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Leaf Cares Article - Foliar Analysis
What is Leaf tissue testing? Leaf tissue testing is a crucial process for evaluating the concentration of essential elements within plant tissue. Essential nutrients, categorised as micronutrients and macronutrients, play key roles in sustaining the plant’s life cycle. Micronutrients, required in smaller amounts and macronutrients needed in larger amounts are essential for achieving ...
By SOILCARES
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Identify, prevent & treat russet mites on cannabis
As a cannabis grower, you will hopefully be aware of the importance of maintaining strong, healthy plants. However, one little pest, the infamous Russet Mite, can seriously harm your crop. These minuscule bugs can significantly damage your cannabis plants, resulting in lower yields or even crop loss. But fear not—you can effectively prevent and treat russet mites if you have the correct ...
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Project - FP200 - Scaling up the implementation of the Lao PDR Emission Reductions Programme through improved governance and sustainable forest landscape management (Project 2)
Lao PDR's vulnerability to climate change impacts is exacerbated by its limited resources and capacity to invest in adaptive climate measures to protect its economy and rural population. Since 16 per cent of the country's GDP stems from agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, the government has identified these sectors as priority areas in its climate strategies including the National Adaptation ...
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Farming Cotton In A Water-Scarce World
One of the least discussed aspects of the climate emergency is the water crisis, but as the realities of water stress and scarcity around the world really start to bite, there can be no doubt that it will soon become a hot topic of conversation, hitting headlines with increasing regularity as time goes on. Because water underpins every aspect of society in the 21st century, it is immediately ...
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Application of soil sensor for agriculture
Background: A moisture sensor that measures the current moisture content of the soil. Sensors into irrigation sensors help to help to facilitate more efficient distribution of water supplies. According to technical classification, soil sensors are divided into the following categories: Ground – installed below the ground to monitor the root zone; Aerial – Using drones to detect data, ...
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Voices from Below
Understanding the layers of inequality in agriculture Officially, Kavita Devi would not count as landless. Even though she belongs to a land-owning family, in practice, she is landless. These intra-household gender-generational granularities are not accounted for in official statistics of landless rural families in Bihar who make for over 60% of the state’s population, of which, over 92% ...
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Be harvest ready
Use farm management software to create the ultimate harvest prep checklist Even in that moment of relative quiet prior to harvest, the busy weeks ahead are beginning to occupy your mind. Will you be ready for everything simultaneously coming your way? Production volume, quality, people, equipment and safety all factor into what is arguably the busiest time of your year. The ability to plan ...
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Improving Cereal Storage Facilities with Gas Sensing
Storage of cereal crops and other foodstuffs is an essential part of ensuring a sustainable and robust food supply. Cereal crops are typically harvested between mid-July to mid-September but with careful storage can be kept for periods longer than a year.1 Successful storage of cereals involves the balance of a variety of environmental conditions to ensure the maintenance of quality and the ...
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Ozone for Vertical Farming
Ozone in vertical farming is an excellent organic fungicide and biocide. In addition to its high efficiency and the advantages of not leaving chemical residues on the leaves. When ozone is dissolved in water favors root growth and increases dissolved oxygen in plants. About 90% of the water used worldwide is for agriculture. Ozone helps reduce the amount of water and helps inactivate viruses ...
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What is Real-Time Monitoring?
How Can Real-Time Data Monitoring Improve the Efficiency of Aqua Farms? Industry experts credit the monitoring of these attributes to crop growth, survival, feed efficiency, water chemistry requirements and the overall effect on production. Benefits of Real-Time Monitoring and Data Access Benefit One: Collecting data to be used for consistent growth and using data collected daily, weekly and ...
By Aquasend
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Agricultural waste, British Farming and everything in between
The world of farming consists of early mornings and late nights, the diversification throughout the year can change massively from what farms produce to sell and what types of waste they have to manage. This can not only produce more challenges from a management perspective but affect how secure the farm is from a biosecurity standpoint. There are truly an endless amount of sectors within the ...
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Aviro D16 Drone: The way to respond to agricultural losses due to pests
Agriculture is the backbone of the critical industry, especially in Southeast Asia regions, and helps sustain food security worldwide. Notably, they produce prominent productions like rice and palm oil. Each region's most scenic coastline is subjected to the country's broadest range of geographical hazards. The sector currently faces some challenges, including a shortage of human ability, ...
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Top 3 common misconceptions about the agribusiness industry
Agribusiness, also called agribiz or agricorps, is the business of agricultural production. Agribusiness is responsible for many economic aspects of food production, including seed and fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, livestock feed, processing plants, and machinery used to harvest grain crops. Agribusiness can be considered a subset of the "business industry" that deals with food and ...
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Project - Pasumai Tamil Nadu (Tamil Nadu)
Every year farmers in Tamil Nadu suffer crippling debts due to severe crop loss caused by acute shortage of water during non-monsoon seasons. The situation becomes grave when farmers get trapped in debts for not repaying loans on time. Since agriculture is the main source of income of rural farmers in Tamil Nadu, the adversities of failed harvest makes many of them to even commit suicide. ...
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Forest Management
Using drones with remote sensing technologies for forest management Forest Management Applications How remote sensing technologies make a difference Remote sensing technologies can enhance forest managers’ ability to manage forestry operations in an increasingly complex and challenging ...
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Cultivation System that Enhances Opportunities in the Cannabis Industry—Delta 9
Many of the Canadian cannabis companies are focused on expanding into the US cannabis market in 2021. The one remaining obstacle is that if they grow cannabis or own retail stores in Canada, they are prohibited from entering the US market until cannabis is legal at the federal level. Without federal legalization and safe banking in the US market, however, navigating through the hurdles of the ...
By Delta 9
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Farmers warned to dispose of agricultural waste responsibly - or face legal action
Over 135,000 tonnes of waste plastic is generated by the UK agricultural sector each year – and farmers could face legal action if they’re found to be disposing of it improperly. The Environment Agency has warned that farming companies who fail to follow efficient, ethical refuse management guidelines will be fined: even if they’re relying on a third party to get rid of ...
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Consider Drying Before Planting!
Drying is one of the most important, yet significantly overlooked, parts of the hemp growing and harvesting process. As planting season approaches, it’s crucial to think about drying before you plant your crop. If hemp is dried cleanly, properly, and promptly, there will be minimal damage or loss. As such, this will maximize the quality of products post-harvest. The Advanced Hemp Dryer ...
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Drones: 4 Ways Drone Technology is Revolutionizing Farm Management
If you’ve ever flown a model airplane, you can fly a drone. If you haven’t flown a model airplane… you can still fly a drone. Because of how technology has evolved, it’s now easier than ever to take advantage of the new opportunities advancing ag tech has to offer. Over the last decade, drone technology has steadily been growing as part of a practical approach to ...
By Growers
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Plastic Disease: You Need To Remove Net Wrap From Hay Bales
Why Do Farmers Use Net Wrap? Ever wonder how hay is Stored in Cattle Fields? Farmers use Net Wrap, which is often made out of plastic or twine. Plastic Net wrap and twine are used to hold Hay Bales together until it is time to feed cattle. It is a quick and convenient way to gather, load, and unload Hay Bales. In fact, when stored and applied properly, Net Wrap can maintain most of ...
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