Knowledge flow systems are an essential component of Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS). A traditional view of a knowledge flow system would include research as a source of knowledge, extension and education as knowledge and information channels, and agricultural entrepreneurs...

Conventionally, agricultural resource management per se is not a popular area of research. Agricultural production research was crop and input specific. Earlier studies recommended fertilizer levels that maximize yields; or cropping patterns that maximize output and profits. Water was considered...

The fiber crops industry is one of the country's major pillars in employment generation and foreign exchange earnings. However, recent trade developments and local production problems in the fiber crops industry might affect its long-term sustainability and viability. The reduction of trade...

The coconut industry is one of the country's major pillars in employment generation and foreign exchange earnings. However, local production problems, the expansion in coconut hectarage of neighboring countries, and recent developments in biotechnology research on other competing crops that have...

Die Situation der Agrarfakultät wird in den letzten Jahren an allen betroffen Hochschulstandorten diskutiert. In seinem Gutachten fordert der Wissenschaftsrat stärkere Clusterbildungen, die Zukunft kleinerer Fakultäten wird in Frage gestellt. Der Fakultät für Agrarwissenschaften der...

The development of David Ricardo’s economic theory of distribution -the laws that determine the share of output between the economic classes -depended on specific connections at several levels between two practicalsciences of the early 19th century, namely experimental agriculture andpolitical...