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Even as 2009 brought much cheer to the Indian economy with an unexpected growth rate of 7.9% in the second quarter, FM has cautioned that agriculture sector will prove to be a roadblock in achieving the coveted 9% overall growth rate in the current fiscal.
Pranab Mukherjee warned that agriculture may post negative growth during the [...]
If you’re pacing a trough in your shop or office floor waiting for things to warm up and dry out, all the while worrying about how much corn yield potential you’re losing by not getting your crop planted in the timeframe you had hoped, don’t let it get you too far down.
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As farmers quest for farm technologies that will significantly increase productivity, crop production practices continue to change. Yet plant diseases remain a big problem, limiting yields.
An effective disease management involves good agronomic practices such as balanced and appropriate fertilization, crop rotation, tillage, and weed control. But plant disease prevention and identification are still the best [...]
In a striking marriage between the oldest and newest technologies, PepsiCo today unveiled plans to roll out a web-based software tool to help farmers manage and reduce their water use and greenhouse gas emissions.
The food and beverage giant will bring its “i-crop” farming technology to the world, beginning with Europe in 2011, then to the [...]
Mother Nature ruled the Crop Tech Tour the last couple of years: Excess moisture created challenges for many farmers, widened the harvest timeframe and made it tough to get an accurate feel for how some new tools worked in the field.
But, this year’s warm, dry harvest season in the Corn Belt so far is [...]
The Queensland Farmers Federation (QFF) says the use of chemicals in agriculture could be significantly reduced if consumers were willing to accept produce with some imperfections.
The use of endosulfan will be phased out in Australia over the next two years because of adverse environmental effects.
The insecticide is used by fruit and vegetable growers.
QFF spokesman [...]
Who would think that farmers could still extract profit from residues?
Researchers of the Bicol Integrated Agricultural Research (BIARC) do so. They have developed an innovative, environment-friendly technology to convert sweet sorghum residues into bioorganic fertilizer.
Bio-organic fertilizer is compost from any organic material that has undergone rapid decomposition through the action of introduced homogeneous microbial inoculants. [...]
Everytime I visit the Kaohsiung, the prefecture in southern Taiwan, my first impulse is to enjoy the fruits in season. In fact, my father-in-law is always ready with a few pieces, especially with my favorite Taiwan orange – Liu Ding, which is available almost all year round except for the winter months, and lately, their [...]
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