Due to the combined effect of biotic and abiotic constraints, rising population pressure, and inelastic demand in the crop and horticulture sector, Bangladesh has had to adopt heavily subsidized and intensified fertilizer policies to enhance crop productivity, achieve and sustain self-sufficiency in food production, and food security provision. Although the initiative has played a vital role in boosting production, it has also invigorated the unbalanced amount of fertilizer application practices raising questions about maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services while feeding the nation's population. Further research in this area must thus be applied to monitor and improve this sector.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReturning sloping farmland (>25°) to forest/grassland (RFTF) is an effective ecological measure for soil and water conservation. However, changes in nutrient cycles and green development are still unclear. Ningxia, in Northwestern China, began to implement RFTF in 2000.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
October 2018
This study tested whether information on positive food additives and negative food additives had an effect on consumers' risk perception and their willingness to accept (WTA) food with additives. Consumers' WTA was examined via a random th-price auction of exchanging freshly squeezed orange juice without additives for orange juice with additives. Results show that consumers' WTA differs with the order in which information was provided.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To carry out a nationwide epidemiologic survey on the neonates in urban hospitals with an attempt to understand the disease spectrum and treatment outcomes of hospitalized neonates in China.
Methods: The clinical data of 43,289 hospitalized neonates from 86 hospitals in 47 Chinese cities (22 provinces) between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2005 were retrospectively analyzed.
Results: The male:female ratio was 1.