Soil is the foundation on which we grow our food. World Food Prize Laureate Dr Rattan Lal compares soil with a bank account. We have to put more into the bank than we withdraw from it. This means that in order to improve the quality of soil (and crops), we will need to increase the soil’s organic...
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Beyond Pesticides
2023.10.24
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Sub-Saharan Africa, often celebrated for its rich cultural diversity and stunning landscapes, is also home to a growing crisis beneath its surface – the depletion of its ancient soils. These soils–some of the oldest in the world–have undergone long periods of weathering and erosion, leading to...
CropLife
2023.10.16
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“Some farmers are constantly looking for something on the cutting edge,” observes Ron Geis, Market Development Specialist at Corteva Agriscience, about the desire to utilize biologicals. Primarily, adds Geis, these growers have tended to do business within the fruit/nut tree and specialty crop...
Greenhouse Management
2023.09.25
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Pesticides — in this case, insecticides and miticides — are widely used in greenhouse production systems to manage insect and mite pest populations and maintain populations below plant-damaging levels. Some greenhouse producers are minimizing the use of broad-spectrum pesticides and are using more...
The University of Queensland
2023.09.21
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Insect-specific viruses are being investigated to protect Australia’s $4 billion sugar industry in a research project at The University of Queensland.
Dr Kayvan Etebari from UQ’s School of the Environment is using genomics to identify viruses which could be developed into environmentally safe...
Grainews
2023.09.21
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Biofertilizers improve plant nutrition and include symbiotic and free-living microbes that can produce plant-available nitrogen as well as solubilizers of phosphorus and potassium. Other examples include arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that can explore more nutrients beyond rooting areas and...
2023.09.19
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Romnick A. Latina and Barbara L. Caoili
The increasing concerns on the risks of chemical pesticides in controlling insect pests and plant pathogens have urged many agricultural scientists to search for alternative management strategies to combat these pests. In the University of the Philippines...
2023.09.19
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Randolph N. Candano, Marcela M. Navasero, Wilson de Panis
Earwigs are a distinctive group of mostly dark-colored (brown to black), small- to medium-sized insects that can be recognized through the following features: flattened elongated body, heavily sclerotized pincer-like cerci, two pairs of...