PurposeThe aim of this study is to identify and prioritize a list of key digitization enablers that can improve supply chain management (SCM). SCM is an important driver for organization's competitive advantage. The fierce competition in the market has forced companies ...

Water is scarce resource in Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia and is major limiting factor for crop production. The field experiment was conducted in 2018 at Melkasa Agricultural Research Center during the off-season to identify irrigation method and irrigation applicatio...

The ongoing transition to a low-carbon, sustainable forest-based economy, and the adoption of circular bioeconomy principles in the wood-processing industry is associated with the optimization of natural resources, application of environmentally sustainable production t...

Abstract The fourth industrial revolution transforms the way we approach the existing traditional systems. Agriculture is one of the crucial areas where the transformation showed its effects. With the unstoppable growth of the world population, agricultural production i...

Coordination of the production and distribution activities represents a significant opportunity to cut costs and limit waste in the food supply chains. In this paper, we propose two mathematical models. The first one aims to integrate the harvesting, storage, and distri...

Abstract Background Forest management planning involves deciding which silvicultural treatment should be applied to each stand and at what time to best meet the objectives established for the forest. For this, many mathematical formulations have been proposed, both with...

To solve the financing problem of the food producers, we consider a two-echelon contract food supply chain composed of a family farm with capital constraints and a food processing enterprise. With no capital constraints as the benchmark model, we analyze optimal decisio...

Based on the Malmquist-DEA Modeling and drawing on the data from 12 cities in Hubei, a central province of China, this paper measures the total factor productivity (TFP) of agricultural management as well as technological change (TC) and technical efficiency change (EC)...

Abstract With the rapid development of vegetable planting industry, a large amount of vegetable cultivation has helped many farmers get rid of poverty, and China has become the world’s largest vegetable growing country. In the process of planting vegetables, farmers may...

Supported by the agricultural technology, the intelligent agricultural development is flourishing. However, due to the high technology cost and investment risk, intelligent agriculture in China is still in the exploration stage. This article designs the appropriate cost...