Transport and environmental risks of perfluoroalkyl acids in a large irrigation and drainage system for agricultural production

Off-mound excavations at a residential group near the site of Dos Hombres, Belize have revealed a series of unusual modifications to the limestone bedrock. The primary purpose of these modifications appears to have been to facilitate drainage of excess surface and subsurface moisture during periods of heavy rain. By utilizing a variation of lithic mulching in the soil, however, the Maya also may have been able to slow the loss of moisture through evaporation during lengthy dry periods. We suggest that these finds reflect soil and water management in house-lot gardening, and that these measures were necessary to overcome localized geologic, pedologic, and regional climatologic conditions. The use of such a drainage system together with gravel fill at the household level is previously unreported in the Maya Lowlands, and represents an important line of inquiry into gardens as ancient agricultural production systems.

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INTELLIGENT SOLUTIONS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MODERN BALING MACHINES

OF THE VIII INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE «INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION» («ITSE 2020» CONFERENCE) ◽

10.23947/itno.2020.208-212 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

I.V. Kokunova ◽

Keyword(s):

Working Conditions ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Environmental Risks ◽

Electronic Systems ◽

Feed Production ◽

Machine Operators ◽

Forage Harvester

The article shows the role of digital machine technologies used in feed production. The analysis of intelligent solutions used in the designs of modern balers from the world's leading manufacturers of agricultural machinery is carried out. It is noted that electronic systems not only perform information functions during the operation of forage harvesters, but also provide control over the operation of both individual assemblies and systems of balers, and the entire machine-tractor unit. Digital technologies make it possible to optimize the operation of the forage harvester, improve the quality of harvested forage, reduce environmental risks, improve the working conditions of machine operators, as well as increase the attractiveness and prestige of agricultural professions, and attract promising young personnel to agricultural production.

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Suburban Environment. East Naples Historical Transformations and Sustainability

Global Environment ◽

10.3197/ge.2020.130205 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 338-367

Author(s):

Valerio Caruso

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Environmental Risks ◽

Contemporary History ◽

Industrial Activities ◽

Parallel Processes ◽

History Of ◽

Residential Sprawl ◽

Late Modern

This article retraces the late modern and contemporary history of East Naples through its environmental transformations. By the end of the eighteenth century, this marshy rural/suburban area hosted small urban agglomerations and many proto-industrial activities, deeply intertwined with agricultural production. During the nineteenth century, the area experienced its deepest transformations as a result of the three parallel processes of drainage, urbanisation and industrialisation. On the threshold of the twentieth century, East Naples became an industrial suburb, home to an uncontrollable residential sprawl interspersed with factories. This inchoate suburban mix has determined the area's unsustainability, leading to those hygienic deficits, environmental risks and economic and social complications that have plagued it to this day.

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ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS OF HEAVY METAL POLLUTION OF THE SOILS AROUND KAJARAN TOWN, ARMENIA

Proceedings of the YSU B: Chemical and Biological Sciences ◽

10.46991/pysu:b/2015.49.2.050 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 49 (2 (237)) ◽

pp. 50-55

Author(s):

G.A. Gevorgyan ◽

H.S. Movsesyan ◽

K.V. Grigoryan ◽

K.A. Ghazaryan

Keyword(s):

Heavy Metals ◽

Heavy Metal ◽

Metal Pollution ◽

Heavy Metal Pollution ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Environmental Risks ◽

Combine Activity ◽

Mining Complex

The present study was aimed in assessing the heavy metal pollution of the soils around Kajaran Town, Armenia and related environmental risks. The investigations showed that the soils around the mining complex near Kajaran Town were highly polluted with heavy metals (Mo, Cu, Pb, As, Zn, Ni) and this was conditioned by Zangezur copper and molybdenum combine activity. Such heavy metal pollution degree in the soils may pose risks to agricultural production and the health of population especially children in this territory.

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Watershed-Scale Economic and Environmental Tradeoffs Incorporating Risks: A Target MOTAD Approach

Agricultural and Resource Economics Review ◽

10.1017/s1068280500006547 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 231-240 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Zeyuan Qiu ◽

Tony Prato ◽

Michael Kaylen

Keyword(s):

Environmental Risk ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Nitrogen Concentration ◽

Risk Preference ◽

Farming Systems ◽

Environmental Risks ◽

Random Allocation ◽

Watershed Scale ◽

Storm Events ◽

Creek Watershed

This paper evaluates the economic and environmental tradeoffs at watershed scale by incorporating both economic and environmental risks in agricultural production. The Target MOTAD model is modified by imposing a probability-constrained objective function to capture the yield uncertainty caused by random allocation of farming systems to soil types and by introducing environmental targets to incorporate environmental risk due to random storm events. This framework is used to determine the tradeoff frontier between watershed net return and sediment yield and nitrogen concentration in runoff in Goodwater Creek watershed, Missouri. The frontier is significantly affected by environmental risk preference.

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Sustainable Management of Environmental Risks in Agricultural Production: Ensuring the Right to Food

Global Jurist ◽

10.1515/gj-2021-0086 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Jorge Freddy Milian Gómez ◽

Yanelys Delgado Triana

Keyword(s):

Environmental Risk ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Sustainable Management ◽

Environmental Risks ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Food Material ◽

Right To Food ◽

Adequate Food ◽

Management Concepts ◽

The Right

Abstract The current research is about the sustainable management of environmental risks in agricultural production to ensure the right to food. In a globalized world, agricultural production is determined by external economic, environmental, social, legal, and political factors, as well as internal factors depending on each State’s conditions. Environmental risk factors, particularly, the growing climate change and its negative effects or the occurrence of a global pandemic, restrict agricultural industry development and create uncertainty in guaranteeing people’s right to food. Agricultural production is the first right to food material guarantee. Ensuring agricultural production is ensuring people’s right to food, their food security or at least the minimum necessary to avoid hunger. The aim is to systematize environmental risks sustainable management concepts and characteristics applied in agricultural production to guarantee the right to food. The environmental risk’s sustainable management entails an efficient use of financial and economic resources in agricultural production to prevent or reduce the environmental risk identified impact. The research establishes some general points of environmental risks sustainable management in agricultural production to guarantee the right to adequate food. The following research methods and techniques were selected: the theoretical-legal and document analysis.

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The ecological status of drained soils of the subtaiga zone of the Omsk region

Melioration and Water Management ◽

10.32962/0235-2524-2019-6-19-24 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 19-24

Author(s):

Vasiliy Boyko ◽

Artem Timohin

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Production ◽

Ecological Status ◽

Drainage System ◽

High Fertility ◽

Peat Soils ◽

Drainage Systems ◽

Water Extracts ◽

Satisfactory Condition ◽

Agrochemical Properties

The article presents the results of a study of the cationicanionic composition of water extracts, the agrochemical properties of soils of the Kotovschikovsky drainage system in the Znamensky district of the Omsk Region. The analysis of fertility indicators of reclaimed lands revealed their satisfactory condition. Restoration and reconstruction of drainage systems is the basis for increasing agricultural production in the northern districts of the Omsk region, the peat soils of which have relatively high fertility.

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How do pesticides affect bats? – A brief review of recent publications

Brazilian Journal of Biology ◽

10.1590/1519-6984.225330 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

J. M. Oliveira ◽

A. L. F. Destro ◽

M. B. Freitas ◽

L. L. Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Production ◽

Food Habits ◽

Forest Ecosystems ◽

Population Control ◽

Environmental Pollutants ◽

Environmental Risks ◽

Toxicological Effects ◽

Behavior Development ◽

Skin Contact ◽

Pesticides Exposure

Abstract Increased agricultural production has been increased use of pesticides worldwide, which poses a threat to both human and environmental health. Recent studies suggest that several non-target organisms, from bees to mammals, show a wide variety of toxic effects of pesticides exposure, including impaired behavior, development and reproduction. Among mammals, bats are usually a neglected taxon among ecotoxicological studies, although they play important ecological and economical roles in forest ecosystems and agriculture through to seed dispersal and insect population control. Considering their wide variety of food habits, bats are exposed to environmental pollutants through food or water contamination, or through direct skin contact in their roosting areas. In order to better understand the risk posed by pesticides to bats populations, we compiled studies that investigated the main toxicological effects of pesticides in bats, aiming at contributing to discussion about the environmental risks associated with the use of pesticides.

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Evolution of the Materials and Methods Used for Subsurface Drainage of Agricultural Lands from Antiquity to the Present

Water ◽

10.3390/w12061767 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (6) ◽

pp. 1767 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stavros I. Yannopoulos ◽

Mark E. Grismer ◽

Khaled M. Bali ◽

Andreas N. Angelakis

Keyword(s):

Agricultural Production ◽

Crop Yields ◽

Drainage System ◽

Implementation Process ◽

Subsurface Drainage ◽

Agricultural Drainage ◽

Land Productivity ◽

Technological Advances ◽

Poorly Drained Soils ◽

Over Time

Agricultural drainage plays an important role worldwide in food production and conservation of soil resources, while safeguarding investments in agricultural production and irrigation projects. It can improve crop yields and land productivity, especially on poorly drained soils and in cases of prolonged waterlogging. Both the subsurface drainage materials and the installation techniques used have a long history dating to prehistoric times. Over time, new subsurface drainage materials, installation techniques and modernized equipment were being developed continuously to take advantage of technological advances provided through research and development, while the planning and organization of the implementation process were improved. Today’s new materials and improved installation methods can offer solutions to problems still unsolved, while sometimes creating new ones. This paper considers the evolution of basic subsurface drainage materials and their installation techniques as they developed and adapted over time as well as possible future trends in drainage system design and application.

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Penilaian Kebutuhan Petani atas Prasarana Usaha Tani pada Hamparan Sawah Beririgasi

Agrokreatif Jurnal Ilmiah Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat ◽

10.29244/agrokreatif.1.1.75-79 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 75

Author(s):

Mohamad Yanuar Jawardi Purwanto

Keyword(s):

Paddy Field ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Group Discussion ◽

National Level ◽

Drainage System ◽

Paddy Fields ◽

Irrigation Canal ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Irrigation Pipes ◽

Irrigation Infrastructure

<pre>The reliable paddy field infrastructure required to boost agricultural production needs. These requirements should be planned as an opportunity increasing farmer’s income to alleviate poverty and to achieve food security in national level. Farm infrastructure covers farm road, irrigation, and drainage in the existing irrigated paddy field. The existing farm infrastructure only have limited farm road, unstable irrigation canal, and without proper drainage system. For the sustainability of irrigated existence of paddy field infrastructure the needs and level of technology needed to consider the farmers opinion, so they can improve the existing agricultural infrastructure. The purpose of this activity are to reviewing the farmers perceptions about the needs of farmers irrigation infrastructure on paddy field with the way do focus group discussion (FGD). By conducting FGD in the irrigated paddy fields, farmers in Cianjur agree to adopt facilities of farm infrastructure. The results showed that farmers need farm roads, irrigation pipes, and the arrangement of paddy fields to be more organized and easier to do activity of farming. To infrastructure development of farming, the farmers agreed to build farm roads by utilizing the existing chanel kuarter and changing the ground channels of quarter with irrigation pipes.</pre><p> </p>

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