• Livestock manure management practices in rural households in Tapanuli Utara regency of North Sumatra 

  Roubík, H.; Mazancová, J.; Situmeang, R.C.; Brunerová, A.; Simatupang, T.M. (2017)

  Livestock manure management is a big challenge for low income economies including the region of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Currently, low percentages of manure managed cause illegal disposals, and negative impacts on ...

• Quality evaluation of local apple varieties: physicochemical and antioxidant proprieties at harvest and after cold storage 

  Bartolini, S.; Ducci, E. (2017)

  A wide apple germplasm is present in Italy in which numerous local genotypes of specific cultivation environment have to be still evaluated for fruit quality attributes. This is the case of a long-established fruit area ...

• Soil organic carbon in long–term experiments: comparative analysis in Slovakia and Serbia 

  Macák, M.; Đalović, I.; Turan, J.; Šeremešić, S.; Tyr, S.; Milošev, D.; Kulina, M. (2017)

  Soil organic carbon plays an important role in a long-term agroecosystem productivity, in the global C cycle, maintaining a soil nutrient pool and improving its availability. The objective of this study is the assess the ...

• Growth development and ecology of midterm hybrid aspen and silver birch plantations on former agricultural lands 

  Lutter, Reimo (Eesti Maaülikool, 2017)

  During the recent decades, a novel land-use system called “short-rotation plantation forestry” has steadily expanded from southern regions to northern Europe. This tendency is mainly driven by the increasing demand for ...

• The advantage of Decision Support System for managing spring barley disease in Estonia 

  Sooväli, Pille; Koppel, Mati; Lauringson, Enn; Talgre, Liina (2017)

  A Decision Support System (DSS) I - Taimekaitse focusing on use of timely applied and reduced fungicide rates in control of cereal diseases has been tested in field trials since 2003 . We compared the ...

• Effect of flame weed control on various weed species at various developmental stages 

  Mojžiš, M.; Vitázek, I.; Klúčik, J. (2017)

  Physical methods of weed control as solarization, mulching, use of electricity, steam and flame are now an alternative in the organically grown crop. Flame weeder already has a wide range of practical use , particularly ...

• Determination of mechanical properties of poppy waste pellets 

  Kažimírová, V.; Kubík, Ľ; Chrastina, J.; Giertl, T. (2017)

  The work deals with evaluation of mechanical properties three types of pellet samples produced fro m poppy waste. The pellets were submitted to compressive loading. The compressive loading curves ...

• Qualitative classification of mulchers 

  Hnilica, R.; Kotus, M.; Jankovský, M.; Hnilicová, M.; Dado, M. (2017)

  Mulchers are helpful in forest establishment and tending. Numerous mulchers are available, so buyers can become disoriented when choosing one. This paper was aimed at creating a classification of mulchers based on the ...

• Instrumental and sensory evaluation of seven apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) cultivars under organic cultivation in Sicily 

  Farina, V.; Gianguzzi, G.; Mazzaglia, A.; Sortino, G. (2017)

  In this trial we examined the quality of 7 clones belonging to more diffused apple polyclonal varietal groups, using chemical/physical and sensory analyses during two consecutive years. Galaxy, and their ameliorative clones ...

• Change in Estonian natural resource use: the case of wild food plants 

  Kalle, Raivo (Eesti Maaülikool, 2017)

  The use of wild food plants is one example of the importance of biocultural diversity. Wild food plants are, in the context of this work, those plants that grow without the direct intentional help (cultivation or management) ...

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