Agricultural Administration Research Articles

Analysis on Application of GIS and GPS in Sugarcane Agriculture

This paper analyses the Agricultural administration in the field of sugarcane branch utilizing GIS and GPS Technologies. The creator found the execution of the innovation at exactness agribusiness locale and little homestead. At the end of the day, it was found the advantages of particular collecting by figuring out the spatial and fleeting cooperation among yield and adaption of the innovation to discover the connection between sugarcane cultivating and climate insurance in delicate food plain biological system.

MEMORY OF PETRO DMYTROVYCH SHUST

On September 4, 2020, at the 82nd year, died a well-known scientist in the branch of technology for the production the products of livestock, candidate of agricultural sciences Petro Dmytrovych Shust.
 D. Shust was born on January 23, 1939 in the village of Plysetsky, Vasylkiv district, Kyiv region. In 1957 he entered the zootechnical faculty of the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy, which he successfully graduated in 1962.
 From 1962 to 1975 he worked in the Ternopil region as a senior zootechnician of the regional state pedigree station, main zootechnician of the Borshchiv Administration of Agriculture, manager of the inter-collective farm fattening point, proxy head of the executive committee of the district Council of People's Deputies. From 1975 to 1978 he was the superior guild of the livestock of a specialized farm in production pork (bacon) of the state farm “Kyivsky” in the Kyiv-Sviatoshynskyi district of the Kyiv region. From 1978 to 1979 he was the main zootechnician of the Republican Trust of Experimental Farms and Elite-Seminal State Farms of Scientifically Experienced Institutions of the Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine.
 From 1979 to 1996 he was the director of the Experimental Station of the Beef Cattle Husbandry “Vorzel” of the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy. For these years, under his leadership, created a strong material and technical base for the spending the educational process for students and research work of postgraduate students and researchers of the station and the academy. An incubative guild, an experimental greenhouse and a farm-laboratory with fragments of various technologies for keeping and milking cattle, system of manure removal, watering of pastures were built. Working as the director of the station, P. D. Shust in 1986 defended his dissertation.
 In 1996, Petro Dmytrovych worked as a leading zootechnician department of the milk of the Main Administration of Animal Husbandry with the State Pedigree Inspectorate of the Ministry of Agriculture of Ukraine, and from 1997 to 2000 – superior of the production department, proxy general director PU “Kyivtvarynprom”. During his work in the production he four times was elected a deputy of the district and twice the city Councils of People's Deputies, awarded the order “Badge of Honor”, the medal "For Valiant Work", 5 gold and 6 silver medals EAPE of the USSR.
 From 2000 to 2002 – senior researcher of the Laboratory of Feeding and Using Pastures of the Institute of the Beef Cattle Husbandry UAAS, from 2002 to 2011 – manager of the Laboratory of Technology of the Beef Cattle Husbandry of the Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics NAAS. Working as the manager of the laboratory, Petro Dmytrovych in 2008 received a certificate of a senior researcher in the specialty of technology for the production the products of livestock.
 The scientific work of the scientist was turned at studying the dynamic growth of animal, digestion nutrients of feeds and balance of nitrogen, efficiency of feeds, growth muscular, bony and adipose tissues, transformation of feeds, accumulation of protein in organism and slaughter qualities of animals, raised in conditions of variable regime of feeding. Under his leadership have been developed the following technologies: rational use and preservation of natural forage lands (meadows and pastures); creation of cultivated pastures on the basis of multicomponent grass mixtures of different term of reaching pasture maturity; creation of a pasture conveyor for cattle of the meat direction of productivity. P. D. Shust's scientific achievement include about 100 scientific works, 10 patents and copyright certificates.
 He was an extraordinary person, friendly, frank, sensitive, sincere, truthful man and a professional in his affair. Petro Dmitrievich will forever remain a model for colleagues, friends and relatives. The bright memory of him will live in our hearts.
 The collective of the Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics nd. a. M.V.Zubets of NAAS.

АРХИВНЫЕ ДОКУМЕНТЫ ПО ИСТОРИИ ВОРОНЕЖСКОГО ЛЕСОУПРАВЛЕНИЯ (XIX – НАЧАЛО ХХ ВВ.)

The article discusses the source base of the research on the history of forestry in the Voronezh province in the 19th - early 20th centuries. These are mainly archival materials stored in the State Archive of the Voronezh Region. A list of the main archival funds with a brief description of their contents is given. The analysis of the information richness of these materials and the possibility of their use in studying the history of forestry in the Voronezh province is given. The article also provides data on the history of state institutions engaged in forestry in the Voronezh province - the Voronezh chamber of state property, the provincial administration of state property, the provincial administration of agriculture and state property, the Forest Protection Committee. The characteristic of archival materials related to their history is given. The article also provides data on archival materials related to the activities of individual forestries of the Voronezh province, and their characteristics. A concrete example is given of how archival documents from central and local authorities provide conflicting information. Based on a review of the documents stored in the collections of the State Archive of the Voronezh Region, the author concludes about the richness and variety of archival materials on the history of forestry in the Voronezh province in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Traditional Rules and Regulations for Water Resource Management through the Affecting and Fairing of Water User Organizations (WUOs) toward Agricultural Administrations

Traditional Rules and Regulations for Water Resource Management through the Affecting and Fairing of Water User Organizations (WUOs) toward Agricultural Administrations

Resource Conservation Technologies in Punjab: Status and Problems

Under present intensive cropping systems, conventional agricultural practices over long-term were not found sustainable as it contributed to soil degradation, poor soil water retention, inefficient use of natural resources and global warming. Therefore, conservation agriculture (CA) technologies/practices were encouraged for sustainable agriculture in different crops. CA is defined as cropping systems based on minimum soil disturbance with the permanent surface covered through the retention of crop residues combined with diverse crop rotations. Resource conserving technologies (RCTs) referred to those practices or technologies that enhanced resources or input use efficiency. Presently, these technologies are still under the early stages of the adoption process. In Punjab, considerable efforts were made to popularize and increase the adoption of RCTs by state agricultural university and concerned line departments. However, the policies and efforts are inadequate and ineffective to achieve the desired results due to the lack of specific information in terms of farmer’s point of view. It is important to recognize the problems of the farmers at the grass-root level as well as the extension system responsible for the dissemination of technologies as the required changes were linked to people’s behaviour and attitudes. The economic benefits of various RCTs were reported by the farmers as reviewed in most of the studies. Farmers had a favourable attitude towards different resource conservation technologies. Non-availability of inputs and difficulty in the proper functioning of resource conservation technologies were the common problems observed in most of the studies reviewed. This paper reviewed the emergent concerns of the status of resource conservation technologies, the attitude of farmers and analysis the problems in the adoption of selected resource conservation technologies in Punjab. This review would be of great utility to agricultural planners, educators, and administrators in general in formulating the relevant policies and programs. On the basis of these, the appropriate programs for promotion and adoption of resource conservation technologies can be planned and implemented in a more efficient way so that the maximum number of farmers could be benefitted from these technologies.

Implementation of Internet of Things depends on intention: young farmers’ willingness to accept innovative technology

Innovative applications of smart technology constitute a current trend in agricultural development. This study employed a technology acceptance model to explore the intention of young farmers to apply Internet of Things systems in field-level management of Taiwanese farms. An online questionnaire was used to collect data regarding farmers aged 45 years or younger who were currently engaged in agricultural production. Statistical analysis of 241 valid questionnaires revealed that young farmers’ intention to use innovative technologies was affected mainly by perceived organizational support, followed by average annual turnover, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and sense of trust in the system supplier. This study suggests that agricultural administration agencies should consider farmers’ farming needs and intention to use; agencies should employ problem-solving and design thinking when developing smart agriculture policies. Insightful design of incentives and guidance measures enables young farmers to maximize achievement and to minimize effort.

Examination of Sugarcane Yield by Simulating Aqua Crop to Overcome the Irrigation Deficiency

Crop simulation models are significant apparatus used for measuring crop yield response to various conditions, also designed for conceiving systems to get better agricultural administration. Sugarcane is a major C4 crop grown in canal irrigated areas of the country. It has been observed that climatic distortions particularly precipitation and greatest temperature affect crop productivity and sugar recovery. AquaCrop is a typical model used here to develop the yield of sugarcane under different situations. The development of canopy cover is mainly affected by evapotranspiration and lacking of soil water balance. So the prime objective of this research is to study the stability of soil water in the root sector by delivering more cane yields with less water. By using AquaCrop, the crop water productivity can be maintained, canopy cover gets developed and finally the crops can be saved from destruction. It is an incorporated application programming to mimic the associations between plant, water and soil. So, field administration and water system administration should be considered for producing more water productivity. Four basic segments are required in this model namely climate, crop, field and irrigation management and soil profiles to expand the water efficiency.

The Role of Educational and Demonstration Workshops in the Development of Vocational Education and Training for the Handicraft Industry of Tomsk Province in the Early XX Century

The present research featured educational and demonstration handicraft workshops in the Tomsk Province in the early XX century. The research objective was to determine the general course and features of the workshops that played a significant role in the modernization of technology and handicrafts in the region, along with other institutions of the Tomsk State Handicraft Committee, e.g. museums, warehouses, and libraries. The workshops became an important part of vocational education. A major role on the state level belonged to the administration of land management and agriculture and the Imperial Russian technical society. In the Tomsk province it belonged to the Tomsk Provincial Handicraft Committee and the Tomsk Department of the Russian Technical Society. By 1917, seventeen settlements in six parishes of the Province had seventeen workshops in nine areas of handicraft industry. Weaving, wagon-making, and agricultural engineering workshops predominated. They became centers for the development of vocational education and the popularization of new technologies. They organized educational support workshops for the adult population, sold modern machinery and materials, built warehouses for handicrafts and repair shops, instructor schools, etc. The network of workshops, along with vocational educational institutions, became the basis for the Soviet system of vocational education in Siberia in the post-revolutionary period. The paper contains an analysis of researches and historical sources. The results helped to fill the gaps in the history of vocational education in the South of Western Siberia.

Evaluation of Extension Training Program on Small-Scale Poultry and Rabbit Production Projects at Alexandria Governorate, Egypt

Aims: This study was undertaken to measure the efficacy of an extension training program associated with small-scale poultry and rabbit production projects in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt.
 Study Design: The study was applied using two levels of the Donald L Kirkpatrick model through Action Research approach. The presented content of training program to trainees included important knowledge and skills of three topics which are broilers, ducks and rabbits to success small-scale production projects.
 Place and Duration of Study: 52 trainees were considered as a purposive sample, who attended all sessions of the extension training program in the agricultural administration at Khurshid, Alexandria Governorate, during April 2018.
 Methodology: A structured questionnaire was designed to collect data from participants before and after implementation of the training program to measure approval level of trainees toward the training program elements and their knowledge and skills level.
 Results: The results revealed that majority (61.53%) of trainees had medium level of acceptance towards the extension training program components. Consequently, there was a significant improvement in the knowledge and skills levels of trainees after executing the extension program concerning broilers, ducks and rabbits production for promoting small- scale production projects. Findings also showed that deficiency of knowledge and experience related to poultry production, insufficient extension training programs, unavailability of proper site for establishing the project and getting its licenses, non-provision of capital and lack of veterinary services, in that order, were the most severe constraints of trainees affecting poultry production projects.
 Conclusion: This training program succeeded by increasing and improving the knowledge and skills of participants regarding poultry and rabbits production, which reflect on encouraging them to establish such income-raising projects.

Stages of the development of agricultural production in the Republic of Belarus: to the 100th anniversary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus

There are several stages associated with fundamental changes in arrangement and production technologies for the development of agricultural production in the Republic of Belarus. Each of the stage was associated with achievements of scientific and technological progress and had important social and economic consequences. The paper dwells on the stages of agriculture development in the Republic of Belarus since 1919 to the present days. The basic transformations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food as a body for state administration of agriculture are covered. It is shown that nowadays the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus performs absolutely greater part of functions in the field of state agriculture management, in particular: administration, economic regulation, legal regulation, state agricultural policy, state control. It is known that high level of agro-industrial complex development guarantees the food security of the state, therefore, political independence and sovereignty as well. Over the years of the sovereign existence, the Republic of Belarus has been able to restore and develop agriculture, ensuring the country’s food security, as well as become an important exporter of food and agricultural products. Thus, the achieved results of agricultural production confirm the right chosen course aimed at intensive methods of work based on achievements of science and technology.

History of Agricultural and Rural Development Projects in Hokuriku Regional Agricultural Administration Office

History of Agricultural and Rural Development Projects in Hokuriku Regional Agricultural Administration Office

History of Agricultural and Rural Development Projects in Kinki Regional Agricultural Administration Office

History of Agricultural and Rural Development Projects in Kinki Regional Agricultural Administration Office

Progress of Agricultural Infrastructure Improvement and Rural Development in Kyushu Regional Agricultural Administration Office

Progress of Agricultural Infrastructure Improvement and Rural Development in Kyushu Regional Agricultural Administration Office

20 Years History and Future Direction of Agricultural and Rural Development in Tokai Regional Agricultural Administration Office

20 Years History and Future Direction of Agricultural and Rural Development in Tokai Regional Agricultural Administration Office

Opuszczanie i porzucanie gospodarstw rolnych na Warmii i Mazurach w okresie kolektywizacji wsi (1948-1956)

One of the negative consequences of the Stalinist agricultural policy in Warmia and Masuria was the outflow of peasants from the countryside. Leaving and the arbitrary abandonment of homesteads were a response to administrative coercion used during collectivization and high benefits. Many peasants who refused to join pro�duction cooperatives were then convinced that they could not exist in the countryside. As a result, the offices of the local agricultural administration began to be flooded with applications for leaving homesteads. These decisions were also reinforced by the hampered process of enfranchisement that caused a sense of temporariness among agricultural settlers. The scale of resignation from running homesteads was so large in Warmia and Masuria that it caused the threat of a decline in agricultural production. The authorities took actions aiming at stopping this phe�nomenon. However, the difficulties applied towards peasants filing applications for leaving homesteads together with unrelenting fiscal oppression inclined some of them to make a decision of leaving agricultural workshops arbitrarily. After 1953, the scale of abandonments weakened partially as a result of an adjustment in the economic policy. The authorities did not manage to eliminate this phenomenon until the change in the agricultural policy caused by the October Plenum of the Central Committee of the PUWP in 1956.

„Gläserne Bauern“. Prinzipal-Agent-Probleme nationalsozialistischer Agrarpolitik am Beispiel der Regulierung der landwirtschaftlichen Pacht

Recent academic literature on agricultural policy during the first half of the twentieth century has foregrounded the trend of the growing state intervention into rural economies. Fromamicrohistorical perspective, this article focuses on strategies of the Nazi agricultural administration to govern land tenancy – an area mostly neglected by the literature onNazi agricultural policy up tonow. The findings show that the efforts to control tenancy relations can reveal crucial features of state intervention by the Nazi regime. By analyzing these efforts as attempts to solve principal-agent problems, the case of tenancy relations can serve as example for a more general shift within the relationship between the state and the rural population.

Effects of Medium-Term Amendment with Diversely Processed Sewage Sludge on Soil Humification-Mineralization Processes and on Cu, Pb, Ni, and Zn Bioavailability.

The organic fraction of sewage sludge administered to agricultural soil can contribute to slowing down the loss of soil’s organic carbon and, in some cases, can improve the physical and mechanical properties of the soil. One of the main constraints to the agricultural use of sewage sludge is its heavy metals content. In the long term, agricultural administration of sewage sludge to soil could enhance the concentration of soil heavy metals (as total and bioavailable fractions). The aim of this research was to evaluate the effects of medium-term fertilization with diversely processed sewage sludge on the soil’s organic carbon content and humification–mineralization processes, on the physical–mechanical properties of soil and their influence on the pool of potentially bioavailable heavy metals, in order to assess their effectiveness as soil organic amendments. After eight years of sludge administration; an increase in the concentrations of bioavailable form was evidenced in all the heavy metals analyzed; independently of the type of sludge administered. The form of sludge administration (liquid, dehydrated, composted) has differently influenced the soil humification–mineralization processes and the physical–mechanical properties of soil. The prolonged amendment with composted sewage sludge contributed to keeping the soil humification–mineralization process in equilibrium and to improving the physical and mechanical qualities of the treated soil.

Dupont de Nemours et le Comité d’administration de l’agriculture (1785- 1787) / Dupont de Nemours and the Committee for the administration of agriculture (1785-1787)

The Agriculture Administration Committee was born in response to a natural calamity: the drought of the spring 1785. On the initiative of Gravier de Vergennes, a committee originally formed of Tillet, Lavoisier, Dupont, D’Arcet and Poissonnier had been created to select palliative measures to be implemented by the services of Calonne, Controller General of Finance for the King Louis XVI. However, its proposals soon exceeded the initial objective, highlighting the obstacles to the progress of agriculture, vital for the nation's economy. Dupont has emerged as one of the most active members of this committee. A final report, given in 1787, described the foundation of the reforms that the French Revolution will implement.

Skutki prawne zmiany europejskiej regulacji wstępnie uznanych grup producentów owoców i warzyw

The objectives of the common agricultural policy for the years 2014–2020 changed the concept of creation and functioning of fruit and vegetable producer organizations. The European legislator has abolished the special arrangement, namely the authorization for participation in market mechanisms which was granted to preliminary recognized producer organizations. By adapting the rules to new European principles, Member States introduced changes in the relevant national laws. Procedure of reorganization through imprecisely formulated regulations (especially intertemporal ones) has led to serious doubts concerning interpretation and to discrepancy in the assessment of factual and legal states undertaken by agricultural administration. Adjustment challenges were especially evident in a situation where preliminary recognized producer organizations have unlawfully achieved their status, have not complied with recognition and cannot acquire the status of a recognized producer organization. According to parties involved, the consequences of a change in organizations’ legal status and financial aspects arising therefrom, remain disputable.

Greening the agri-environmental policy by territorial and participative implementation processes? Evidence from two French regions

After nearly three decades of agri-environmental policy in the European Union, the negative environmental impacts of agricultural practices are still an ongoing problem. Though a substantial body of work underlines the economic, cultural, and social factors that could encourage farmers to adopt less damaging farming practices, many researchers as well as practitioners raise the question of the efficacy of leaving agri-environmental policy processes in the hands of farmers' organizations and national agricultural departments. The activation of non-agricultural actors in these processes is increasingly considered as a driving force toward greener agri-environmental schemes. Using the case of two French regions during the 2007–2013 period, this study examines the effects of the new, decentralized, and multi-stakeholder governance of agri-environmental scheme implementation. This analysis explores how the presence of regional and local political entities and environmentalist organizations affect (or not) both the content of agri-environmental schemes and the traditional corporatist style of agricultural policy making. This study shows two main results. First, it reveals that non-agricultural actors adopt various strategies to neutralize the reformist effect their presence should theoretically have generated within agri-environmental policy. Second, it indicates the dominance of a sectoral and corporatist policymaking style over the territorial modes of policy implementation. Together, these dynamics underline a path dependency phenomenon in agricultural policies, one characterized by the political-economic dominant position of agricultural administrations and farmers’ groups.