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For generations, farmers in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province have relied on traditional farming techniques passed down by their forebears. However, despite many of them struggling to make ends meet, the farmers have been reluctant to abandon these age-old methods. It has taken years to change this mindset. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) has ...
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Although plants have a unique immune system, they are not sufficient to ensure their invincibility. In the case of food crops, annual food losses due to pests and diseases account for about 20% of the total global food production. ...
In fact, the GAO estimates that climate change will result in crop losses that could cost up to $53 billion annually by the end of the century. ...
“Whether it’s wheat farmers who wrapped up harvest in May, those in the field harvesting their crops now, or those looking ahead to harvest in the coming weeks, COVID-19 and other factors outside their control continue to depress the price of wheat. ...
While drones have been used in private industries for decades, their commercial applications continue to expand as quickly as innovators can come up with new ideas. As drones become more prevalent in our society, much of this growth is attributed not only to declining costs of technology but also to the adjustment of government restrictions on drone use. The agriculture industry, which continues ...
Injudicious use of fertilizers may result in crop damage and yield loss. Wasting money on fertilizer your soil does not need If you do not know what nutrients are already present in your soil, you might use fertilizers that your soil is already abundant of. ...
It is estimated that 80% of farms use propane to fuel their grain dryers. On farm grain drying reduces crop loss, adds harvest flexibility and improves yields through earlier harvest. ...
However, it’s possible that aphids may still be present in potato crops as they head towards maturity, and with the hot weather seen recently, aphids could become an increasing threat for growers. ...
In the new report, UF/IFAS researchers and the chief economist for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, compiled three scenarios for crop losses: optimistic, mid-range and pessimistic. So, although the optimistic scenario reports direct crop damage at $4.1 million, the pessimistic one shows that the loss ...
A new test could save time and money diagnosing plant viruses, some of which can destroy millions of dollars in crops each year in Florida, says a University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences researcher. ...
“Since having Vine Alert these crop losses have been reduced dramatically,” she said. For others, innovation wasn’t just about new technology, but new ways to tell their stories. ...
” Professor Ramankutty says: “We have always known that extreme weather causes crop production losses. But until now we did not know exactly how much global production was lost to such extreme weather events, and how they varied by different regions of the world.” His co-author, Corey Lesk, a geographer at McGill University in Montreal, ...
Potato is the third most common staple crop worldwide and the most important field crop in the Netherlands. The cultivation of potatoes requires far more pesticides than with other crops and growers use them in particular to protect crops against the late blight caused byPhytophthora infestans. ...
Climatologists are assessing what brought on the repeated precipitation, keeping corn and soybean fields from drying out and setting the stage for big crop losses in several states just a year after record harvests. Those losses and their impact on crop prices are expected to be offset by bountiful harvests in the western ...
The disease has since spread to more than 30 states in the U.S., making many commercially produced basil crops unsuitable for the fresh market; some long-time basil growers in Florida even stopped basil production in 2013 on the heels of disastrous crop losses attributed to downy mildew. ...
However, its effects are not limited to humans. Globally, ozone damage causes crop losses to an estimated value of €10.7-12.2 billion each year. ...
The Philippine Rice Information System (PRISM) project conducted a review training on crop health issues for 31 participants from eight Philippine Department of Agriculture Regional Field Offices on September 16-19 at IRRI Headquarters in Los Baños, Laguna. The review training provided the participants with the knowledge and skills for conducting effective assessments of ...
The weather in the Mid-South region causes intense pest pressure for row-crop farmers. To maintain yields, farmers in this area must treat numerous insect pests, more so than farmers in other areas of the country, according to Mississippi Extension entomologist Angus Catchot, Ph.D. ...
We then calculated the present value of profit, which we converted to a constant annual payment (or loss). Finally, we calculated profit (or loss) per unit area to permit scaling up or down." The scientists found that controlling irrigation using data from moisture sensors led to substantial reductions in both production time and crop ...