Determinants of Poverty in Different Irrigation Schemes and Non-Irrigated Rice Based Farming System in Central Dry Zone Area of Myanmar

Amy Soe, Isabelita M. Pabuayon
ABSTRACT As Myanmar has a great potential to expand rice cultivation, the government has prioritized irrigation for rice cultivation since rice is the key crop in the agriculture and the main food item for Myanmar people. Irrigation has also great significance for the national economy. The total...
Country: Myanmar Topic: Rural development
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New Challenges for Food Security in Vietnam

Dao The Anh, Pham Cong Nghiep
ABSTRACT Food security is a great concern of the government in the current context. In the more than 30 years of renovation, Vietnam has achieved considerable successes in addressing the food security, poverty reduction, income, social stability, etc. The state policies have enormously...
Country: Vietnam Topic: Food security and safety
19,130
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Dilemma and Strategy of Thermochemical Biomass Power Generation Development in Taiwan

Keng-Tung Wu
INTRODUCTION Biomass energy (biofuels and waste) is currently the largest renewable energy source and the fourth largest primary energy supply in the world (International Energy Agency, 2019b). Defined by the Renewable Energy Development Act (Executive Yuan, 2019) in Taiwan, biomass energy (or...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Agricultural green economy & renewable energy
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Advances in Mungbean Breeding

Ramakrishnan Madhavan Nair
ABSTRACT Mungbean (Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek var. radiata), also known as green gram is an important warm season food legume crop, with major production in Asia. The crop is expanding to Sub Sahran Africa and other parts of the world due to its short crop duration (60 days) and due to the...
Country: Others Topic: Agricultural biotechnology
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543

The Soil-Borne Pathogen/Disease Problems and Management Strategies: The Indonesia Experience

Surono
ABSTRACT Soil-borne diseases are one of the factors that limit the productivity of agricultural crops in Indonesia. Soil-borne pathogens that predominantly attack various types of agricultural plants in Indonesia include Fusarium spp., Pythium spp., Phytophthora spp., Ralstonia solanacearum,...
Country: Indonesia Topic: Agricultural biotechnology
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