agriculture crop Articles
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Making use of biotechnology applications in Turkish agriculture: Why is it not yet happening?
One of the primary challenges for developing countries is to create new opportunities for sustainable economic development through the use of new technologies such as biotechnology. In this context, the use of agricultural biotechnology to produce cheap biofuel made from agricultural crops as well as agricultural waste (cellulose) might have a great potential to promote rural development in ...
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Controlled Environment Agriculture - The future of growing
Food security, nutrition and the future of farming are challenges that face us all, but with innovation and research, there are solutions at hand. Commercial indoor growing is a fast-paced and ever-evolving industry. And rightly so, if we have any hope of feeding growing populations with high quality, nutrient-dense food then we need to be looking beyond conventional farming and start embracing ...
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Advances in control of postharvest diseases in tropical fresh produce
With increased global trade, fresh produce is increasingly being moved over vast distances to foreign markets. This requires effective cold chain and product management practices to ensure premium quality fresh produce with increased shelf life. Product safety has now also become an additional minimum requirement for market entry. Producers should therefore take cognisance of the impact ...
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Convert Agriculture Waste Into Energy
India is mainly an agricultural county and is also the largest contributors in the GDP of the country. Agriculture provides employment to a huge population of the rural India. This was not the case suddenly post-independence in India. Various steps were taken to make India as a reliable agricultural country. Steps such as green revolution were taken in several five years plan. This has made India ...
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Chain - Agriculture in cooperation with nature - Case Study
Client Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops Croatian Agricultural Land Agency Financed by The European Union from the Fund for the Serbia-Croatia cross-border cooperation Countries Republic of Serbia and Republic of Croatia Background project The Danube region is a major international hydrological basin and ecological corridor. This requires a regional approach to nature ...
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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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Application of microbial bacterial fertilizer in agricultural organic fertilizer production line
Bio-fertilizer is a kind of product that leads to the specific fertilizer effect of crops caused by the life activities of microorganisms, and it is a kind of finished fertilizer in the organic fertilizer production line. It has a huge effect on crop growth and soil nutrition. Here we introduce the application of microbial bacterial fertilizer in the organic fertilizer production line. 1. The ...
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Valorising Agri-Waste – Agriculture produces an unsustainable amount of waste, so how does the bioeconomy let us derive value from it?
For every kilogram of “usable” crop produced in agriculture, between 1 and 2.5 kilograms of residue is also produced. Of course, some of this residue must remain in the field or be used elsewhere on the farm in order to maintain a healthy ecosystem, but that which isn’t used thus is an unavoidable waste. Minimising waste is one of the central tenets of sustainability: the waste ...
By NNFCC Ltd.
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