Juniper Publishers Agricultural Research Journal

  Journal of Agriculture Research -  Juniper Publishers Safety vegetables are nutritionally essential for our good health, but we are daily fighting against to take “Safe and Fresh Vegetables” for “sake of “Good Health” due to contamination, adulterations and pesticides residues effects. The aim of the study was to examine the consumers’ preference for food quality and safety attributes of fresh vegetables by using quality and safety attributes of fresh vegetables using the best-worst scaling technique. The balanced incomplete block design procedure was employed to obtain a total 180 sample from Dhaka and Mymensingh city of Bangladesh. The data were collected through survey monkey software by using the pre-determined structured questionnaire and analyzed by the MaxDiff scaling and multinomial mixed logit regression model. The results revealed that fresh vegetable attributes were a combination of size, appearance, texture, freshness, and flavor as well as nutrition...

  Journal of Agriculture Research -  Juniper Publishers Invasive species pose significant threats to global agriculture, according to a study on impacts of 1300 invasive species on agriculture in 124 countries [1]. Invasive species dramatically decreased crop production and can be a major factor affecting food security [2]. In the United States alone, the losses in agricultural and forest production from invasive insects and pathogens have been estimated about $40 billion per year [3]. The United States as one of the four large agricultural producers in the world could experience a serious cost from further species invasion. The state of Hawaii makes up less than one percent of the United States land area but over 40 percent of the country’s threatened and endangered plant species are found in Hawaii. Hawaii is known as the endangered species capital of the world, with 90 percent of the 1,400 Hawaiian endemic plant species are found nowhere else in the world accor...

  Journal of Agriculture Research -  Juniper Publishers   I have had the privilege of being a senior (or “full”) professor since 1991, who has served as a department head at three different universities and edited, guest edited, or associate edited nine journals in sociology, agriculture, political and military sociology, statistics, food, and technology. I recently found that in the last two years I have been cited by about 1200 scholars in over 80 countries, in about 50 different subject areas. Broadened scholarly communication networks have given all of us a greatly expanded opportunity to consider the theories and methodologies adopted by authors from around the world and across a considerable number of disciplines. Regrettably, while we, as members of a curious time, have been given the potential opportunity for tremendous increases in output or scholarly “yield,” I am afraid the quality of theory and methodological applications have been waylaid, and cu...

  Journal of Agriculture Research -  Juniper Publishers The experiments were conducted in randomized blocks, arranged in subdivide parcels scheme, the main factor is the presence and absence of the surrounding sorghum band and in the sub parcels of the soil cover (spontaneous vegetation, millet, goosegrass and sorghum) and the conventional (without cover), with four repetitions. The evaluated variables were biomass production of cover crops, composition rate, weed elimination, pest population variants, natural enemies and lettuce production. The millet showed lower rate of decomposition and longer half-life. The sorghum indicated higher litterfall and greater efficiency in weed elimination during the cycles. The predominant pests in the area were whitefly and thripes, regardless of the management used. The presence of the sorghum-surrounding band provided an increase of the natural enemies, mainly in the lettuce second cycle. As well as the increase of lettuce pro...