Water Pesticide Articles & Analysis
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The ThirdEye project supports farmers in Mozambique and Kenya with their decision making in farm and crop management by setting up a network of flying sensors operators. Our innovation is a major transformation in farmers’ decision making regarding the application of limited resources such as water, seeds, fertilizer and labor. Instead of relying on common-sense management, farmers are now ...
However, in order to improve food production, pesticide/herbicide is widely used in agriculture. Over-use of pesticides can lead to hazardous chemicals entering the food chain. Therefore, much concerns have been raised about the risks of pesticide residues in food, because most pesticides show a high degree of toxicity, such as ...
In this way, soil sensors not only improve irrigation efficiency, but also help reduce water consumption on farmland, protect water resources, and achieve sustainable agriculture.Second, optimize the crop growing environmentThe real-time data provided by soil sensors can help farmers understand the condition of the soil in a timely manner and take necessary ...
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On the other hand, plantation problems such as soil conditions, water, pesticide use, climate change are still not fully resolved. Then, how agriculture can fulfill food production by 2050. The crops need to be healthy, so pesticides keep pests and weeds away. These pesticides can harm the environment. ...
Chetna Organic Agriculture Producer Company was established with the primary aim of enhancing the livelihood of tribal smallholder farmers dependent on rain-fed agriculture through making their farming systems more profitable and sustainable. Chetna promotes organic cotton farming and alongside undertakes participative research on the best package of practice depending on the agro-climatic ...
Agriculture is leaving the country for the city What’s more, an indoor farm produces for the local market and involves very minimal use of water and no pesticides. “The old food chain will change. One square metre of an indoor farm can supply one person with a year’s worth of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit. ...
Using clean water when calibrating a pesticide sprayer and carrying extra nozzles for quick repair of simple problems in the field are just some of the tricks of the trade that can help growers save time, energy and money during spraying season, says a spray technology expert in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences at The Ohio State ...
Most importantly, it saves large amounts of water that usually go into keeping the lawn alive. It is proven that watering the lawn, maintaining it, covering it with weed-killer and pesticides and mowing it offsets the impact of actually manufacturing fake grass. ...
The California State Water Resources Control Board adopted a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System General Permit to address the discharge of pesticides to waters of the United States resulting from adult and larval mosquito control. Because pesticides used in spray activities have the potential to cause toxicity to ...
Periodic assessments of the risk of water contamination by pesticides help decision makers to improve the sustainability of agricultural management practices. In Canada, when evaluating the risk of water contamination by pesticides, there are two main constraints. First, because the area of interest is large, a ...
In ecotoxicology, appreciation is growing for the influence that ecological interactions have on the toxicity of contaminants, such as insecticides, to sensitive species. Most previous studies, however, have focused on factors that exacerbate insecticide effects on species, while factors that may mitigate these effects have been relatively ignored. In aquatic habitats, a small number of studies ...
Recent studies have shown that toxicity in these watersheds is caused by organophosphate pesticides (water and sediment) and pyrethroid pesticides (sediment). The present study was designed to provide information on the temporal and spatial variability of toxicity associated with these pesticides to better inform the TMDL ...
High-yielding cultivars adapted to stressed and nonstressed production systems (PS) would maximize efficiency of soil water and nutrient usage, compete well with weeds, resist diseases and insect pests, and reduce dependence on water, fertilizer, and pesticide. ...
The Indian research complex is discouraged from realising its potential for producing bio-innovations suitable for sustainable agricultural development.Keywords: agricultural biotechnology, intellectual property rights, agricultural policy, India, rice, sorghum, millet, groundnut, bio-fertilisers, pesticides, water, drought, ...