Garden Work Research Articles

Impact and distributional effects of a home garden and nutrition intervention in Cambodia

Home garden interventions combining training in agriculture and nutrition have the potential to increase vegetable production and consumption in lower-income countries, but there remains a need for better evidence for impact. This study contributes to filling this gap by evaluating the impact and distributional effects of a home garden intervention in Cambodia. We used a cluster randomized controlled trial with before and after data for a sample of 500 rural households with children under five and women 16–49 years old. Impact was estimated using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) and conditional quantile regressions with non-parametric bounds. The results show that the intervention significantly increased the adoption of nearly all promoted gardening methods. More households (+ 35%; p < 0.01) produced vegetables, and the production period was extended by five months on average. One-month recall data show an increase in vegetables harvested (+ 25 kg; p < 0.01) and consumed (+ 10 kg; p < 0.01) from the garden. Quantile regressions confirm these findings and show that nearly all households benefitted, but households that were already doing better at baseline tended to benefit more. Seven-day recall data show an increase in the quantity of vegetables consumed (+ 61 g/day/capita; p < 0.01) and an increased quantity of vitamin A, folate, iron, and zinc contained in these vegetables. Women contributed more to the garden work than men and their time spent in the garden increased by 29 min/day on average. These results add further evidence that integrated home garden interventions can contribute to nutrition outcomes and that almost all participants can benefit.

УСЛОВИЯ ТРУДА ОБУЧАЮЩИХСЯ, ВЫПОЛНЯЮЩИХ АГРОТЕХНИЧЕСКИЕ ОПЕРАЦИИ В САДАХ И ВИНОГРАДНИКАХ

This article presents research data on the working conditions of students who perform agrotechnical operations in orchards and vineyards at low temperatures. The main hazards and difficulties faced by students are presented. The direct harm that these factors can cause to the psychological and physical health of the student is described. Medical substantiations of industrial injuries are given, data are presented that reflect the danger of non-compliance with safety precautions when working at low temperatures, and possible consequences of hypothermia caused by non-compliance with safety precautions are presented. The article provides recommendations, in particular, the implementation of the issuance of gloves to students, briefing on the correct selection of clothing and other safety measures that will improve the working conditions of students, reduce the level of industrial injuries, improve the quality of work, reduce the level of physical and psychological stress on the student , as well as to increase the levels of assimilation of educational material given in practical classes. Recommendations are also given, during the implementation of which the student will be able to independently reduce the level of exposure to cold on the body and protect himself from the negative effects of hypothermia. Also, in order to improve the working conditions of the student, measures were proposed to equip places of rest and heating for students performing work in gardens and vineyards during the cold season. Thanks to the analysis of medically justified data, it was possible to put forward a number of rationalization proposals that can be easily implemented in the conditions of the Kuban educational farm of the Kuban State Agrarian University named after I.T. Trubilin. The implementation of these recommendations will significantly improve the student's working conditions, as it will reduce the direct cold load on the student's body, which will allow him to perform the tasks assigned to him much more efficiently without negative consequences for physical and psychological health.

The effects of different factors on propagation by hardwood cuttings of some coniferous ornamental plants

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana ‘Ellwoodii’, Cryptomeria japonica ‘Elegans’ and x Cupressocyparis leylandii have great importance in terms of usage areas as ornamental plant. The overcoming the problem, that may be encountered in generative propagation of these taxa, using vegetative propagation method are very important for producers dealing with park and garden works. It was investigated that the effects of different greenhouse medium, rooting medium and phytohormones on propagation by hardwood cutting of studied taxa. In this study, three greenhouse medium (Greenhouse-1, 2 and 3 medium), two rooting medium (perlite and peat) and four phytohormones (IBA 1000, IBA 5000, NAA 1000 and NAA 5000 ppm) were selected. The first root and callus formation dates, rooting percentage, callus percentage, root length and the number of roots were determined. The results showed that the highest rooting percentages for C. lawsoniana ‘Ellwoodii’ were obtained as 100% in peat rooting medium (IBA 1000 ppm) at Greenhouse-2 medium and Greenhouse-3 medium and perlite rooting medium (control) at Greenhouse-3 medium. On the other hand, the highest rooting percentages for C. japonica ‘Elegans’ were obtained as 100% in IBA 1000, IBA 5000 and NAA 1000 ppm treatments at Greenhouse-1 medium, while this value for x C. leylandii occurred in NAA 5000 ppm treatment (73.33%) at Greenhouse-2 medium, in perlite rooting medium for both. The conditions required for the best rooting in cutting propagation vary according to the species studied, and generally, auxin applications, rooting medium temperature 5 °C higher than air temperature and use of perlite rooting medium can be recommended.

An Experimental Investigation on Dew Drain Water for Drinking Purpose

Now a day the drinking water quantity is day by day going down due to some environmental conditions or climatic changes and water scarcity. The groundwater level also decreased in the summer season in comparing to other weather conditions. Generally, the water demand per day is 133per capita. In desert regions or low groundwater level areas the water consumption is very low and usage is also reduced. Minimizing water problems recycled water is used for plantation, garden works, construction work; etc.., So this reason the water saving is important and innovation is needed for the usage of water for any purpose, mainly needed to drinking. This project deals with the dew drain water analysis for drinking purposes. The characteristics of dew drain water match the natural water as per BIS.

Development and Validation of a Risk Prediction Model for Mortality Using Nomogram Among the Chinese Older Adults

Background: Rapid population ageing is a worldwide trend, highlighting an urgent need to have a reliable prediction tool for estimating a general older adult mortality risk. Previous predictive models have limited by the cause mortality, clinical indexes, participants as young as 50 years old, and western countries. We aimed to develop and validate a all-cause mortality prediction model based on multidimensional risk factors in Chinese older adults. Methods: In three prospective cohorts, we used the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS) (mean age 88.08, n=37074) as the derivation cohort and the Healthy Ageing and Biomarkers Cohort Study (HABCS) (mean age 86.74, n=2552) and the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) (mean age 72.48, n=4794) as validation cohorts. 42 risk factors were filtered by Lasso regression. The predictive factors of final models were decided by both improved net reclassification improvement (NRI) and public health significance. Cox proportional hazards models were established the mortality risk prediction equations. Model fit was evaluated by discrimination C-statistic. We conducted the 10x10 cross-validation technique to evaluate the internal consistency of the discrimination and calibration performance. Calibration plots were shown the results by comparing the predicted probabilities with the observed probabilities. The prediction ability of the equation was illustrated by using Nomogram. Findings: During 20-year follow-up, 28158 older adults (76%) died, leading to a total of 101429 person-years of observation in the CLHLS. The final model for all-cause mortality included age, sex, cognitive status, ADL status, current spouse status, past smoke status, frequency of doing housework, frequency of reading and watching TV, and frequency of doing garden work. The C statistic of derivation Cohort was 0.728 (96%CI, 0.724,0.732), and external validation were 0.761 (96%CI, 0.749,0.773) in HABCS and 0.713 (96%CI, 0.697,0.729) in CHARS. Interpretation: This study provides an objective, validated, and acceptable predictive factors to predict mortality risk in Chinese older adults. Our finding suggest that these predictive factors could be useful for policy, epidemiological and clinical applications. Funding Information: This work was supported by the fund of “San-ming” Project of Medicine in Shenzhen (NO.SZSM201812088) for data collection and analysis. Declaration of Interests: None. Ethics Approval Statement: The Protection of Human Subjects for the CLHLS, HACBS and CHARLS were approved by the biomedical ethics committee of Peking university. The written informed consent was provided by survey respondents before investigation.

Forgotten Botany: The Politics of Knowledge within the Royal Botanical Garden of New Spain*.

Spanish naturalists established the Viceregal Botanical Garden of New Spain in Mexico City in 1788 to advance agriculture, manufacturing, and medicine. This colonial institution also served the ideological role of cultivating agents of empire. Rather than establish the garden in the already robust tradition of American botany, the Spanish appropriated this space, employing Creole students and servant workers to Europeanize local botanical knowledge through taxonomic colonialism. The different agendas at work in the botanical garden, which straddled the colonial and revolutionary periods in Mexico, destabilized not only this institution, but also the empire itself from the ground up. That the contributions of the agents of the garden have been forgotten is evidence of the fragility and failure of a European institution in the American colonial state.

Rural Ritual, Gardened Faith: Ford Madox Ford's Memorial Plots

This article examines the importance of the working country garden to the memorial narratives of Ford Madox Ford. It begins with a study of Ford before the Great War; considering how his particular brand of Literary Impressionism was frequently used to make a case for memorializing the rural poor and their surrounding landscape from The Heart of the Country (1906) to The Fifth Queen saga (1906–08). Moving to Post-War Sussex and Kent, it examines Ford's continuing interest in the country garden and rural community, reading his gardening practices as attempted personal reconstruction through faith in landscape production. As Ford moves from small-holding to small-holding, and eventually away for good, it discusses how the narratives of his part-fictive biographies, including Thus to Revisit (1921) and It was the Nightingale (1934), repeatedly return to rural England to resituate the developments of Literary Impressionism – and Ford's most formative literary friendships – in and about the garden. The repetitions of garden work; of sowing, weeding, and digging over plots, proved essential to Ford's in-text ritualisations of rural life and literary innovation alike.

Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorder of Upper Limb In Gardeners of Pakistan Horticulture Authority

For non-lethal professional traumas, the most prevailing injuries were nonfatal and ailment every year. However, for the fitness care and community based job occupation, half of the total absence because of ailment is reported at jobor due to job. Objective: To determine the Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Disorder of Upper Limb in Gardeners of PHA. Methodology: An observational study conducted Dash and VAS questionnaire used for the study. Data collected from gardeners of PHA. Participants participated voluntarily by completing a questionnaire with excellent reliability. The questionnaire contained many items to evaluate problems in shoulder, elbow and hand. The duration of the study were 4 months after approval of synopsis. A sample technique was convenient sample technique result analyzedwith SPSS version 21.Results: 185 participants are selected for study. Data collected from PHA gardeners.50 (23.9%)reported with severe difficulty that was highest frequency reported for severe difficulty while doing garden work in gardeners. Moderate difficulty reported with high frequency in gardeners while carrying heavy objects. Workactivities reported like hammering with high frequency of inability to perform this activity due to disability.it is also reported that gardeners are very limited in work .high frequency reported in severity of symptoms in shoulder,arm and hands in gardeners Conclusions: This study indicates gardeners are direct sufferers of musculoskeletal disorders with pain symptoms in shoulder, arm and hands.VAS scale measures showing upper limb disorderssymptoms are producing limitations in daily work.

LIVELIHOOD REALISM: A REVIEW ON CLOSED TEA GARDENS OF DOOARS, WEST BENGAL

The paper is an attempt to understanding the ongoing livelihood realities in closed/ abandoned tea garden of Bengal-Dooars (Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar). The region produced large scale good qualities tea in more than 150 organised tea estates. Tea industry of North Bengal has been trashily affected by global economic quandary and local constraints. Many tea estates failed to manage the shock; the management closed many gardens. The garden closure and work shutdown have been produced a livelihood disaster. A school drop-out, child trafficking, Child labour mobility, rally of hunger and starvation death and extreme poverty is the ongoing livelihood phenomena in labour colonies of closed tea gardens. The present paper has discussed the particulars (housing, drinking water, medical facilities, education, liabilities etc.) of five closed gardens by using the data from TG Survey Final Report, Labour Commissionerate, Govt. of West Bengal and Tea Board of India.

Garden Work: Prosaic Alightments in Modern Ecology and "Kew Gardens"

Garden Work: Prosaic Alightments in Modern Ecology and "Kew Gardens"

ROLE OF PROFESSOR S. O. ILLICHEVSKYI IN BOTANIC AND NATURE PROTECTING RESERCHES DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

For the first time life and professional impact of candidate of biological sciences, professor, prominent Ukrainian botanist Serhii Olimpiyovych Illichevskyi (1895-1959?) are most completely described. His impact to the development of phenology, dendrology, flora and completing range of herbariums is analyzed. Authors made conclusion about key role of the scientist in nature protection, forming of preserved fund of Poltava Region (1930s) on the basis of gathered material. His multifold activity in exploring phyto-multiformity of Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, Donetsk Regions and Crimea is also observed. Data about S. O. Illichevskyi’s work in some botanical gardens and dendrological parks in Ukraine, and his pedagogical studies is given. Range of scientists, whom he contacted and wrote letters to, especially such famous as Volodymyr Vernadskyi, Mykola Hryshko, Volodymyr Komarov, Oleksandr Fomin – is named.

Primary Materials

Abstract This article explores plants, seeds, soils, and other nonhuman actors as archival and architectural agents within the history of Lahore's urban landscape, as seen from the ground. It traces the halting efforts of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Punjab to enact regional improvement through the development of agricultural and botanical expertise at the advent of British colonial rule in the province, focusing on the materialization of this work in the society's gardens in Lahore. Foregrounding the contingencies of everyday garden making and maintenance, the article posits nonhuman ecologies as a materially diverse and ephemeral architecture and archive of landscape. It argues that, in helping assemble and modulate the society's efforts to model improvement, conduct plant testing, and develop an ornamental garden, plants, seeds, and soils become unlikely and sometimes unruly aesthetic and historical actors, furthering but also unsettling improvement discourse while relocating its historical effects from the region to the city, and providing new readings of the colonial urban landscape.

Compassion in the Garden: Radical Homemakers or Just More Women’s Work?

Abstract Compassion is key to Australian women’s garden stories and return-to-the-home environmentalism. These stories highlight the gendered power implications of women’s work. Questions about who is suffering and who is caring are paramount. Women’s garden narratives are hopeful: they capture the interconnection between the local and global and the ethics of care promoted by ecofeminists. Yet when women gardeners embrace a care ethic which sees their own domestic workload skyrocket in order to alleviate environmental suffering, their compassion stories risk becoming what Lauren Berlant terms ‘collective norms of obligation’. Through aural storytelling in Pip permaculture magazine podcasts, women gardeners consider how the responsibility of ordinary, caring garden work fits within their already numerous, significant, and everyday caring responsibilities. Their collaboration reveals innovative solutions to this conundrum. Their compassionate garden work becomes a domestic practice of time, effort, and joy.

Economic Empowerment through Self-employment Initiatives: A Group Work Experience based on a Sri Lankan Village

This article looks into the application of groupwork in Sri Lanka with a group of women-headed households (WHHs) to empower them and promote a sustainable economic development through self-employment initiatives. This particular groupwork was carried out in an underprivileged rural village, in Sri Lanka. Participants were divided into three groups based on their interest in the following livelihood activities; home gardening, tailoring and handloom work. They were facilitated with different activities for the period of six months. The significant changes were; improved skills in selected area, leadership and team work, documentation, mutual support, internal harmony among the community members, marketing skill and self-confidence.

A LITTLE-KNOWN COLLECTION OF STUKELEY DRAWINGS IN THE SPALDING GENTLEMEN’S SOCIETY

Spalding Gentlemen’s Society holds, among its varied collections of William Stukeley papers, a virtually unknown set of forty-four important drawings dating from 1720–64. It is an intimate collection closely connected with Stukeley and his immediate family: portraits, his houses and gardens in Lincolnshire and Kentish Town, and a few miscellaneous family history papers. Originally, the collection was bound into an album which, as the latest drawing dates from the year before Stukeley’s death, was almost certainly compiled post mortem by a family member. For many years the collection was lost, but recent investigation has revealed that c 1866–7 it was purchased by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., and sold at auction in 1910. It has been in Spalding ever since, arriving at the Spalding Gentlemen's Society possibly about 1950. Cataloguing the collection was recently undertaken by this author and the enhanced significance given by this and the revealed provenance enabled the Society to apply successfully to the Heritage Lottery Fund for a grant towards conservation and storage. The great value of the collection is that it hugely increases our knowledge of Stukeley’s houses and gardens, particularly his garden works, and illuminates the evolution of Stukeley’s thoughts on garden design.

Teamwork to tackle the food security crisis

Teamwork to tackle the food security crisis

Autonomous Mowers Working in Narrow Spaces: A Possible Future Application in Agriculture?

Autonomous mowers are becoming increasingly common in public and private greenspaces. Autonomous mowers can provide several advantages since these machines help to save time and energy and prevent operators from possible injuries. Current autonomous mowers operate by following random trajectories within areas defined by a shallow-buried boundary wire that has the purpose to generate an electro-magnetic field. Once the electro-magnetic field is perceived by the autonomous mower, the machine will stop and change direction. Mowing along random trajectories is considered an efficient solution to manage areas with a variable number of obstacles. In agriculture, autonomous technologies are becoming increasingly popular since they can help to increase both the quantity and quality of agricultural products by reducing productive cost and improving the production process. Thus, even autonomous mowers may be useful to carry out some of the agricultural operations that are highly time consuming. In fact, some autonomous mowers designed and realized to work in vineyards and home vegetable gardens are already available on the market. The aim of this study was to compare the work capacity of six autonomous mowers that move along random trajectories in areas with a high number of obstacles to assess if these machines may be employed in some agricultural contexts. The six autonomous mowers were split in three groups based on their size (large, medium, and small) and were left to work in two areas with equal number of obstacles but different layouts. The first area (Site A) had a square shape and an extension of 23.04 m2, in order to keep the autonomous mowers enclosed inside it. The second area (Site B) had a square shape and an extension of 84.64 m2, in order to have a part of the area with no obstacles. The layout and the size of the two areas affected the autonomous mowers performances in different ways. The six autonomous mowers working on Site A obtained similar results and higher performances compared to the same mowers working on Site B. All the autonomous mowers proved to be able to mow more than 89% of Site A after 2 h and more than 98% of Site A after 5 h. On Site B small size autonomous mowers obtained the best results mowing more than 83% of the area with obstacles after 2 h and more than 98% of the area with obstacles after 5 h. However, specific work settings allowed larger autonomous mowers to improve their efficiency, obtaining similar results compared to smaller autonomous mowers.

ИТОГИ СЕЛЕКЦИОННОЙ РАБОТЫ С ХРИЗАНТЕМОЙ МЕЛКОЦВЕТКОВОЙ В СТАВРОПОЛЬСКОМ БОТАНИЧЕСКОМ САДУ

Breeding work in the botanical garden with chrysanthemum small-flowered started in 2006. Hybrid plants were obtained from free pollination of varieties, which were the starting material for further work. 55 of the most decorative designs were revealed. They were carried out phenological observations, evaluation of decorativeness, economic and biological characteristics. As a result, four varieties — Kaleidoscope, Zefirka, Plamya, Iriska received patents and copyright certificates, they are included in the Register of Breeding Achievements of the Russian Federation. Decorative samples are further explored, contribute greatly to the problem of preserving biological diversity and are of great interest to specialists.

Circuito Alameda: Algunos apuntes sobre las obras Jardín Alameda, Encontros, Caja de Choque y Serigrafías

&lt;p&gt;La exposición personal de Gilbertto Prado y del Grupo Poéticas Digitais fue realizada en el Laboratorio Arte Alameda, LAA, de la Ciudad de México en junio/agosto de 2018. La muestra “Circuito Alameda” combinó una serie de obras &lt;em&gt;site specific&lt;/em&gt; creadas para el LAA, en el antiguo convento de San Diego (Sec. XVI) en diálogo con trabajos personales del artista y el Grupo dispuestos en 5 salas distintas. La idea, y su partido conceptual, fue establecer diversos circuitos con/entre el espacio y los visitantes en su relación con las obras. Se pusieron en escena los diversos procesos históricos, entre las costumbres locales, la invasión, la colonización y evangelización, los choques culturales y sus vínculos del entorno urbano particularmente del vecino Paseo Alameda combinados con el relato de una trayectoria artística de varias décadas. La exposición fue curada por Jorge La Ferla. Este texto tratará de algunos apuntes sobre las obras Jardín Alameda, Encontros (Encuentros ) y Caja de Choque.&lt;/p&gt;

Gardens and gardening in early medieval Spain and Portugal

This is an overview of the range of gardens, garden plants and garden work in early medieval Spain and Portugal, and of the kinds of relevant source material available. There were different kinds of garden, from the architectural gardens of Andalusī rulers and officials to peasant plots in the countryside. Fine gardens were closely associated with an elite and were southern rather than northern. Productive gardens could be found all over the peninsula; vegetables were clearly grown in them, with the emphasis on pulses, but they constituted a small proportion of produce. Fruits were exceptionally important as a source of vitamins, sugar and mineral salts.