455 papers
This paper examines a Scottish educational intervention demonstrating that targeted digital communication, combined with enhanced farming literacy and experiential learning, can effectively reframe farming as an aspirational career choice for young people to address the global workforce renewal crisis.
This study demonstrates that *Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans*-mediated bioleaching effectively removes alkali and alkaline earth metals from agricultural biomass residues under optimized conditions, significantly reducing ash-related combustion issues and enhancing energy properties to enable sustainable thermochemical conversion within a circular bioeconomy.
This study demonstrates that semi-continuous dark fermentation of lactic acid-enriched coffee mucilage, optimized with a hydraulic retention time of less than one day and a substrate concentration of 10–20 g/L, achieves high hydrogen production rates and yields by promoting butyric acid pathways, thereby validating coffee mucilage as a strategic substrate for sustainable biohydrogen production.
This field study demonstrates that supplementing post-weaning pig diets with *Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus* RC007 or *Lactiplantibacillus plantarum* RC009 significantly improves growth performance by modulating gut microbiota composition, metabolic functions, and systemic biochemical markers.
This study of 360 smallholder households in Jiangxi, China, reveals that while digitally enabled advisory systems effectively foster conservation readiness by improving information access and behavioral control, they fail to guarantee actual adoption when farmers face significant endowment-based execution constraints, necessitating policy interventions that pair information with tangible resource and service support.
This study demonstrates that zinc oxide nanoparticles coupled with deltamethrin offer a more effective and safer bio-nanomolecule for controlling Hyalomma ticks compared to the chemical acaricide alone, as evidenced by enhanced acaricidal efficacy and reduced genotoxicity in non-target organisms.
A study in Gomba district, Uganda, revealed a high prevalence of oxytetracycline residues in beef, with most samples exceeding safe limits due to irrational antibiotic use, highlighting an urgent need for farmer education and stricter government regulation to mitigate risks to human health.
This study demonstrates that the Olsen phosphorus extraction method is a highly reliable predictor of plant P availability in lettuce, revealing that while no-till preserves soil structure, combining soil loosening with microbial inoculation maximizes nutrient uptake by mitigating the negative effects of soil compaction and chemical constraints.
This study utilizes GC-MS analysis to demonstrate that co-culture fermentation of African oil bean seeds with *Lactobacillus fermentum* and *Bacillus subtilis* produces a distinct and diverse profile of volatile compounds, including 2-nonen-1-ol, offering valuable insights for standardizing the production of the traditional condiment Ugba.
A cross-sectional study conducted in Toke Kutaye District, Ethiopia, between December 2023 and October 2024 revealed an overall mange mite infestation prevalence of 31.25% in small ruminants, with significantly higher rates observed in sheep, males, animals with poor body condition, those under extensive management systems, and during the wet season.