scholarly journals The evolving nature of work in the Agri-foodstuffs Sector. The impact of Precision Agriculture and the necessity of acquiring new skills through Lifelong Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Miltiadis Staboulis ◽  
Antonios Kostas
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Production Management ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Production ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Qualitative Focus Groups ◽  
The Impact

The article focuses on the necessity of acquiring a combination of “vertical” and “horizontal” skills, which are of vital importance in the new production management processes and work in the Agri-foodstuffs sector, so as to ensure an efficient relationship between the human resources and the current technological applications. The aim of this paper is to research and pinpoint the opportunities and weaknesses of the required new skills in relation to new technologies in the wider context of the agrifood labour market, and to which extent these skills can feasibly be developed through Lifelong Learning Educational Programmes. The research method of this paper is a qualitative “focus groups” interview method.

scholarly journals Sustainable Supply Chains with Blockchain, IoT and RFID: A Simulation on Order Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6372
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Varriale ◽  
Antonello Cammarano ◽  
Francesca Michelino ◽  
Mauro Caputo
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chains ◽  
Time Performance ◽  
Order Management ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The digital transformation of supply chains should revolutionize entire management processes and improve various aspects of sustainability. In particular, the plans of Industry 4.0 aim towards a digitization of several procedures by exploiting emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, RFID and blockchain. The purpose of this study is to highlight how order and disruption events processes can be improved with the adoption of emerging technologies and how this reflects on the improvement of sustainability aspects. The study is based on the comparison of two simulation scenarios between three actors in the cheese supply chain. In particular, a first traditional scenario “as is” is simulated without the use of new technologies and is compared to a second scenario “to be” that adopts IoT, RFID and blockchain. The results show an improvement in time performance for managing both perfect and non-compliant orders. The developed framework highlights the impact of new technologies on sustainability aspects, showing further managerial implications.

scholarly journals US Agriculture in the Past 30 Years: Structural Changes

2021 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Alla Korotkikh
Keyword(s):  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Land Use Pattern ◽  
The Past ◽  
Large Farms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Additional Labor

Over the past 30 years, a series of inter-related changes in land-use pattern, business arrangements, farm structure, and production practices combined to expand output without increasing the use of total inputs. Moreover, by allowing farmers to increase U.S. agricultural production through increased productivity instead of expanded land and chemical use, many of these innovations helped to limit the impact of agricultural production on the environment. Meanwhile, new technologies (such as precision agriculture) have required additional labor use, a differentiated approach to the specialization of production, and stimulated the concentration of resources, capital and efforts on the production of certain products, which allowed some farmers to increase the size of their operations. As a result, the number of large farms increased 8 times, and their share in the country's agricultural production increased to 62%. Although production has shifted dramatically to larger farms, 97 percent of all farms remain family farms, generating 82 percent of the total value of U.S. agricultural production.  

THE IMPACT OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN PROMOTING LIFELONG LEARNING

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Cerezuela ◽  
Alfredo Moreno ◽  
Ester Srougi ◽  
Francisca Collado
Keyword(s):  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Challenges and limtations of site specific crop production applications of wheat and maize

2012 ◽  
pp. 101-104
Author(s):  
István Balla ◽  
Ákos Tarnawa ◽  
Csaba Horváth ◽  
Judit Kis ◽  
Márton Jolánkai
Keyword(s):  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Plant Density ◽  
Triticum Aestivum L ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Small Plot ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
The Impact

The development and implementation of precision agriculture or site-specific farming has been made possible by combining the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Site specific agronomic applications are of high importance concerning the efficiency of management in crop production as well as the protection and maintenance of environment and nature. Precision crop production management techniques were applied at four locations to evaluate their impact on small plot units sown by wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and maize (Zea mays L.) in a Hungarian national case study. The results obtained suggest the applicability of the site specific management techniques, however the crops studied responded in a different way concerning the impact of applications. Maize had a stronger response regarding grain yield and weed canopy. Wheat was responding better than maize concerning plant density and protein content performance.

scholarly journals Review of Some Applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technology in the Resource-Rich Country

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 10171
Author(s):  
Ravil Mukhamediev ◽  
Adilkhan Symagulov ◽  
Yan Kuchin ◽  
Elena Zaitseva ◽  
Alma Bekbotayeva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Economic Effect ◽  
Traffic Monitoring ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Engineering Structures ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
The Impact

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various spheres of human activity is a promising direction for countries with very different types of economies. This statement refers to resource-rich economies as well. The peculiarities of such countries are associated with the dependence on resource prices since their economies present low diversification. Therefore, the employment of new technologies is one of the ways of increasing the sustainability of such economy development. In this context, the use of UAVs is a prospect direction, since they are relatively cheap, reliable, and their use does not require a high-tech background. The most common use of UAVs is associated with various types of monitoring tasks. In addition, UAVs can be used for organizing communication, search, cargo delivery, field processing, etc. Using additional elements of artificial intelligence (AI) together with UAVs helps to solve the problems in automatic or semi-automatic mode. Such UAV is named intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle technology (IUAVT), and its employment allows increasing the UAV-based technology efficiency. However, in order to adapt IUAVT in the sectors of economy, it is necessary to overcome a range of limitations. The research is devoted to the analysis of opportunities and obstacles to the adaptation of IUAVT in the economy. The possible economic effect is estimated for Kazakhstan as one of the resource-rich countries. The review consists of three main parts. The first part describes the IUAVT application areas and the tasks it can solve. The following areas of application are considered: precision agriculture, the hazardous geophysical processes monitoring, environmental pollution monitoring, exploration of minerals, wild animals monitoring, technical and engineering structures monitoring, and traffic monitoring. The economic potential is estimated by the areas of application of IUAVT in Kazakhstan. The second part contains the review of the technical, legal, and software-algorithmic limitations of IUAVT and modern approaches aimed at overcoming these limitations. The third part—discussion—comprises the consideration of the impact of these limitations and unsolved tasks of the IUAVT employment in the areas of activity under consideration, and assessment of the overall economic effect.

scholarly journals Twitter como instrumento para fomentar la participación del profesorado en los cursos formativos

2018 ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Elena Berrón Ruiz ◽  
María Victoria Régil López
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Training Center ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Made In

The increasing incorporation of new technologies in the education system demands a deep revision in the management processes of the training centers, improving their presence in social networks. The qualitative research presented in this article presents a case study carried out at the Training Center of Teachers and Educational Innovation of Avila (Spain) and pursues two objectives: the first consists in value the usefulness of different strategies to boost and disseminate the training courses through Twitter, while the second seeks to analyze the impact that such dissemination has been on the participation of teachers. The results show that the innovations introduced in the dynamization have aroused the interest of the teachers, increasing the interactions made in the social network and producing a remarkable rise of their participation in the courses.

scholarly journals Assessing the Effectiveness of Precision Agriculture Management Systems in Mediterranean Small Farms

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luís Loures ◽  
Alejandro Chamizo ◽  
Paulo Ferreira ◽  
Ana Loures ◽  
Rui Castanho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
World Population ◽  
Small Farms ◽  
The Impact

While the world population continues to grow, increasing the need to produce more and better-quality food, climate change, urban growth and unsustainable agricultural practices accelerate the loss of available arable land, compromising the sustainability of agricultural lands both in terms of productivity and environmental resilience, and causing serious problems for the production-consumption balance. This scenario highlights the urgent need for agricultural modernization as a crucial step to face forthcoming difficulties. Precision agriculture techniques appear as a feasible option to help solve these problems. However, their use needs to be reinvented and tested according to different parameters, in order to define both the environmental and the economic impact of these new technologies not only on agricultural production, but also on agricultural sustainability. This paper intends, therefore, to contribute to a better understanding of the impact of precision agriculture through the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)/remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) techniques in small Mediterranean farms. We present specific data obtained through the application of the aforementioned techniques in three farms located along the Portuguese-Spanish border, considering three parameters (seeding failure, differentiated irrigation and differentiated fertilization) in order to determine not only the ecological benefits of these methods, but also their economic and productivity aspects. The obtained results, based on these methods, highlight the fact that an efficient combination of UAV/RPAS and NDVI techniques allows for important economic savings in productivity factors, thus promoting a sustainable agriculture both in ecological and economic terms. Additionally, contrary to what is generally defended, even in small farms, as the ones assessed in this study (less than 50 ha), the costs associated with the application of the aforementioned precision agriculture processes are largely surpassed by the economic gains achieved with their application, regardless of the notorious environmental benefits introduced by the reduction of crucial production inputs as water and fertilizers.

scholarly journals An Assay On The Impact of Industry 4.0 in The Operations Area

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Roberto Ramos de Morais ◽  
Rogério Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Means Of Production

Recent technological innovations in the means of production, product development and distribution materials are promoting big changes in the productive sector. This set of innovations is called Industry 4.0. The purpose of this article is to study the main aspects of Industry 4.0 and analyze their impact on the means of production of manufactured goods and the supply chain. Therefore, it uses bibliographic references relating to the fourth industrial revolution (SCHWAB, 2009), Industry 4.0 (KOCH, 2014) and production management (Slack, 2009). Considerations achieved in this study will form the basis for future research on the developments of new technologies in society.

scholarly journals The expansion of limits of concentration of agricultural production in the context of implementation of the technologies of precision dairy husbandry

2021 ◽  
pp. 152-159
Author(s):  
Semen Alekseevich Burda ◽  
Tat'yana Petrovna Baranovskaya ◽  
Aleksei Grigor'evich Burda
Keyword(s):  
Precision Agriculture ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Dairy Production ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
The Impact

The subject of this research is the economic relations arising in the context of implementation of modern technologies of precise husbandry and concentration of dairy production. The technologies of precision husbandry, which are based on the use of modern information technologies, gain popularity among the leading manufacturers. Dairy husbandry implements the automated herd management systems that collect information on the condition of each individual animal unit virtually in real time mode, which elevates the information support of managing production and technological process on a whole new level. Digitalization of the dairy husbandry industry and the processes of concentration of dairy production are closely related and require meticulous examination. The novelty of this research lies in studying the mutual influence of implementation of precision husbandry technologies and the processes of concentration of dairy production. The conclusion is made that the technologies of precision husbandry raise the upper limit of concentration in dairy husbandry, improve the manageability of production and technological processes, and ensure veterinary and ecological control. The article explores the impact of new technologies upon the processes of concentration of dairy production, substantiates the pattern of increase in the levels of concentration of dairy production, and demonstrates the unevenness of the levels of concentration of dairy production in the regions of the Russian Federation. The author provides the examples of the high levels of concentration of production in dairy husbandry with brief monographic descriptions, reflects the possible socioeconomic transformations in rural areas and structural shifts in the agrarian economy associated with the implementation of technologies of precision agriculture.

Is technological change a devourer of jobs?

2017 ◽  
pp. 111-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kapeliushnikov
Keyword(s):  
Technological Change ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Employment Growth ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Technological Unemployment ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Task Sets ◽  
The Impact

The paper provides a critical analysis of the idea of technological unemployment. The overview of the existing literature on the employment effects of technological change shows that on the micro-level there exists strong and positive relationship between innovations and employment growth in firms; on the sectoral level this correlation becomes ambiguous; on the macro-level the impact of new technologies seems to be positive or neutral. This implies that fears of explosive growth of technological unemployment in the foreseeable future are exaggerated. Our analysis further suggests that new technologies affect mostly the structure of employment rather than its level. Additionally we argue that automation and digitalisation would change mostly task sets within particular occupations rather than distribution of workers by occupations.

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