Protection from rodents requires rodenticides and protective equipment to prevent rodents from entering the crop store.
In developed agricultural systems, the modern farm is viewed primarily as a production unit where the harvested product is rapidly transferred to agribusiness and food companies which have the necessary technological, management and financial resources to adequately treat and preserve farm produce in bulk.
The mechanization of farming practices throughout the world has revolutionized food production, enabling it to maintain pace with population growth except in some lessdeveloped countries, most notably in Africa.
Power supply may be considered as autonomous at different levels: at local on-farm level, at local co-operative level or at national level.
At local level autonomous power supply may be defined as that power which is generated on-farm for local on-farm use.Livestock production, which not so long ago depended primarily on the pitchfork and scoop shovel, now uses many complicated and highly sophisticated machines for handling water, feed, bedding, and manure, as well as for the many special operations involved in producing milk and eggs.
Oil from oilseeds such as rapeseed, corn oil or sunflower oil, needs to be esterified to reduce its viscosity close to that of diesel before use in a diesel engine. The oil from oilseeds cannot be regarded as a potentially economic byproduct in the same way as sugarcane bagasse, a byproduct of sugar manufacture used as feed stock for manufacture of car alcohol fuel, or straw from cereals, used as fuel in boilers, are so regarded.
