Purpose: To improve robustness of a dairy supply chain (SC) against corruption, the purpose of this paper is to propose a systemic model of a corruption impacted dairy SC, exposing relationships among SC operations, risks and the impact of corruption. Design/methodology/approach: Cases from the...

Purpose: This paper examines the establishment of supply chain robustness against corruption by utilizing risk interactions. Design/methodology/approach: Based on empirical results from the New Zealand dairy industry, a system dynamics model is established to explore the underlying...

The traditional studies on drought disaster risk were based on the ground point data, which were unable to realize the continuity of space and the timeliness. It is shown that the monitoring and evaluation precision on drought were reduced significantly. However, remote sensing data in adequate...

The increasing population, water scarcity, and labor cost demand more high-yield, water-saving, and efficient maize production. Grain mechanical harvesting, the quality of which is mainly influenced by grain moisture content, can improve the efficiency and decrease the harvest cost of maize...

A soil column experiment was conducted to study the water and salt redistribution in a coastal saline soil under infiltration of saline ice meltwater. Four salinity levels (0, 5000, 10,000, and 15,000 mg l-1 diluted seawater) and three volumes (1800, 2700, and 3600 ml) of source water were...

This paper considers the two-echelon supply chain system which consists of single agricultural producers and retailers, and analyzes the impact of sharing ratio on the option ordering quantity, and retailers and producers' expected profits. Studies have shown that in the case of...