Providing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to rural areas often involves a complex interplay among economic development, bureaucratic systems, technical training and support. Nowhere are these dynamics more pronounced than in China, where a wide range of economic and...

The development of sweet potato industry in Fuyang City takes on following characteristics: increase in planting area of specialized households and professional cooperatives; increase in production input and yield; constant optimization of planting varieties; diversified planting modes. Sweet...

Due to large-scale agricultural irrigation and industrial production, groundwater had been excessively employed to benefit the economy development and life improvement in Chikugo-Saga plain since the middle of last century, which led to many environmental problems such as land subsidence,...

For the purpose of fully understanding tempo-spatial water circulation in the rice growing region of Chikugo-Saga, Japan, an assessment model of paddy water demand at daily/monthly time and one-kilometer space scales was established by using agro-statistic data, land use and meteorological data...