Cucumber Farming Articles
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Greenhouse Tomatoes - Organic farms use smart data for optimum yield - Case Study
A greenhouse organic tomato and cucumber grower saved his crop during extreme drought with Sensoterra sensors, and improved yield with soil moisture data. With extreme droughts occuring more frequently, Danny Monté, Forecast and Quality Administration and Quality Control Manager at AC Hartman BV, relies on Sensoterra soil moisture sensors to support irrigation decisions for greenhouse ...
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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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What is an organic waste composting appliance, its purpose, and its working principle
Now, a large amount of waste is generated every day, both at the domestic level and industrial level. It is most important to handle waste effectively. The food is deserte into landfills free of methane which is dangerous for the earth as an entire. Composting is the best method to handle the waste. How to successfully compost? Composting means recycling green waste composter ...
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Climacteric and non-climacteric fruits
Most fruits ripen due to the action of ethylene. Ethylene is the hormone known as "the ripening hormone". It is produced naturally in fruits causing the color, firmness, flavor and characteristic aromas of each fruit to change. However, once the fruit or vegetable has been collected, ethylene does not act in the same way in all cases. Depending on how ethylene intervenes on fruits, they are ...
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Fact or Fiction? Horticultural Lighting Questions Answered
There are a lot of claims out there about LED and HID lighting, and as manufacturers of both, we always try to show the complete picture. In this article, we try and debunk some common statements made about both LED and HID lighting to help you make better decisions when it comes to grow light ...
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Light Uniformity - Comparing LED and HPS Luminaires
Light uniformity is an important factor when it comes to growing a consistent crop and optimizing your growing environment, however, there has been some misinformation about the way HID and LED luminaires distribute light and affect plant health. As a manufacturer of both HID and LED technology, P.L. Light Systems always strives to show the complete picture of both technologies. We think both ...
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Italy - 2004 & 2005 CROPS - Melons - Case Study
PREAMBLE: Melons are members of the cucurbit family, which includes pumpkins, zucchini, cucumbers and squash, all of which have similar growth requirements. Melon quality is directly related to the sugar content of the fruit. High sugar content is achieved by avoiding all stress during the growing season. Stress comes from foliar diseases, insect pests, weeds, poor nutrition, and excesses or ...
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Indoor Farming is the Future
By 2050, there will be 10 billion people on the planet, the majority of whom in cities. Gertjan and Lianne Meeuws behind Eindhoven firm, Seven Steps To Heaven, believe indoor farming is the future. “Our traditional food system is incapable of feeding everyone responsibly.” All of Eindhoven can identify Gertjan and Lianne Meeuws’ business from afar, thanks to its distinctive ...
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Lighting Strategies for Vine Crop Production
Pepper, tomato and cucumber crops require consistent levels of light for year round production. There are many things to consider before investing in a lighting solution and understanding your growing environment – and the goals you want to achieve – will help in choosing a system that best suits your needs. Having a reliable and efficient lighting system is important not only for ...
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The Sleever: additional flexibility with the Flex-Cassette
Paper packaging has a sustainable image, the reason why more and more consumers choose to buy products packed in paper. Consumers also like to see fresh produce like vegetables and fruits sustainably packed. Online attention extensively focused on plastic-wrapped cucumbers as the general public assessed this as an unnecessary waste of plastic. True, paper is a sustainable packaging material; ...
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EPA Registers Long-Term Uses for Sulfoxaflor
On July 12, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in a Decision Memorandum that it has registered new uses and restored previously registered uses for sulfoxaflor. EPA has approved the use of sulfoxaflor on alfalfa, corn, cacao, grains (millet, oats), pineapple, sorghum, teff, teosinte, tree plantations, and restored the uses on citrus cotton, cucurbits (squash, ...
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With Tomatoes, Less Is More
As you round the final bend of Road 95 through the groves of walnut and almond trees, it would be easy to miss Muller Ranch, but for the cluster of pickup trucks circling the driveway. Yet amidst these swaying Yolo County orchards sits a stunning third-generation, family-owned farm, thriving with several thousand acres of processing tomatoes, specialty peppers, corn, wheat, canola, cucumbers, ...
By Arable
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Underwater Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Future of Marine Fisheries
First of all, there is huge market space for underwater drone. In terms of Fisheries and aquaculture, China's aquaculture area is 8465,000 hectares, of which 27.38% is mariculture area and 72.62% is freshwater aquaculture area. There are 32,000 aquaculture farms in China, covering an area of 10 million hectares. It is necessary to check the temperature, salinity, PH value, dissolved oxygen of ...
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How to guarantee optimal vegetable growing - a precision seed drill
Precise seeding is the key to production of high-quality crops. MAX PNEUMATIC seed drills are modern machines for seeding of various vegetable species, being differently formed and sized. As a result, it successfully sows almost all kinds of seeds, such as: carrots, parsley, cabbage, radish, onion, beetroot, etc. Moreover, it has been designed to meet the farmers needs and vegetable market ...
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How to make optimal condition for growing vegetables
The competition between vegetable producers, high production costs, expensive seeds and many other factors, mean that vegetable producers want to provide optimal conditions for their cropping. They want to get the best product that will meet the high customer’s needs. In addition to investing in seeds, fertilizers and plant protection products, you need the suitable equipment. This will ...
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LED or HPS for Growing Cannabis?
“What lighting source should I use for my licensed cannabis grow?”; “I am comparing LED to HPS for my cannabis operation. Which source do you recommend?” These are questions people ask me almost on a daily basis. We have covered this question in past posts on our blog, like this one by our very own head of marketing: LEDs vs Traditional Lighting but most cannabis growers ...
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Demystifying Light Levels for Cannabis Grows
As more and more investors, opportunists and growers are jumping onto the green rush that is the cannabis industry right now there is also a big influx of folks who are learning as they go. Lighting is a major purchase for this industry as a big margin of growers still prefer the better climate control and security of growing indoors and even those who choose to grow in a greenhouse are finding ...
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Q&A with Greenhouse Expert Theo Van de Sande
Here at Illumitex we pride ourselves in not only our products, but our expert staff as well. Theo Van de Sande, our Senior Greenhouse Consultant, sat down with me to answer a few questions over greenhouse farming. But before we give you tips from a pro, a little background on Theo – Theo is a third generation greenhouse grower from the Netherlands with over 30 years of experience and ...
By Illumitex
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Utilization of artificial recharged effluent for irrigation: pollutants' removal and risk assessment
The reclaimed water from soil aquifer treatment (SAT) column was reused for irrigation as the source water, pollutants' removal and health risk assessment was analyzed via the comparison with secondary and tertiary effluents. The effect of the SAT pre-treatment on the qualities and growth of different crops (Lachca sativa – lettuce, Brasica rapa var chinensis – pak choi, Cucumis sativus – ...
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A probabilistic QMRA of
Salmonella in direct agricultural reuse of treated municipal wastewaterDeveloping reliable quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) procedures aids in setting recommendations on reuse applications of treated wastewater. In this study, a probabilistic QMRA to determine the risk of Salmonella infections resulting from the consumption of edible crops irrigated with treated wastewater was conducted. Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) was used to ...
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