Agriculture
Agriculture
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Announce $120 Million in New Agriculture Grants: Bill Gates to Call for United Action to Support World's Poorest Farmers
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on Thursday, October 15, 2009 will urge governments, donors, researchers, farmer groups, environmentalists, and others to set aside old divisions and join forces to help millions of the world's poorest farming families boost their yields and incomes so they can lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. Gates will say the effort must be guided by the farmers themselves, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and the environment.
Click on title to go to full article.
Oct 15, 2009, 7:12pm
Agriculture
Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Opens Doors for 100 Million Seeds from 100 Countries
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault established in the permafrost in the mountains of Svalbard opened on February 26, 2008 on a remote island in the Arctic Circle, receiving inaugural shipments of 100 million seeds that originated in over 100 countries. The Vault, designed to store duplicates of seeds from seed collections, sent seeds from 20 different research institutes and national gene collections.
Click on title to go to full article.
Mar 2, 2008, 5:09pm
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
Asprin-like Hormone Found to Fight Plant Diseases
Discovery could lead to development of crops with enhanced yield, heightened immunity and reduced need for pesticides. Scientists have finally identified a key component in the disease-fighting process in plants that activates plant-wide defenses after a pathogen attack.
Oct 7, 2007, 2:46pm
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
|
