

C. Y. N. Norasma, A. R. M. Shariff
ABSTRACT Precision farming or precision agriculture is a holistic system to manage the agriculture by integrating several technologies to monitor the field in an accurate way. It is also known as 3R, right Input, right location and right time. Rice has been planted widely in Malaysia. It is a...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Agricultural science policies
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Drone Applications for Precision Agriculture and Paddy Field Management

Nobusuke Iwasaki, Naoki Ishitsuka, Toshihiro Sakamoto
ABSTRACT Drone-related technologies have evolved rapidly in recent years. Since the flight performance of consumer drones has improved and become cheaper, these technologies have been widely applied to agriculture studies. For instance, drone-based remote sensing has enabled the frequent...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural science policies
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Soil Nutrient Estimation and Mapping for Precision Farming of Paddy in Malaysia

Siti Noor Aliah Baharom, Theeba Manickam, Muhammad Zamir Abdul Rasid, Badril Hisham Abu Bakar, Jusnaini Muslimin, Mohd Zamri Khairi, Ramlan Ismail, Norziana Zin Zawawi
ABSTRACT In precision farming, collection of information on spatial and temporal soil variability at high sampling resolution is essential for making precision agronomic decision based on maps such as the one for location-specific fertilizer application. This is to ensure the farmer potential to...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Agricultural science policies
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