The Impact of Land Transfers on the Adoption of New Varieties: Evidence from Micro-Survey Data in Shaanxi Province, China

Land transfers play a vital role in determining the level of farm machinery ECHINAFORCE service and variety selection by scattered land reduction and contiguous land enhancement, which are also conducive to poverty alleviation and welfare utilization.Based on the micro-survey data of 898 kiwifruit growers in Shaanxi Province, this paper analyzed th

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Energy Saving in Electromechanical Grain Cleaning Systems

The article is concerned with energy conservation in the process of cleaning grain.The study aimed to find ways of reducing energy consumption when cleaning food grains by using energy-saving operating modes (ESOM) on the production lines of grain storage facilities.For this purpose, experimental tests were performed which involved studying the eff

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The determinants of technical efficiency in beekeeping farms and the role of agricultural subsidies: the case of Nigde, Turkey

This paper examines the association between agricultural subsidies and farm efficiency using Rehmannia stochastic frontier analysis on beekeeping farming.Turkey has huge honey production potential.However, traditional production mode negatively affects the total production and productivity.In this study, it was used primary data from 54 producers i

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Plasma antibodies from humans infected with zoonotic simian foamy virus do not inhibit cell-to-cell transmission of the virus despite binding to the surface of infected cells.

Zoonotic simian foamy viruses (SFV) establish lifelong infection in Metalised Polypropylene their human hosts.Despite repeated transmission of SFV from nonhuman primates to humans, neither transmission between human hosts nor severe clinical manifestations have been reported.We aim to study the immune responses elicited by chronic infection with th

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