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We use many kinds of digital technologies in our daily life and they lead to radical changes. These technologies are recently being adopted by agriculture and food industry and their use in various applications is tested. The results of the studies conducted with the use of these technologies, especially IoT (internet of things)-based systems, are quite promising for the solution of the chronic problems of agriculture and food industry such as food-borne diseases, mycotoxin contaminations, pesticide residues, increasing waste, etc. Under extraordinary conditions, just like the ones we have recently experienced due to COVID-19 pandemic, IoT-based systems are crucial to ensure the sustainability of agriculture and food supply chain. In this review, the fundamentals of IoT-based systems and recent developments in their use in agriculture and food supply chain are explained. Based on the literature, examples of successful applications of IoT-based systems for irrigation efficiency, pesticide treatments, supply chain management etc. are given. Nowadays, there is a great demand for the integration of IoT-based systems into the present agricultural practices and supply chains and it seems to increase exponentially. Experts in electronics and computer sciences have achieved noteworthy success in the simulations. On the other hand, only a few studies have been conducted in real agricultural and food systems. However, IoT-based systems should be tested on-site and their success in practical applications should be proved. It is obvious that new era will be one in which IoT-based technologies and their tools will be more commonly used in agriculture and food supply. © 2023 Elsevier Ltd
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There is a growing interest in the role of homestay in tourism linked to the stakeholders care about sanitization as well as their contribution to the tourism experience. This study is to explore factors that affect the house satisfaction for homestay operation in COVID-19 period. It is a quantitative and survey research. Research tools for this study are structural questionnaires and using area sampling from sample size 399 visitors who stayed one night and longer in the homestay. Percentage, mean, and standard deviation were used to describe general data description of social, population, and attitude of intrinsic factor of homestay operation that affected house satisfaction. Multiple Regression (Enter method) was used to compare between independent and dependent variables. The finding shows that the variables of attitude in term of food;hospitality;tour program;local product's value;management and public relation can affect house satisfaction. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
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The aim of this project is to construct portable smart farming management tools that could be helpful for the farmer involved in the pineapple industry. The project also aims to focus on the productivity of the plant by varying the fertilizer contents. During the Covid-19 pandemic that impacts all industries especially the agriculture industry, the farmers had an issue related to precision in terms of monitoring the soil condition of their crops due to limitations on the mobility of people across borders and lockdowns are contributing to labor shortages. Therefore, this study expected to look at the possibilities of the Smart Farming Management Tool Internet-of-Things based to be implemented in helping farmers to keep on track of the soil conditions in their crops via smartphones. © 2022 IEEE.
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PurposeThis paper aims to explore the links between climate change and tourism and explores the connections between these themes.Design/methodology/approachThe paper provides an analysis based on the literature and evidences from recent studies.FindingsThe tourism sector was already severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and whereas it is now on a slow pathway to recover, climate change is adding an additional pressure to it.Social implicationsKnock-on effects could also trigger disruptions in various other sectors. This includes not only local agriculture but also important sources of income for people in tourist destinations such as service providers (e.g. drivers, tourism guides), local handicraft industries and many other small businesses, which rely on tourism as source of employment or of direct income.Originality/valueThe paper points out to the fact that, whereas adaptation to climate change is a long-term process, a strategic approach to handle its immediate impacts to the tourism sector are important.