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Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractEffects of Converting Tropical Peat Swamp Forest into Oil Palm Plantation on Water QualitySeca Gandaseca, Noraini Rosli, Mohd Hanafi Idris et al.Peat swamp forest is a unique forest and wetlands ecosystem that recognized as one of the most important reservoir of biodiversity and water resources protection. Rapid development particularly for development, agriculture and plantation in peat swamp forest (PSF) area had given negative impacts to its ecosystem included degradation of its water quality. This study was conducted to determine water quality … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 12, Issue 8 · 3 Sep 2015 · 7,634 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractThe Role of Extension in Adopting Solar Energy in Rural Areas Case of Carbon Sequestration ProjectSeyed Jamal F. Hosseini, Zahra SoltaniAbstract: Problem statement: Solar energy as a renewable energy source is considered as an important alternative options for farmers. The development of renewable energy in rural areas faces several challenges. Agricultural extension by its nature has an important role in promoting the adoption of new technologies and innovations. Approach: The main focus of this study is to find out the … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 1 · 31 Jan 2011 · 8,272 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractGender Issue in Contract Farming: The Case of Malaysian StudentsHayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril, Jeffrey Lawrence D’Silva, Jegak Uli, Bahaman Abu SamahProblem statement: Agriculture has been proved to be a significant impetus for development in Malaysia. Agriculture offers a number of profitable activities, contract farming is one of it and it is still in infancy stage. Besides being a developed sector in Malaysia, it still has a number of problems to be solved. Gender issue is one of it. Gender issue … …American Journal of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2010 · 8,319 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractSynthesis and Characterization of Bio-based Polyurethane PolymersJahangir Emrani, Ramazan Benrashid, Shahrzad Mohtarami et al.This paper describes the development of new biobased Polyurethanes (PU) starting from swine manure bio-resin and diisocyanates. The bio-resin is produced from swine manure via a hydrothermal process. For sustainability, today, many PUs in new specialized applications, are biobased. In this study, different commercial diisocyanates including MDI, Desmodur W, Desmodur H and Demodur I and swine manure, which is an … …American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Vol. 11, Issue 4 · 28 Nov 2018 · 8,368 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the abstractNew Approach to Study Stimulating Effect of the Pre-Sowing Barley Seeds Treatment in the Electromagnetic FieldAliya S. Kasakova, Igor V. Yudaev, Michael G. Fedorishchenko et al.Improvement of the agricultural crops seeds quality with their pre-sowing treatment in the electromagnetic field and the subsequent increase in grain yield and studying the mechanisms of stimulating effects – all those are the important problems of science and practice of the crop-growing sector. The purpose of the presented research was to study the mechanism for increasing the germinating ability … …OnLine Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol. 18, Issue 2 · 4 May 2018 · 7,351 accessesView PDFCite