The spillover effect of direct competition between marketing cooperatives and private intermediaries: Evidence from the Thai rice value chain The spillover effect of direct competition between marketing cooperatives and private intermediaries: Evidence from the Thai rice value chain August 13, 2021 Our analysis suggests that farmers are better off selling their rice if they sell it in the...Read More
EasyIDP: A Python package for intermediate data processing in UAV-based plant phenotyping EasyIDP: A Python package for intermediate data processing in UAV-based plant phenotyping August 10, 2021 The objective of the proposed software package EasyIDP (easy intermediate data processor) is to address previously identified...Read More
Disentangling challenges to scaling alternate wetting and drying technology for rice cultivation: Distilling lessons from 20 years of experience in the Philippines Disentangling challenges to scaling alternate wetting and drying technology for rice cultivation: Distilling lessons from 20 years of experience in the Philippines August 3, 2021 The review’s findings point to the importance of rethinking the boundaries and assumptions of scaling theory of...Read More
Protein from renewable resources: mycoprotein production from agricultural residues Protein from renewable resources: mycoprotein production from agricultural residues July 29, 2021 Animal-sourced and plant-sourced proteins cause significant environmental concerns on climate change and arable land use and their...Read More
Rice Crop Manager spurs women and the youth to embrace digital technologies in Odisha Rice Crop Manager spurs women and the youth to embrace digital technologies in Odisha July 23, 2021 by Preeti Bharti, Deepti Saksena, Sheetal Sharma, and Ranjitha Puskur The Rice Crop Manager (RCM) has proven...Read More
From farm to plate and beyond: The need for ag-tech development in the Sri Lankan rice sector From farm to plate and beyond: The need for ag-tech development in the Sri Lankan rice sector July 19, 2021 Many believe that the rice-producing sector of Sri Lanka requires urgent transformation. The adoption of emerging technological...Read More
What drives consumer demand for packaged rice? Evidence from South and Southeast Asia What drives consumer demand for packaged rice? Evidence from South and Southeast Asia July 16, 2021 The demand for improved packaging, branding, and labeling of rice is expected to rise in Asia. Because...Read More
Influence of non-puddled transplanting and residues of previous mustard on rice Influence of non-puddled transplanting and residues of previous mustard on rice July 12, 2021 Most of the tillage operations for puddling soil in Bangladesh are done by power tiller which is...Read More
An impact of agronomic practices of sustainable rice-wheat crop intensification on food security, economic adaptability, and environmental mitigation across eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains An impact of agronomic practices of sustainable rice-wheat crop intensification on food security, economic adaptability, and environmental mitigation across eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains July 9, 2021 Most of the studies in EIGP were conducted on zero-tillage based on a single crop in rice-wheat...Read More
Using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Planet imagery to map crop type of smallholder farms Using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Planet imagery to map crop type of smallholder farms July 5, 2021 In this study, we used radial kernel support vector machine (SVM) to map the crop types of...Read More