The Ukraine wheat crisis of 1972, a product of low winter snow levels and temperatures coupled with summer drought and high temperatures, triggered disruptions in the world cereal market and a tripling of wheat prices during an otherwise steady half-century decline in prices following the Second Wo...
Wearable sensors are increasingly used to monitor environmental pollution. This development is stimulated by research in four fields of highest relevance: urbanization, climate change, digitalization, as well as innovations in hardware development. Urbanization is leading to an increase in traffic and cons...
The government must import 1.06 million tons of diesel and spend USD 280 million in annual subsidies to make irrigation more affordable. More- over, pumps operated via electricity consume a significant amount of energy. Currently, 0.33 million electric pumps are in operation, consuming 1500 MW of...
The same source claims that despite the seemingly insignificant effect of reducing the specific fuel consumption, in financial terms, this leads to annual savings of more than $160 million in prices at the time of publication [2]. On the other hand, the excessive reduction of the RC can ...