Abstract
Rice is a fundamental component of food security in Nepal, yet conventional seedling transplanted rice systems face mounting pressures from labor shortages, water scarcity, and environmental degradation. This study critically examines the prospects and constraints of both dry and wet direct seeded rice (DSR) as a sustainable alternative for Nepalese agriculture. Synthesizing current research, the analysis reveals that direct seeding significantly reduces water and labor inputs, shortens crop duration, improves soil health, and enhances profitability through lower production costs, while maintaining comparable yields under optimized management. Furthermore, it offers important environmental benefits by reducing methane emissions and conserving soil structure. However, successful adoption requires overcoming challenges such as severe weed infestation, increased vulnerability to pests and diseases, and potential yield loses, if management practices are inadequate. Key interventions, including the selection of vigorous cultivars, precise water and nutrient management, integrated weed control, seed priming, and mulching, are critical to maximizing the system's potential. Despite inherent challenges, the strategic implementation of direct-seeded rice could play a transformative role in enhancing national rice self-sufficiency, increasing resilience against aberrant climate change, and promoting resource-efficient farming. The study concludes that with supportive policies, farmer training, and adaptive research, direct-seeded rice presents a viable pathway toward more sustainable, profitable, and climate-resilient rice production in Nepal.
Keywords
Climate resilient agriculture Crop management Mitigation Soil nutrients management Sustainable rice production
Ethical Statement
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The authors didn’t receive any direct funding from individuals or institutions for preparing this manuscript.
Thanks
The authors extend their sincere gratitude to the colleagues and teachers for encouraging and continuously helping us by reviewing it and giving us genuine feedbacks.
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Details
| Primary Language | English |
|---|---|
| Subjects | Agronomy, Cereals and Legumes |
| Journal Section | Review |
| Authors | |
| Submission Date | April 28, 2025 |
| Acceptance Date | June 18, 2025 |
| Publication Date | February 8, 2026 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.53663/turjfas.1685471 |
| IZ | https://izlik.org/JA72MD38BC |
| Published in Issue | Year 2026 Volume: 8 Issue: 1 |
Aim & Scope
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences (TURJFAS) is an unbiased, Open Access, and independent international double-blinded peer-review scientific journal.
TURJFAS publishes academic studies related to Food and Agriculture sciences since June 2019.
Academic studies written in English are published in journal.
TURJFAS publishes Biannually (June and December).
A Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number is assigned for each article accepted to be published in TURJFAS, starting from December 2019.
All submissions are screened by plagiarism detection software (below 20% via IThenticate).
The scope of the journal includes agricultural economics, animal science, biosystems engineering, field crops, horticulture, plant physiology, postharvest biology and technology, ornamental, biochemistry, plant protection, soil science and plant nutrition from agriculture sciences subjects, and food technology, food composition, food industry, food biochemistry, food processing, from food sciences subjects. Papers featuring animal trials are outside the scope of the journal and will not be considered for publication.
Research may be published as original research articles, reviews, short communications and technical notes, according to subject matter and presentation. Editor assignment will be made by the Editor in, but author guidance is appreciated. Only original papers will be considered. Manuscripts are submitted for review with the understanding that the same work has not been copyrighted, published, or submitted for publication elsewhere.
Author Guidelines
Ethical Principles
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences (TURJFAS) is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and expects all parties (authors, referees, editors and publisher) in the publishing process to bear the following ethical responsibilities.
In keeping with its commitment to best practices in academic publishing, TURJFAS strongly supports and adheres to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publication adopted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences utilises the process flow sheets developed by COPE in collaboration with Springer Nature when dealing with cases of fraudulent manipulation of the publication process.
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and expects all parties (authors, referees, editors and publisher) in the publishing process to bear the following ethical responsibilities.
Authors’ Responsibilities
The persons who participate in the design of studies, data collection or the analysis or interpretation of the data in a study, or meaningfully contribute to arrangement of the content, are described as authors. Only people who meet these criteria can be included in the list of authors of a paper.
Before you undertake any research you should familiarize yourself with the full meaning and application of ethics in research. There are numerous resources available, including the following
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Manuscript Structure
There are no strict formatting requirements but all manuscripts must contain the essential elements needed to convey your manuscript, for example Tittle, Abstract, Keywords, Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Conclusions, Artwork and Tables with Captions.
Title: The title of manuscript should contain short and illustrative not exceeding twenty words.
Abstract: A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
Keywords: Immediately after the abstract, this section should be contain maximum of 6 keywords in alphabetical order.
Subdivision-numbered sections
Divide your article into clearly defined and numbered sections. Subsections should be numbered 1.1 (then 1.1.1, 1.1.2, ...), 1.2, etc. (the abstract is not included in section numbering). Use this numbering also for internal cross-referencing: do not just refer to 'the text'. Any subsection may be given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own separate line.
Introduction
State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Material(s) and methods
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Results
Results should be clear and concise.
Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature. Results and Discussion should be two separate sections.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
References
Where applicable, author(s) name(s), journal title/book title, chapter title/article title, year of publication, journal name, volume number/book chapter and the article number or pagination must be present. Use of DOI is highly encouraged. Note that missing data will be highlighted at proof stage for the author to correct. If you do wish to format the references yourself, they should be arranged according to the following examples:
Text:
All citations in the text should refer to:
1. Single author: the author's name (without initials, unless there is ambiguity) and the year of publication;
2. Two authors: both authors' names and the year of publication;
3. Three or more authors: first author's name followed by 'et al.' and the year of publication.
Citations may be made directly (or parenthetically). Groups of references can be listed either first alphabetically, then chronologically, or vice versa.
Examples: as demonstrated (Sengül, 2015; Demir, 2017), (Bilge and Yildiz, 2017; Yilmaz et al., 2018) … Thomson (2016) reported as ….. Ozturk and Bulut (2018) have recently repoted …… Hassanpour et al. (2010) have recently shown …….
List:
References should be arranged first alphabetically and then further sorted chronologically if necessary. More than one reference from the same author(s) in the same year must be identified by the letters 'a', 'b', 'c', etc., placed after the year of publication.
Examples: (According to: APA)
Reference to a journal publication:
Aglar, E., Ozturk, B., Guler, S.K., Karakaya, O., Uzun, S., & Saracoglu, O. (2017). Effect of modified atmosphere packaging and ‘Parka’ treatments on fruit quality characteristics of sweet cherry fruits (Prunus avium L. ‘0900 Ziraat’) during cold storage and shelf life. Sci. Hortic. 222, 162-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scienta.2017.05.024
Reference to a book:
Hartmann, H. T., & Kester, D. E. (1975). Plant propagation: principles and practices. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey
Reference to a chapter in an edited book:
Brown, B., & Aaron, M. (2001). The politics of nature. The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp. 5-15
Proceedings
Balık, H. İ., Balık, S. K., Erdogan, V., Kafkas, S., Beyhan, N., Duyar, Ö., & Köse, Ç. (2017, August). Clonal selection in'Tombul'hazelnut: preliminary results. In IX International Congress on Hazelnut 1226 (pp. 53-58)
Reference to a website
FAO, 2019. Crops Production Quality. http://www.fao.org/home/en/ (accessed 15 April 2019).
Thesis
Karakaya, M. (2016). Effects of different treatments on fruit quality of Piraziz apple during cold storage. Master’s Thesis (or Doctoral Thesis), Ordu University, Institute of Science and Technology, Ordu.
Journal abbreviations source
Journal names should be abbreviated according to the List of Title Word Abbreviations
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Figures
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Tables
Please submit tables as editable text and not as images. Tables can be placed either next to the relevant text in the article, or on separate page(s) at the end. Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text and place any table notes below the table body. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that the data presented in them do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article. Please avoid using vertical rules and shading in table cells.
The statistical significance should be stated using P values (P<0.01) or ** symbols for which description should be given.
Units
SI unit systems should be used, / symbol should not be used in preparation of manuscript. (N or kg m-3 instead of kg or kg/m3).
Abbreviations and symbols
Abbreviations and symbols (if necessary) should be given in parentheses. Abbreviations should not be used in the manuscript title or subtitles. Formulas should be given as ‘equation’ and numbered in manuscript.
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Ethical Principles and Publication Policy
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences (TURJFAS) is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and expects all parties (authors, referees, editors and publisher) in the publishing process to bear the following ethical responsibilities.
In keeping with its commitment to best practices in academic publishing, TURJFAS strongly supports and adheres to the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publication adopted by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) and World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences utilises the process flow sheets developed by COPE in collaboration with Springer Nature when dealing with cases of fraudulent manipulation of the publication process.
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and expects all parties (authors, referees, editors and publisher) in the publishing process to bear the following ethical responsibilities.
• guarantee the accuracy and authenticity of the paper they submit.
• all agree to its submission and that the corresponding author has been authorized by co-authors to submit on their behalf. It should be confirmed that neither the manuscript nor its main content have already been published in any language (including full-texts of papers presented at scientific meetings) or under consideration for publication elsewhere.
• appropriately cite other authors or contributors or sources.
• only use copyrighted materials such as data collection tools, questionnaires, interview forms, tables, graphics, figures, maps and photos after obtaining written permission or making a copyright agreement; however, use without obtaining permission is allowed if the source is clear; for example, authors can download and use a map if the source is written on the map.
• verify whether a collection permit or receiving ethics committee approval is necessary in the country from which specimens originate, and allow for timely acquisition of such a permit.
• always comply with the privacy rights of human participants; authors should include a statement in their manuscript that informed consent was obtained to conduct experiments with human participants.
• deposit their molecular data in a public database (e.g., GenBank) and accession numbers should be provided in the manuscript.
• respond promptly to editors’ requests for raw data, evidence of the accuracy of their data, ethical approval documents, informed consent forms and copyright permissions.
• explain any financial relationship or conflict of interest that could potentially affect the findings or scientific conclusions of the study.
• clearly report all funding details required by their funding and grant-awarding bodies.
• not include people on the author list who provide help during the work such as writing, editing and technical assistance but who do not meet the criteria of authorship; they should be listed in the "Acknowledgments" section after obtaining their written permission.
• not use information that they personally obtain (conversation, correspondence or interviews with third parties) without written permission from the source.
• contact the editor as quickly as possible in order to withdraw the paper or correct as an erratum/errata when inaccurate information or scientific errors are found in the paper.
• act in accordance with all details stated in the copyright release form.
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences utilises the process flow sheet prepared by COPE in situations potentially related to ethical problems. Please click here to access the flow sheet prepared by the committee.
• inform the editor and withdraw from the review process if the content of the submitted manuscript is outside their own scientific field or knowledge, or if they cannot make their assessment in the stated periods assessment in duration of peer review process, or if there is any other reason that would disqualify them from being a reviewer.
• have no conflicts of interest related to the study, the authors and/or the research funder.
• act fairly and objectively and try to be constructive while maintaining scientific neutrality when evaluating manuscripts.
• not make personal criticisms of the authors during the evaluation process.
• make suggestions to the authors to improve the manuscript and to eliminate possible errors.
• indicate important papers not cited in the text or references cited in the text but not in the reference list.
• keep confidential all the information and ideas in the manuscript; they should not be shared with third parties, and not used for personal advantage. The confidentiality rule also covers people who decline to review.
• inform to the editor if there are any ethical problems, plagiarism concerns or copyright infringements in the study.
• actively conduct scientific research.
• have a broad knowledge of the science environment.
• not have personal, economic or political connections that would affect in any way their duties and responsibilities.
• carefully check the suitability of submitted manuscripts for the journal and conformity to the journal style for the manuscript.
• carefully check manuscripts for scientific authenticity, originality and conformity to the journal’s ethical standards.
• ensure that all information in submitted manuscripts is kept confidential until published.
• impartially and independently manage the peer review process.
• declare whether they have a conflict of interest or not, for example, when they are asked to manage the process of a manuscript submitted from their own institution.
• not allow any activities that constitute conflict of interest or prejudice between the authors and the reviewers.
• not make their publication decision entirely according to the reviewers’ suggestions; the editors should be aware that the reviewers are only advisers.
• be aware that they have ethical responsibility for their publication decision.
• not change their acceptance decision unless there is a serious problem with the manuscript, for example, when an ethics violation is detected.
• not change editorial decisions given in the previous editorial period, unless there is a serious problem in the manuscript.
• not hesitate to publish errata, amendments and declarations.
• defend freedom of expression.
• maintain ethical standards throughout all processes.
Publisher’s Responsibilities
The publisher:
• provides online hosting services and an editorial workflow management system for the journal, Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences.
• provides all the necessary technical conditions for an online journal management system and helps ensure the maintenance of the journal’s standards.
• supports efforts to increase the journal’s international visibility.
• ensures that the highest standards and the best practices in academic publishing are maintained.
• provides the appropriate data for national and international indexes.
• delivers permanent accessibility and the preservation of scientific works, and ensures digital archiving of publications by partnering with other organizations.
Readers’ Responsibilities
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences expects readers to bear the following responsibilities, even if they are not in the publishing process.
Readers:
• must avoid infringement of the copyright of papers.
• should give feedback to the journal about how to improve the journal’s performance in all areas.
• should notify the chief editor via e-mail (burhanozturk55@gmail.com) of papers involving suspected ethical misconduct or containing errors or with important spelling errors.
Publication Policy
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences is a peer-reviewed, international scientific journal that publishes and promotes research in Food and Agriculture Sciences worldwide. It is a fully open access journal, published biannually by DergiPark for the “Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBİM)”, a unit of “The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK)”. DergiPark provides online hosting services and an editorial workflow management system for academic journals published in Türkiye. The DergiPark project, undertaken by TÜBİTAK – ULAKBİM, is a public service in Türkiye whose mission is the web-based publication of academic journals and the operation of an online journal management system.
All manuscripts submitted for publication in Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences will be pre-reviewed by the editor. Manuscripts that fall outside the aims and scope of the journal, are inadequate in terms of language and writing, not original or not sufficient for the requirements of a scientific study, will be rejected or may have revisions requested at this initial stage.
After initial evaluation, the manuscript will be double blind, peer reviewed by at least two independent, expert referees. If there are inconsistencies between the referees, more reviewers will be asked to review the manuscript. The editor will decide on the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript according to the reports of these referees. However, a manuscript may be rejected without external review by the editor if it is considered unacceptable, for example, a manuscript will be rejected without peer review if it does not comply with the instructions for authors or if it is beyond the scope of the journal.
The names and e-mail addresses entered in the journal system DergiPark will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party. Responsibility for technical content and for protection of proprietary material rests solely with the author(s) and their organizations and is not the responsibility of the publisher, the journal or its editorial staff.
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences provides full open access to its publications according to the principle that providing scientific research to the public free of charge increases global information sharing. Furthermore, Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences does not charge any paper submission or processing charges and there is no open access publication fee for authors.
Price Policy
Turkish Journal of Food and Agriculture Sciences is an Open Access Journal, and does not charge any costs from authors, during article delivery, article-editorial processing, assessment and publication charges (page or color charges) in the printing stages.
All articles can be accessed as online, free of charge, on the journal web page.
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Associate Professor Derya ÖZTÜRK
In 2002, she graduated from Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics. In 2006, she completed her graduate education in Gaziosmanpaşa University, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Master Program in Agricultural Economics. In 2008, she started to work as lecturer at Balıkesir University Gönen Vocational School. Her Ph.D degree was completed in 2011 in Gaziosmanpaşa University, Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Agricultural Economics. In 2012, she was appointed to Ordu University Ünye Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Business Administration as a Faculty Member. In 2018, she became Associate Professor in the Department of Production Management in the Department of Business Administration. She is still working as a Associate Professor at Ordu University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences.
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Biosystems Engineering
Field Crops
Food
Horticulture
Ornamental and Landscape
Plant Protection
Soil and Plant Nutrition
EDITORIAL BOARD
Prof. Dr. Ebubekir Altuntaş was born in 1967 in Sivas, he completed his primary, secondary and high school education in Sivas. He completed his undergraduate education at Ankara University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Mechanization between 1985 and 1989. He completed his master's degree at Gaziosmanpaşa University, Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences, Department of Agricultural Machinery between 1992-1994 and his doctorate at Selçuk University, Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences, Department of Agricultural Machinery between 1994-1998. In 1993, he started to work as a research assistant at Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Machinery. He was appointed as Assistant Professor in 2000, Associate Professor in 2006 and Professor in 2012 at Gaziosmanpaşa University, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Department of Agricultural Machinery Systems. He is still working at the same university. He has participated in many scientific and academic studies and activities and has more than 150 scientific articles and publications. He is married and has two children.
Dr. Erhan Sulejmani
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Food Technology and Nutrition, University of Tetova, North Macedonia
Dr. Erhan Sulejmani earned his Doctorate in Technical Sciences in Food Technology from the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. His doctoral research, supported by an international TUBITAK-funded project, was conducted at the Department of Food Engineering, İnönü University in Malatya, Turkey, and focused on biochemical and chemical changes during the ripening of hard cheeses.
He holds a Master of Agricultural Sciences in Dairy Technology, also from Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, where he investigated the quality of white brined cheese under varying processing conditions. He completed his undergraduate studies in Veterinary Medicine in 2005.
Since 2006, Dr. Sulejmani has been active in academia, teaching and researching in the fields of dairy and meat processing technologies, food chemistry, and food hygiene. He was appointed Assistant Professor (Docent) in 2016 at the University of Tetova. He has participated in numerous national and international projects and is fluent in English.
His research interests include traditional and functional dairy products, cheese biochemistry, food quality and safety, and innovative food processing methods.
Jiban Shrestha is a plant breeder and is currently working in rice and maize breeding works. He has published more than 300 journal articles and 5 books. He has been editing and reviewing journal articles for internationally reputed publishers. Till date, he has reviewed more than 600 journal articles and edited more than 150 journal articles.
English, Hindi, Bangla
Since 1995 he has worked at the University of Zagreb firstly as young assistant and nowadays as a permanent full professor. He was head of the Dairy Science Department for six years (2015-2021). He teaches on ten subjects at University of Zagreb. Besides teaching at University of Zagreb, he taught at University of Split and at University of Knin (Croatia), as well as at the University of Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), at the Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur (Turkey) and at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA). His research interests include milk quality, cheese making, cheese ripening and Mediterranean traditional cheeses.
He has been sensory evaluator of cheeses and other dairy products for more than 20 years in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and in the 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020, 2022 World Championship Cheese Contest in Madison, USA, as well as in International Food Contest, Herning (Denmark, 2019).
Scientifically and professionally he was educated at IPC Livestock, Oenkerk (Netherlands), at ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Swiss) and at the University of Guelph (Canada). He is a member of the Croatian Dairy Union and the Editorial Board of the Scientific Journal Mljekarstvo. He has participated in more than 40 international symposiums and he presented five plenary presentations (twice in China, once in India and twice in Croatia).
As co-author he has published more than 140 scientific and professional papers, as well as five books:
1. Cheesemaking, (2014, Publisher Croatian Dairy Union; in Croatian),
2. Cheesemaking in Theory and Practice, (2015, Publisher: Karlovac University of Applied Science; in Croatian),
3. Croatian cheeses. In: The Oxford Companion to Cheese (2016, Publisher: Oxford University Press),
4. Processing of Sheep Milk. In: Handbook of Milks of Non-Bovine Mammals (Publisher: Wiley Blackwell, 2017),
5. Production of Sheep’s and Goat’s Cheese (2018, Publisher: Croatian Union of Sheep and Goat Breeders; in Croatian).
Professor Mohammad Shafiur Rahman is the author/co-author of over 450 technical articles including more than 160 journal papers and 15 books. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed and award-wining Food Properties Handbook, and editor of the popular Handbook of Food Preservation published by CRC Press, Florida. First editions received the bestseller recognition and the third edition is now released. First edition was translated into Spanish. He was invited to serve as one of the Associate Editors for the Handbook of Food Science, Engineering and Technology, and one of the Editors for the Handbook of Food and Bioprocess Modeling Techniques published by CRC Press, FL. He has initiated the International Journal of Food Properties and serving as the founding Editor-in-Chief for more than 25 years, and serving in the editorial boards of 10 international journals and book series. He is serving as an Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Agricultural and Marine Sciences (CAMS), published by Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. In 1998, he has been invited and continued to serve as a Food Science Adviser for the International Foundation for Science, Sweden. He was invited as keynote/plenary speaker more than 15 international conferences in the food science and engineering area. He received the HortResearch Chairman's Award, BRAP Award, CAMS Outstanding Researcher Award 2003, SQU Distinction in Research Award 2008, Oman National Award 2020. In 2008, Professor Rahman has ranked among the top five Leading Scientists and Engineers of 57 OIC Member Countries in the Agroscience Discipline. In 2020, he was recognized among World Top 2% influential scholars around the World (ranked 107 among 48,454 food science researchers), published by Stanford University, USA.
Gordana Manevska-Tasevska is an Associate Professor and a policy analyst at the Department of Economics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Her research focuses on the performance of agricultural systems, with particular emphasis on economic and environmental efficiency, competitiveness, sustainability, resilience, innovation, and structural transformation, as well as their interaction with the Common Agricultural Policy.
Miroljub Barać is a full professor at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade. He is the author/co-author of over 350 scientific references, two monographs, one textbook and two auxiliary textbooks in the field of food science, food biochemistry. His area of interest is food biochemistry, biochemical transformations during the production of animal and plant products, and bioactive food components.
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