Essays on Farm

The scale of autonomous driving is from 0 to 5, with level 0 being a car where a human must be in control all times and level 5 being where the car is equal to or exceeds the performance of a human driver. Autonomous Vehicles…

Precision agriculture provides very helpful tools to farming producers as they deal with the demands of offering food for an increasing population with decreasing land and resources. Smart farming utilizes data to improve production systems and includes technologies such as GPS supervised tractors, variable rate…

In Robert Leonard’s opinion piece “Trump Has No Idea What His Tariffs Have Unleashed for Farmers” Found in The New York Times, a story is built, one of apocalypse in the Midwest, not by drought, but by war. Not the average, send in the boys…

INTRODUCTION This chapter shows a review of literature related to the study which involves access to credit by small holder dairy farmers. It also shows the relationship between credit and sustainable dairy farming, the sources of credit for the smallholder dairy farmers and finally the…

Farming is considered one of the most important occupation in today’s world. Farmers are frequently not able to sell their items directly to the buyers and must go through the selling process from the wholesaler or merchants who purchase their crops or products at a…

Farm growth always comes with expenses growth. We presently have 5 female turkeys that have started laying. At their laying season early this year, we couldn’t get any chic from them as the major problem was most of them laying in the bush and rain…

INTRODUCTION Groundnut (Arachis hypogea) is the 13th most important food crop of the world (FAO, 2011). It is the world 4th most important source of vegetable protein. Groundnut seeds contain high quality edible oil (50%) easily digestible protein (25%) and carbohydrate (20%) groundnut is grown…

Pests are intrinsically drawn towards food following 20% food production losses during post-harvest practices, broadcast deadly diseases, nuisance, contamination of food and structural damage, all these factors making food industry more vulnerable leading towards proper pest management to meet increasing food demand day by day,…

Agriculture is one of the oldest industries used to sustain a growing population and according to most historians gave way to the rise of modern civilization. Nonetheless, without a proper water supply, crops are unable to utilize nutrients effectively and ultimately, cease to exist. Irrigation…

Over the centuries, there has been an undeniable symbiosis between urbanization and food production. Before the start of agricultural cultivation, it could be argued that there was no such thing as a city. The history of human settlement starts with the hunter gatherer bands setting…