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ICT adoption in developing countries: perspectives from small‐scale agribusinesses

Aleke, Bartholomew; Ojiako, Udechukwu; Wainwright, David W. - In: Journal of Enterprise Information Management 24 (2011) 1, pp. 68-84

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically examine how social augmented parameters impact on the effective adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) by small‐scale agribusinesses operating in Southeast Nigeria. The relevance of incorporating social imperatives in...

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Institutional inefficiency: small farms starve India’s economy

Watts, Tyler; Woodruff, Molly - In: Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy 6 (2017) 2, pp. 206-223

organization of agriculture, comparing agricultural development in the USA and India, with a focus on changes in farm size over … economies in agriculture through the application of capital and technology. In contrast, land reforms in India, especially land … ceilings that limit farm size, have stunted productivity growth in agriculture by limiting achievement of scale economies and …

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Opinion of the zakat recipients on their food security: a case study on Bangladesh

Tanvir Mahmud, Kazi; Kabir Hassan, M.; Ferdous Alam, Md.; … - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 7 (2014) 3, pp. 333-345

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of zakat fund on the food expenditure of the households to assess the impact of zakat fund on the agricultural production of the households and to assess the opinion of the zakat recipients on food security status under zakat program....

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Agriculture - a challenge to robotic science

Marchant, John - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 25 (1998) 5

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Robot sheepdog is ducks' best friend

In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 25 (1998) 6

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Robots come out of the factories and into the fields

In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 26 (1999) 4

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The Pransky interview: Tony (Harvey) Koselka, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Vision Robotics Corporation

Pransky, Joanne - In: Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics … 47 (2020) 2, pp. 147-151

Purpose The following paper is a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experience of a robotic industry engineer-turned-innovator regarding the challenges of bringing technological...

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Development of an environment characterization methodology for optimal design of an agricultural robot

Bloch, Victor; Bechar, Avital; Degani, Amir - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 44 (2017) 1, pp. 94-103

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe a methodology for characterization of the robot environment to help solve such problem as designing an optimal agricultural robot for a specific agricultural task. Design/methodology/approach Defining and characterizing a task is a crucial step in...

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Beyond imaging: drones for physical applications

Bogue, Robert - In: Industrial Robot: the international journal of robotics … 50 (2023) 4, pp. 557-561

Purpose This paper aims to illustrate the growing role of drones in applications involving physical tasks. Design/methodology/approach Following a short introduction, this first provides a brief introduction to drone technology. It then describes and discusses products and applications involving...

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Robots poised to revolutionise agriculture

Bogue, Robert - In: Industrial Robot: An International Journal 43 (2016) 5, pp. 450-456

Purpose This paper aims to provide details of a number of recent and significant agricultural robot research and development activities. Design/methodology/approach Following an introduction, this first provides a brief overview of agricultural robot research. It then discusses a number of...

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