Agriculture
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, 14:46
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, 12:32
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, 18:13
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, 15:16
Agriculture
Cameroon: Farming in the Dark / Camerún: La actividad agrícola en la oscuridad
Poor farmers have little chance of getting a fair price for their produce if they don’t know how much markets beyond their villages are willing to pay. The internet is leveling their playing field through schemes such as INFOSHARE, which is giving access to the latest market news to thousands of remote cocoa and coffee farmers in Cameroon.
Los agricultores pobres tienen escasas posibilidades de obtener un precio justo por sus productos si no saben los precios que están dispuestos a pagarse en los mercados más allá de sus aldeas. El Internet está nivelando sus terrenos de juego por medio de programas como INFOSHARE, que está dando acceso a las noticias más recientes del mercado a miles de cultivadores de cacao y café que viven en zonas remotas en el Camerún.
Aug 3, 2005, 10:51
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