Trends in Agricultural Science with Special Reference to Research and Development in the Potato Sector

Struik, P.C.

doi:10.1007/s11540-006-9000-7

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“…The main challenge is the lack of information and visibility of the supply and demand. However, not only the farmers but also the stakeholders within the supply chain, including Input suppliers, Logistic Suppliers, Exporters, and Policymakers (Struik, 2006;Ortiz et al, 2013;Beumer & Edelenbosch, 2019), even face issues due to the lack of information at the time of decision making. Hence, targeting the selected stakeholders in Sri Lankan potato cultivation, a closed-loop supply chain model was designed to increase visibility by providing real-time information to reduce wastage.…”

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Designing a closed-loop information flow model in bridging the market information gap among agriculture stakeholders in Sri Lanka

Mallikaarachchi

Samaraweera

Walisadeera

et al. 2022

J. Natn. Sci. Foundation Sri Lanka

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The stakeholders in the agriculture domain need agricultural information and relevant knowledge to make informed decisions at various stages of the crop life cycle. Coordination failures among the stakeholders in the agriculture sector result in the inability to provide accurate, timely, and actionable information. As a result, the agriculture sector faces several challenges, such as oversupply, undersupply and crop wastage. The existing digital agriculture eco-system can gather data produced by different stakeholders more frequently and accurately. However, the data collected from various stakeholders should be analyzed and forecasted to deliver the required knowledge to make more informed and appropriate decisions. This study was carried out to propose a 'Closedloop information flow model' to provide forecasted demand and supply to create better coordination among stakeholders. Different prototypes were designed to deliver forecasted demand and supply information for major stakeholders in the agriculture sector. Initially, farmers, input suppliers, and logistic suppliers were selected in this study to expand to other stakeholders in the future. The prediction model was developed and evaluated according to stakeholder requirements by analyzing the actual and predicted data. The existing 'Govi-Nena' mobile-based farmer application was refined to provide supply and demand information for farmers. Separate web dashboards were designed to deliver the required information to other stakeholders such as input suppliers and logistic suppliers. Designed prototypes will be evaluated with the stakeholders for further improvements. The proposed Closedloop information flow model for forecasted demand and supply will bridge the market information gap among stakeholders.Thus, it will reduce the coordination failures in the Sri Lankan agriculture sector while increasing transparency in making informed decisions.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Designing a closed-loop information flow model in bridging the market information gap among agriculture stakeholders in Sri Lanka

Mallikaarachchi

Samaraweera

Walisadeera

et al. 2022

J. Natn. Sci. Foundation Sri Lanka

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“…Until now, such reflexive commitments have not been required of agriscience research and development. It is worth remembering that the Green Revolution, in both its ambitions and methods, was for some time uncontroversial; agriculture was to be intensified and productivity per unit of land or labour increased (Struik 2006). Without doubt, this project, whose technological innovations were vigorously promoted by governments, companies and foundations around the world (Evenson and Gollin 2003), was phenomenally successful across vast scales.…”

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Aquaponics for the Anthropocene: Towards a ‘Sustainability First’ Agenda

Gott

Morgenstern

Turnšek

2019

Aquaponics Food Production Systems

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The Anthropocene' has emerged as a unique moment in earth history where humanity recognises its devastating capacity to destabilise the planetary processes upon which it depends. Modern agriculture plays a central role in this problematic. Food production innovations are needed that exceed traditional paradigms of the Green Revolution whilst at the same time are able to acknowledge the complexity arising from the sustainability and food security issues that mark our times. Aquaponics is one technological innovation that promises to contribute much towards these imperatives. But this emergent field is in an early stage that is characterised by limited resources, market uncertainty, institutional resistance and high risks of failure-a developmental environment where hype prevails over demonstrated outcomes. Given this situation, the aquaponics research community potentially holds an important place in the development path of this technology. But the field needs to craft a coherent and viable vision for this technology that can move beyond misplaced techno-optimist accounts. Turning to sustainability science and STS research, we discuss the urgent need to develop what we call a 'critical sustainability knowledge' for aquaponics, giving pointers for possible ways forward, which include (1) expanding aquaponic research into an interdisciplinary research domain, (2) opening research up to participatory approaches in real-world contexts and (3) pursuing a solution-oriented approach for sustainability and food security outcomes.

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“…From the end of the Second World War until about 1980, agricultural research in the developed world focused on increasing productivity per unit of land or labour, whereas from 1980 until 2000 that focus shifted to limiting the ecological footprint of agriculture [4]. During the latter period, agriculture became unpopular among donors and policy-makers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deconstructing and unpacking scientific controversies in intensification and sustainability: why the tensions in concepts and values?

Struik¹,

Kuyper

Brussaard

et al. 2014

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Trends in Agricultural Science with Special Reference to Research and Development in the Potato Sector

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Designing a closed-loop information flow model in bridging the market information gap among agriculture stakeholders in Sri Lanka

Designing a closed-loop information flow model in bridging the market information gap among agriculture stakeholders in Sri Lanka

Aquaponics for the Anthropocene: Towards a ‘Sustainability First’ Agenda

Deconstructing and unpacking scientific controversies in intensification and sustainability: why the tensions in concepts and values?

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