A Study on Emerging Methods and Ways in Agricultural Sciences: With Reference to Organic Farming

Agricultural Sciences is an Applied Science but has its touch with social science due to its nature. It uses various kinds of tools, techniques, procedure, methods, principles of science; that is responsible for the cultivation of plants, crops, vegetables, livestock as well as animals. Agriculture is dedicated to the sedentary human civilization and by this people can meet their food demand. As far as the history of agriculture it is noted that agriculture as a concept emerged thousands of years before about 105,000 years ago and regarding the nascent farmers, it was about 11,500 years ago. Initially, animals were not considered within this but gradually various animals such as pigs, sheep and cattle became part of agricultural sciences since 10, 000 years ago. Farming normally considered as the cultivation in a small area whereas Agriculture is treated for a large area with huge place and expenditure. In today’s context, about 11 regions of the world are cultivating commercially. Agriculture as an interdisciplinary field is concerned with various disciplines and subjects; and this trend is growing rapidly. There are diverse areas and emerging nomenclatures emerged in Agriculture viz. Chemical Agriculture, Green revolution & Agriculture, Genetic engineering-based Agriculture, Organic Agriculture /Farming, Corporate Agriculture /Farming, Vertical Farming /Agriculture, etc. This paper is theoretical and empirical in nature. It analyzed various aspects of agriculture with special reference to the aspects, features, role, and emergence of three emerging types of agriculture viz. Organic Agriculture.

Corporate Agriculture and the Exploitation of Life in Portal 2

This article examines the agricultural dimensions of Portal 2 and two of its key paratexts, arguing that the game’s potato motif functions as a satire of industrial agricultural practice, dramatizing both the vastness of corporate power and the plight of its silenced victims. I argue for an understanding of the potato as a biotechnological product, drawing from a range of contemporary and historical texts to establish its role in a long history of exploitation and social inequality. These aspects enable the game’s establishment of a cohesive narrative in which potato science originates Aperture Science’s ascent and growing corruption, in a trajectory that culminates in its brutal exploitation of human test subjects. The game also celebrates rebellion against that corruption through the dynamics of gameplay and the development of its main character as a rival biological power.

Latin American Migrations to the U.S. Heartland

Responding to inaccuracies concerning Latino immigrants in the United States as well as an anti-immigrant strain in the American psyche, this book examines the movement of the Latin American labor force to the central states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa. Chapters look at the outside factors that affect migration including corporate agriculture, technology, globalization, and government, as well as factors that have attracted Latin Americans to the Heartland including religion, strong family values, hard work, farming, and cowboy culture. Several chapters also point to hostile neoliberal policy reforms that have made it difficult for Latino Americans to find social and economic stability. The book seeks to reveal the many ways in which identities, economies, and geographies are changing as Latin Americans adjust to their new homes, jobs, and communities.

The Connection of Capital Leverage and Profitability by the Corporate Agriculture Enterprises

The analysis of capital system of agricultural corporations is a key issue of economics and the effect of it's fluctuation can be observed on several fields of the life of corporations.It influencesfor example the assets-, financial- and income situation of the enterprises.The aim of this study is to analyse the connection between capital structure and profitability in order to reveal sucha ratio for the capital leverage and liabilities, by which it can say, to that connect the profit or loss. By the analyse get activity- and size specified results.With the empyrical results I determine the quantile point between the profitable or the non profitable operating.

Participatory maize breeding in Portugal. A case study

Participatory maize breeding (PMB) was initiated in Portugal in 1984 by Dr. Silas Pêgo at Sousa Valley. The VASO project was intended to answer the problem facing small farmers, i.e. yield increasing without losing the parameters defined by farmers in polycropping systems maintaining the quality traits under a sustainable agriculture. This model is based on the Integrant Philosophy, which contrasts with the Productivist Philosophy. The Integrant Philosophy is intended to fit a multicrop agricultural system that corporate agriculture does not reach due to incipient market conditions. The present document intends to be a contribution to: 1) the study of 20 years of VASO; 2) methods used in PMB for Portuguese open-pollinated maize varieties and 3) present research.