Πλοήγηση ανά Θέμα "Agriculture"

3D numerical investigation of poultry farms pollutant emissions over complex terrains

Markousi M., Baxevanou C., Fidaros D., Bartzanas T., Kittas C. (2015)

Wind mapping is of utmost importance in various environmental engineering applications concerning pollution dispersion. The available wind atlases usually provide wind data with low spatial resolution relative to pollution ...

Afforestation of agricultural land as a measure of management and development of rural areas

Arabatzis, G.; Christopoulou, O. (2003)

The key measures for the environmental protection of agricultural land in the EEC countries, constitute accompanying measures of reformed Common Agricultural Policy. These measures concern the Reg. 2078/92/EEC about "crop ...

Agri-Food Surplus, Waste and Loss as Sustainable Biobased Ingredients: A Review

Rodrigues J.P.B., Liberal Â., Petropoulos S.A., Ferreira I.C.F.R., Oliveira M.B.P.P., Fernandes Â., Barros L. (2022)

Ensuring a sustainable supply of food for the world’s fast growing population is a major challenge in today’s economy, as modern lifestyle and increasing consumer concern with maintaining a balanced and nutritious diet is ...

Agricultural and water resources development in Thessaly, Greece in the framework of new European union policies

Mylopoulos, N.; Kolokytha, E.; Loukas, A.; Mylopoulos, Y. (2009)

The main challenges that inter-relate sustainable development with water resources management are to secure water for all humanity and for food production as well, to protect the ecosystems, to manage risk, to create public ...

Agriculture and the threat to biodiversity in sub-saharan Africa

Perrings C., Halkos G. (2015)

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment identified habitat loss due to the extensive growth of agriculture as the primary driver of biodiversity loss. One implication of this is that agricultural intensification has the potential ...

Application of variable rate fertilizer in a commercial apple orchard

Liakos, V.; Tagarakis, A.; Vatsanidou, A.; Fountas, S.; Nanos, G.; Gemtos, T. (2013)

The spatial variability of yield in an apple orchard is high due to the inherent soil variability and the impact of the environment on the trees. One practice of precision agriculture is the variable rate application (VRA) ...

Applications of natural zeolites on agriculture and food production

Eroglu N., Emekci M., Athanassiou C.G. (2017)

Zeolites are crystalline hydrated aluminosilicates with remarkable physical and chemical properties, which include losing and receiving water in a reverse way, adsorbing molecules that act as molecular sieves, and replacing ...

Applying a Convolutional Neural Network in an IoT Robotic System for Plant Disease Diagnosis

Xenakis A., Papastergiou G., Gerogiannis V.C., Stamoulis G. (2020)

Plant diseases are major threat to green product quality and agricultural productivity. Agronomists and farmers often encounter great difficulties in early detection of plant diseases and controlling their potential ...

Assess and prognosticate green house gas emissions from agricultural production of EU countries, by implementing, DEA Window analysis and artificial neural networks

Vlontzos G., Pardalos P.M. (2017)

One of the most important policy reforms for the European Union (EU) agriculture was the implementation of the Agenda 2000, which establishes a new framework for subsidies management, decoupled from both crop and animal ...

Automatic steering control of unmanned vehicles

Koumboulis, F. N.; Skarpetis, M. G. (2000)

The problem of robust automatic steering of an autonomous unmanned vehicle is studied. The problem is solved using a robust P-D feedback controller feeding back the path error and the front steering angle. The design goal ...

Bioaugmentation of animal feces as a mean to mitigate environmental contamination with anthelmintic benzimidazoles

Lagos S., Perruchon C., Tsikriki A., Gourombinos E., Vasileiadis S., Sotiraki S., Karpouzas D.G. (2021)

Anthelmintics are used to control infestations of ruminants by gastrointestinal nematodes. The limited metabolism of anthelmintics in animals result in their excretion in feces. These could be piled up in the floor of ...

Biostimulants application: A low input cropping management tool for sustainable farming of vegetables

Shahrajabian M.H., Chaski C., Polyzos N., Petropoulos S.A. (2021)

Biostimulants, are a diverse class of compounds including substances or microorganism which have positive impacts on plant growth, yield and chemical composition as well as boosting effects to biotic and abiotic stress ...

Characteristics of Farm Injuries in Greece

Alexe, D. M.; Petridou, E.; Dessypris, N.; Skenderis, N.; Trichopoulos, D. (2003)

Methodology: During a five-year period (1996-2000), 4,326 unintentional farm injuries have been recorded by the Emergency Department Injury Surveillance System in Greece. Data concerning demographic variables, accident ...

Circular bio-economy via energy transition supported by Fuzzy Cognitive Map modeling towards sustainable low-carbon environment

Kokkinos K., Karayannis V., Moustakas K. (2020)

Several energy transition plans attempt to establish low-carbon practices towards a circular bio-economy in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, most actions only try to assuage the impacts of climate change ...