scholarly journals Tagrinov: coping agroliteration during the covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 306 ◽  
pp. 03002
Author(s):  
Didu Wahyudi
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Face Mask ◽  
Technical Training ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Student Participant ◽  
Technical Advances ◽  
Agricultural Research And Development ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Agroliteration is a group learning space that teaches people how to use technology to be more efficient in their farming activities. The study’s goals were to find out: 1) agroliteration in the Agro Innovation Park (Taman Agro Inovasi/Tagrinov) before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2) redesign of Tagrinov agroliteration during the COVID-19 pandemic. Tagrinov, located in Bogor, Indonesia, is a showcase of technical advances in the concept of innovative garden utilization from the Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development of the Ministry of Agriculture. The study makes use of Tagrinov observational data on agroliteration from 2018 to 2020. This finding revealed that Tagrinov’s agroliteration participants during the COVID-19 pandemic exhibited the following characteristics:1) technical training participants: government employees (64.84%), farmer women’s group (32.28%), and students (2.88%), 2) education participants: students (97.25%), the community (1.96%), and members of the Indonesian People’s Representative Council (0.79%), and 3) internship and research activities participants: colleges (100%). During the COVID-19 pandemic, agroliteration was redesigned to focus on three things: the beginning of independent fundraising through paid services, student participant services via the internet of things (IoT), and non-student participant services via: limiting numbers, maintaining distance, and the imposition of a face mask.

Science, Technology, and Systems: A Hierarchy of Inquiry

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 452-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald M. Vietor ◽  
Harry T. Cralle ◽  
Michael Chandler
Keyword(s):  
Technology Development ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Soft Systems Methodology ◽  
Genetically Engineered ◽  
Systems Methodology ◽  
Soft Systems ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
Development Technology ◽  
Agricultural Research And Development

The environment for agricultural research and development, technology transfer, and production is marked by conflict among persons with diverse ideas and goals for agriculture. The objective of this analysis was to identify and compare models for researching and problem solving that can provide a conceptual framework for understanding and improving complex situations marked by conflict. The research activities of scientists involved in development of genetically-engineered-herbicide resistance were modeled as reductionist science, technology development, and optimizing systems. An analysis of these models of goal-seeking research indicated that values and assumptions implicit in goals such as greater productivity were not evaluated or questioned. Views of experts influenced development and application of technologies and systems more than concerns of producers and society. A soft systems methodology and research system is proposed to involve more diverse ideas or views of the world, to shift the role of the researcher from expert to facilitator, and to move toward consensus concerning research and technology development in agriculture.

Private Agricultural R&D: Do the Poor Benefit?

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jock R. Anderson ◽  
Regina Birner ◽  
Latha Najarajan ◽  
Anwar Naseem ◽  
Carl E. Pray
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
Agricultural Research And Development ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Private agricultural research and development can foster the growth of agricultural productivity in the diverse farming systems of the developing world comparable to the public sector. We examine the extent to which technologies developed by private entities reach smallholder and resource-poor farmers, and the impact they have on poverty reduction. We critically review cases of successfully deployed improved agricultural technologies delivered by the private sector in both large and small developing countries for instructive lessons for policy makers around the world.

scholarly journals Making sense of farmers’ demand for seed of root, tuber and banana crops: a systematic review of methods

Food Security ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Pircher ◽  
Conny J. M. Almekinders
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Classification Scheme ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
The Body ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Seed Systems ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Root Tuber ◽  
Agricultural Research And Development

AbstractA demand-driven approach is becoming increasingly central in the efforts to improve agricultural research and development. However, the question of how exactly demand is studied usually remains unstated and is rarely discussed. We therefore carried out a systematic review in order to better understand how farmers’ demand for seed in root, tuber and banana seed systems is studied. The review is based on data from a consultation with an expert panel and a structured literature search in the SCOPUS database. Screening the gathered articles resulted in 46 studies on a global scale, fitting the scope of our investigation. Through qualitative analysis and categorization of these studies, we developed a classification scheme according to the types of approaches applied in the retained studies. One group of studies explicitly articulates farmers’ preferences and choices through surveys or engagements in trials, auctions, choice experiments and interviews. Other studies implicitly articulate farmers’ demand by characterising their current use of varieties and seed. We discuss opportunities and limitations in the use of each type of study and we reflect on the body of available literature as a whole. Our conclusion is that a framework is necessary that purposefully combines the existing different methods and that it is necessary to involve stakeholders in a process where demand is articulated. Together, these two steps would characterise existing demands in a more effective and precise way, thus providing better guidance to decision-makers in their reactions pertaining to seed systems.

Distributional Weights in Benefit-Cost Analysis: Examples from Rwanda and Uganda

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B. Moss ◽  
Andrew Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Cost Analysis ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Systematic Variation ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Benefit Cost Analysis ◽  
Small Producer ◽  
Agricultural Research And Development ◽  
Benefit Cost

Abstract The question of how to allocate scarce agricultural research and development dollars is significant for developing countries. Historically, benefit/cost analysis has been the standard for comparing the relative benefits of alternative investments. We examine the potential of shifting the implicit equal weights approach to benefit/cost analysis, as well as how a systematic variation in welfare weights may affect different groups important to policy makers. For example, in the case of Rwandan coffee, a shift in the welfare weights that would favor small coffee producers in Rwanda over foreign consumers of Rwandan coffee would increase the support for investments in small producer coffee projects. Generally, changes in welfare weights alter the ordering for selecting investments across alternative projects.

scholarly journals THE LINK BETWEEN AGRICULTURAL CROPS AND THE OIL CONCENTRATION OF POLLUTED SOIL

1970 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. C. Sabău
Keyword(s):  
Spring Wheat ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Latin Square ◽  
Random Order ◽  
Polluted Soil ◽  
Agricultural Crops ◽  
Yield Losses ◽  
Polluted Soils ◽  
Oil Concentration ◽  
Agricultural Research And Development

The paper presents the results of researches regarding oil polluted soils, that took place at the Agricultural Research and Development Station in Oradea, from 1993 to 2002. The experimental device was made out of 1 m² micro parcels, spread out in a random order in a Latin square; these parcels were polluted under control with petroleum from Suplacu de Barcău, Bihor County, with the following concentrations: 0, 1, 3, 5 and 10 % petroleum on the ploughed layer, with 4 repetitions. The experience was set out on a luvosoil and the soil was cultivated with millet, a plant which is considered to be tolerant to soil pollution, in the first 3 years, and with spring wheat in the last 7 years of research. The results of the research have shown that the yield losses are proportional with the petroleum concentration, and had a descending evolution. For instance, in the case of the 1% pollution, losses are insignificant after 7 years of crops.

scholarly journals It background of the medium-term storage of Martonvásár Cereal Genebank resources in phytotron cold rooms

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
C. Kuti ◽  
L. Láng ◽  
M. Megyeri ◽  
J. Bányai ◽  
Z. Bedő
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Plant Genetic Resources ◽  
Hungarian Academy ◽  
Germplasm Collections ◽  
Crop Varieties ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Cereal Species ◽  
Research Programmes ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Genebanks are storage facilities designed to maintain the plant genetic resources of crop varieties (and their wild relatives) and to ensure that they are made available and distributed for use by plant breeders, researchers and farmers. The Martonvásár Cereal Genebank (MV-CGB) collection evolved from the working collections of local breeders and consists predominantly of local and regional materials. Established in 1992 by the Agricultural Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Bedő, 2009), MVCGB with its over 10,000 accessions of the major species (Triticum, Aegilops, Agropyron, Elymus, Thinopyrum, Pseudoroegneria, Secale, Hordeum, Avena, Zea mays), became one of the approx. 80 cereal germplasm collections that exist globally. In Martonvásár breeding is underway on a number of cereal species, and large numbers of genotypes are tested each year in the field and under laboratory conditions. The increasing size of the research programmes assisted by a modern genebank background involve an enormous increase in the quantity of data that must be handled during research activities such as traditional breeding, pre-breeding and organic breeding. A computerized system is of primary importance to synchronize breeding and genebank activities, to monitor the quality and quantity of seed accessions in cold storage, to assist the registration of samples, and to facilitate characterization, regeneration and germplasm distribution.

scholarly journals Technical Change and Agricultural Productivity

2020 ◽  
pp. 219-238
Author(s):  
Christopher Cramer ◽  
John Sender ◽  
Arkebe Oqubay
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
High Yield ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Ecological Zones ◽  
Agricultural Research And Development ◽  
Public Agricultural Research

The evidence does not support gloomy generalizations about an irreversible African environmental crisis or pessimistic arguments that barriers to adopting Green Revolution technologies are insuperable. Although evidence on agricultural technology in Africa is often unreliable, food output and grain yields do appear to have risen strongly in some African economies.. Huge variations in crop yields, including within similar agro-ecological zones, suggest massive potential for policies to promote a rapid increase in yields. Agricultural research and development (R&D) within African countries—and production on many large-scale farms—has shown that dramatically higher yields are possible. Crop yield improvements—with the aid of suitable high-yield varieties (HYVs), public agricultural research spending, and especially investment in irrigation—are possible without draconian resettlement schemes, without wasteful extension service spending, and without recourse to micro-finance schemes. The methods underpinning commonly produced estimates of yields are unreliable, calling into question conventional wisdom that small farms are more efficient than larger farms.

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