(Beyond Pesticides, April 30, 2020) Chemical-intensive farming of crops for animal fodder powers the global market for highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), according to data analyzed by Unearthed, and ...

Aims Plant root traits affect soil biopore (BP) formation. Aims of this study were to measure the effects of fodder crop species with contrasting root traits and duration of cropping on BP density ...

The diversity of the crop sorghum, a cereal used to make alcoholic drinks, has been decreasing over time due to agricultural practice. To maintain the diversity of the crop and keep it growing farmers ...

VARIOUS are the proposals for restoring arable farming to its former prosperous state. Apart from the recent Government promise of establishing a quota for wheat, we have had such interesting ...

DR. STEBLER's well-known work, “Die besten Futterpflanzen,” has found a translator into English. A French translation is also before us. so that it is now available to everyone who speaks any one of ...

Smallholder farmers often face the dilemma of subdividing the farm to grow food for the family and livestock feed. Often a larger portion is allocated to growing crops for family consumption while ...

It might sound odd to call a small plot overgrown with grass a museum. But the half-acre parcel of land on the premises of the office of the State Fodder Farm at Valiyathura in Thiruvananthapuram is ...

Pix by Mandar Deshpande Bhoom (Dharashiv): For Amol Dhage, a 34-year-old dairy farmer from Chinchpur village in Bhoom tehsil, the wait for the truck carrying bags of silage was endless.Every few ...

Sorghum, a cereal used to feed livestock and make alcohol has been damaged over the last 6000 years by humans The damage to genes and reduced varieties available of sorghum are not a consequence of ...