Agriculture
Agriculture
Flood-tolerant Rice Offers Relief for World's Poorest Farmers
Farmers should soon have access to a new strain of flood-resistant rice, say scientists at the 3rd steering committee meeting of the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)in Hanoi, Vietnam 8–9 October, 2007.
Oct 15, 2007, 2:45pm
Agriculture
Scientists Find Why Intercropping of Faba Beans with Maize Increases Yields
Chinese scientists have discovered why an agricultural practice called "intercropping' of faba beans and maize increases crop yields.
Aug 5, 2007, 2:40pm
Agriculture
Chinese Scientists Show That Intercropping Maize With Faba Beans Increases Yield
Intercropping, which grows at least two crop species on the same pieces of land at the same time, can increase grain yields greatly. Legume–grass intercrops are known to overyield because of legume nitrogen fixation. However, many agricultural soils are deficient in phosphorus. Here authors Long Li , Shu-Min Li, Jian-Hao Sun, Li-Li Zhou, Xing-Guo Bao, Hong-Gang Zhang, and Fu-Suo Zhang show that a new mechanism of overyielding, in which phosphorus mobilized by one crop species increases the growth of a second crop species grown in alternate rows, led to large yield increases on phosphorus-deficient soils.
Aug 5, 2007, 12:32pm
Agriculture
Cusco, Peru Bans GM Products To Protect Diversity Of Native Potatoes
The regional government of Cusco, Peru has banned genetically modified (GM) products in the region to protect the diversity of thousands of native potato varieties and other Andean food crops.
Jul 30, 2007, 6:13pm
Agriculture
Researchers find Africa's land degradation can be reversed.
Researchers in Niger have found that farmers have rehabilitated three million hectares of severely degraded land by their own initiative. It is possible to make Africa's degraded drylands productive again, said researchers at a symposium held in Niamey, Niger, 23-25 September, 2006.
Oct 9, 2006, 3:16pm
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