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Agriculture, Volume 11, Issue 12

December 2021 - 121 articles

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Cover Story: Climate change is internationally recognized as a source of concern by governments, scientists and public opinion. In this context, the need to find concrete solutions becomes increasingly urgent. Numerous economic sectors contribute to alteration of climate, especially livestock and, more generally, food production-related activities. For this reason, animal welfare policies, the complex of norms and regulations adopted by single Member States and the European Union in the field of meat production, could be a useful instrument in the climate transition invoked by policy makers and scientists.View this paper

Articles (121)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,253 Views
14 Pages

20 December 2021

This article analyses the available income of farmer households in Poland in 2003–2020 in the context of their level, variability, and differentiation. The income situation of farmers was analysed from the intra-sectoral perspective and the int...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,538 Views
14 Pages

Biostimulant Effects of an Aqueous Extract of Duckweed (Lemna minor L.) on Physiological and Biochemical Traits in the Olive Tree

  • Luca Regni,
  • Daniele Del Buono,
  • Begoña Miras-Moreno,
  • Biancamaria Senizza,
  • Luigi Lucini,
  • Marco Trevisan,
  • Diletta Morelli Venturi,
  • Ferdinando Costantino and
  • Primo Proietti

20 December 2021

Biostimulants are becoming increasingly popular in agriculture for their ability to induce beneficial effects in crops, paving the way towards the identification of new materials with biostimulant potential. This study evaluated the potential of diff...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,482 Views
9 Pages

Field Inoculation of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Improves Fruit Quality and Root Physiological Activity of Citrus

  • Ming-Ao Cao,
  • Peng Wang,
  • Abeer Hashem,
  • Stephan Wirth,
  • Elsayed Fathi Abd_Allah and
  • Qiang-Sheng Wu

20 December 2021

Soil arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi form a mutualistic symbiosis with plant roots and produce many benefits on host plants under potted conditions, while field inoculation of AM fungi on citrus (a woody plant) has been rarely reported. The present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,339 Views
17 Pages

20 December 2021

The effects of autumn plowing and lime nitrogen application on rice straw decomposition, CH4 and N2O emission and rice growth in the following year in a high-yielding rice cultivated paddy field were evaluated for two years. The experimental plots we...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,135 Views
13 Pages

Insight into Yeast–Mycotoxin Relations

  • László Attila Papp,
  • Enikő Horváth,
  • Ferenc Peles,
  • István Pócsi and
  • Ida Miklós

19 December 2021

Fungal mycotoxins are secondary metabolites that can be present in green forage, hay, or silage. Consumption of contaminated plants or agricultural products can cause various animal and human diseases, which is why problems associated with mycotoxins...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,301 Views
16 Pages

Early Relay Intercropping of Short-Season Cotton Increases Lint Yield and Earliness by Improving the Yield Components and Boll Distribution under Wheat-Cotton Double Cropping

  • Guoping Wang,
  • Lu Feng,
  • Liantao Liu,
  • Yongjiang Zhang,
  • Anchang Li,
  • Zhanbiao Wang,
  • Yingchun Han,
  • Yabing Li,
  • Cundong Li and
  • Hezhong Dong

19 December 2021

Wheat-cotton double cropping has improved crop productivity and economic benefits per unit land area in many countries, including China. However, relay intercropping of full-season cotton and wheat, the most commonly adopted mode, is labor-intensive...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,970 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2021

To ensure sustainable agricultural production and protection of crops from various biotic and abiotic stresses, while keeping in view environmental protection, by minimal usage of chemicals, the exploitation of beneficial microorganisms and modern na...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,058 Views
16 Pages

19 December 2021

Water management and irrigation conservation in calcareous sandy soil are of significant importance for sustaining agricultural production, especially in arid and semi-arid region that facing scarcity of water resources. The changes in hydro-physical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
3,985 Views
20 Pages

19 December 2021

Temperature is one of the most important meteorological variables for global climate change and human sustainable development. It plays an important role in agroclimatic regionalization and crop production. To date, temperature data have come from a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,326 Views
14 Pages

18 December 2021

High and stable seed yield is critical for red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) seed production and the commercial exploitation of the crop. A three-year experiment was conducted from 2013 to 2015 under Danish field conditions to explore the influence...

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