Rural Innovation Using Technology in Progressive Agriculture

Sustainable technology is an individual and group effort through the experts and professionals in rural as well as urban people. Rural innovation involves efficient execution of ideas, information, imagination, and innovative initiative in fulfilling social requirements, and new ideas are converted into something useful for the rural development. It starts with the proper utilization of resources, rural innovation, and modernization of agricultural activities. The study attempts to identify the use of sustainable technology with rural innovation, progressive agriculture, and women empowerment for rural development. The required data collected led to a discussion that the practices of modern farming with the active involvements of rural population and promoting individual performance and fine-tuning of green initiative among rural livelihoods. The results of this study include the difficulties in progressive effort on rural innovation vis-a-vis planning and executing of advanced farming, protecting traditional arts, and crafting through maximum involvement of rural women.

CFD Simulation of the Airflow Distribution Inside Cube-Grow

Cube-Grow was developed by MARDI to promote urban agriculture to the urban population. The product enables urban people to grow their vegetables with limited space. The initial test run of the system shows that the plant growth inside the structure was below expectation. The problem arises due to a lack of airflow or improper ventilation inside the structure. Optimum ventilation or airflow is crucial for plant growth as it enhances evapotranspiration at the leaf area to promote optimum plant growth. Therefore, this study aims to increase the airflow inside the Cube-Grow and find the best location for the air hole. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation was used in this study the analyse the effect of adding an air hole to the airflow characteristic inside the Cube-Grow. CFD also was used to select the best location to place the air hole. 3 option of air hole location was analysed and the results were compared with the existing design. The initial CFD simulation results were compared with the actual measurement data before it was used for further analysis. The result shows that adding an air hole increases overall airflow inside the Cube-Grow. Option 3 was chosen as the best location for the air hole as it produces a uniform and higher airflow inside the Cube-Grow. The study proved that CFD was able to be used to optimize the design of Cube-Grow before the actual prototype was built.

Predictors of support for biodiversity loss countermeasures and bushmeat consumption among Vietnamese urban residents

Biodiversity loss is happening at an unprecedented rate, especially in countries like Vietnam with rich biodiversity and high population growth rate. One of the main causes of biodiversity loss in Vietnam is increasing bushmeat consumption in urban areas. To help mitigate the demand for bushmeat, this study aims to examine the associations between biodiversity loss perceptions, attitude towards the prohibition of illegal wildlife consumption, and bushmeat consumption behaviors among urban residents in Vietnam. The investigation employed the Bayesian Mindsponge Framework (BMF) on 535 respondents from multiple urban areas across Vietnam. We found that people perceiving environmental degradation, losses of economic growth, nature-based recreation opportunities, health, and knowledge as consequences of biodiversity loss were more likely to support the prohibition of illegal wildlife consumption. Although urban residents tended to consume bushmeat less frequently if they perceived losses of economic growth and knowledge as consequences of biodiversity loss, the perception of environmental degradation had an opposite effect on the behavior. Additionally, people consuming bushmeat frequently and supporting the biodiversity loss preventive measure seemed to share similar features: high income and educational levels. These paradoxical results hint at the existence of cultural additivity effects on psychology and behavior among Vietnamese urban residents. Given the influence of cultural additivity, It is recommended to put tougher measures (e.g. financial punishment) into perspective so that urban people can recognize the high “cost” of bushmeat consumption and change their attitude and behaviors accordingly. Apart from that, social marketing, demarketing, or educational campaigns should convey knowledge and information that can help receivers relate to their subjective cost-benefit judgements.

Systematical business analysis for Haidilao based on the customer's preference and SWOT model

Haidilao has created a model for China's catering service industry. From corporate management to brand building, it embodies its indelible emotional marketing. This article analyzes the development of Haidilao and investigates the methods for how to satisfy the customers. This research captures the detailed behavior of Haidilao to keep more customers participation. Then, this study establishes the SWOT model to Haidilao and giving insights about Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. This article also introduces the most opportunity for this firm is that with the development of society, China's economy has developed rapidly. This would bring many new urban people and mobile people emerging and catering industry products. In the future, more quantitative analysis will be conducted for the company's business development.

Ядохимикаты и пищевые страхи в Камбодже

Химические вещества, присутствующие в пищевых продуктах, вызывают все большее обществен-ное беспокойство в Камбодже. Мысль о том, что пища содержит остатки этих невидимых, но вредных для здоровья субстанций, утвердилась в умах. Различные пищевые страхи формируют новое коллективное воображаемое, и каждый старается выработать определенную стратегию, чтобы справиться с ними. На основании этнографического исследования среди горожан, сельско-хозяйственных производителей, продавцов риса и зелени, а также продавцов химикатов, прове-денного в период между июнем 2018 и мартом 2019 гг., мы проанализируем коллективное вооб-ражаемое о пищевых продуктах и формы приспособления, которые вырабатываются в ответ на пищевые страхи. Chemical substances in food is a source of growing concern in Cambodia. Despite the invisibility of these substances, the idea that food contains chemical residues harmful to health is gaining ground. A full range of food scares emerge. A new imaginary of food is spreading and everyone try to develop strategies to ar-range with the fear of being contaminated. Based on an ethnographic study conducted in Cambodia be-tween June 2018 and March 2019 with urban people, farmers, rice, fresh fruits, vegetables and input sellers, this article examines the collective imaginaries of food and the adaptations developed in response to the fear of being contaminated.

The Power of the People

Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Republic in 1923 under the rule of Atatürk and his Republican People's Party, Turkey embarked on extensive social, economic, cultural and administrative modernization programs which would lay the foundations for modern day Turkey. The Power of the People shows that the ordinary people shaped the social and political change of Turkey as much as Atatürk's strong spurt of modernization. Adopting a broader conception of politics, focusing on daily interactions between the state and society and using untapped archival sources, Murat Metinsoy reveals how rural and urban people coped with the state policies, local oppression, exploitation, and adverse conditions wrought by the Great Depression through diverse everyday survival and resistance strategies. Showing how the people's daily practices and beliefs survived and outweighed the modernizing elite's projects, this book gives new insights into the social and historical origins of Turkey's backslide to conservative and Islamist politics, demonstrating that the making of modern Turkey was an outcome of intersection between the modernization and the people's responses to it.

PERCEPTION OF FARMERS ABOUT COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT ON THEIR LIVELIHOODS

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated lockdown for an extended period must created a signicant adverse impact on different sectors, including that of the agriculture. Enforcement of curfew as a control measure caused adverse effect in both rural and urban people live and livelihood. Nationwide lockdown against the novel coronavirus disease, the agricultural system and farmers heavily endured a period of deterioration. The present study aimed to depict intricacies of COVID 19's inuence on farmer livelihood. For the purpose 200 farmers in Tamil Nadu had identied and state their opinion through digital mode. The ndings of the study indicated that signicant decrease in agricultural output, consumption, and marketing, as well as a signicant increase in input prices and the country's labour shortage.It also emphasize the epidemic has impacted farmers' earnings and standard of living.

Evaluation of Biochemical and Microbiological Properties of Pleurotus ostreatus Mushrooms Cultivated and Sold in M’Badon Village (Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire)

Objective: The present study aims to constitute a database necessary for the efficient valorisation of the local cultivated edible mushrooms in the Ivorian diet. This work consisted in evaluating the biochemical characteristics and microbiology analysis of cultivated Pleurotus ostreatus species sold and used in rural and urban people food. Methodology: Standard methods proposed by AOAC made this study possible to determine the biochemical parameters such as dry matter, ash, pH, moisture, protein and lipid content. The microbiological analyses enabled the enumerations of yeasts and molds, fecal coliforms, aerobic mesophilic germs, detection and enumeration of Escherichia coli and Salmonella were performed. Results: The results showed that the cultivated Pleurotus ostreatus is a food, rich in protein (16.37 ± 0.6 % dw), crude fibre (24.85 ± 0.08 dw) and in ash (11.00 ± 1.33 % dw). On the other hand, this mushroom is relatively low in lipids (4.16 ± 0.13% dw) and reducing sugars (1.04 ± 0.07 % dw) with a low moisture content (6.40 ± 1.13 % dw). These results also revelated the absence of Salmonella and Escherichia coli in the flour. Conclusion: Local cultivated Pleurotus ostreatus mushroom is an undeniable source of protein and crude fibre. Thus it would be used as a substitute for meat diet, allow a good functioning of the immune system and the good development of bones. It also show satisfactory microbiological criteria. Thus Pleurotus ostreatus mushroom is a safety food for ivorian.