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Patents fail to boost crop yields
Policies that secure intellectual property rights (IPRs) for agricultural innovations often fail to encourage technology transfer to developing countries or increase crop yields, a study shows. “Intellectual property rights are not all they are cracked up to be,” says David Spielman, a co-author of the study and researcher at the International Food Policy Research Institute, based in ...
By SciDev.Net
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Crop yields stall in China, India
China and India, the world's two most populous countries, are beset by stagnation in the production of staples like rice, wheat, soybean and maize (corn), says a new study on crop yield growth. Based on statistics from around the world during the 1951– 2008 period, the study 'Recent patterns of crop yield growth and stagnation', says that for some crops in China and India the spatial ...
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Warming Threatens to cut Crop Yields
Projecting the impact of climate change on global food production is no easy task. A warming climate might result in better crop yields in one region, but cause drought and crop failure in another. A new US study, published in the journal Environmental Letters, assesses the odds of a major slowdown in global food production over the next 20 years. Overall, the study’s authors say, the ...
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New Lithovit Special foliar fertilizers in the test phase
We at Tribodyn have used the German winter to develop new Lithovit® Special products for you. Besides our three existing Lithovit® Special foliar fertilizers for rice, maize and cocoa our R&D-team has continued to analyse the needs of different plants to achieve the best results for each cultivation. The base of every Special fertilizer is our Lithovit® which is enriched with ...
By Tribodyn AG
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SMART Agriculture Technology Showcased at AgroFuturo - Sep 12, 2016
SMART Fertilizer Management software presented its newest technologies for precision agriculture at the annual AGROFUTURO expo in Medellin, Colombia. In addition, SMART's CEO Sela spoke about information and communication technologies supporting decision making, as a sustainable strategy to increase crop yields and reduce environmental ...
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Global Harmonization of Plant Protection
For several decades, growers and processors demand a level playing field in plant protection so that their produce finds open markets. Their expenses for crop protection need to be recuperated after harvest. Register today to attend Crops & Chemicals USA, held July 24-26, 2017 in Raleigh, NC and attend our one day workshop on Global Harmonization of Plant Protection, led by Imme Gerke, ...
By Informa
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Agricultural ammonia emissions could be reduced without affecting crop yield
Ammonia released by nitrogen fertilisers in Spanish agriculture could be reduced by up to 82% with only a very minimal impact on crop yield, finds new research. This could be achieved by combining optimised management of manure with the use of non-urea synthetic fertilisers. Agriculture accounted for almost 94% of total European atmospheric emissions of ammonia in 2011. The main sources of these ...
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Gas sensing for optimal Marijuana crop growth for medical use
With a greater global acceptance of medical marijuana, the demand for crops has grown exponentially with a strong motivation towards improving crop yields. For best results, crops benefit from the careful control of temperature, lighting, nutrients and carbon dioxide (CO2). In this article, we find out how Edinburgh Sensors gas sensors are used for measuring CO2 whilst allowing extra CO2 to be ...
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Improve crop yield by removing manure solids
Manure has long been used as a crop fertilizer, but the challenge of finding an efficient use of the nutrients found in manure is ever present. The ratio of nitrogen to phosphorus in manure is low in relation to the nutrient needs of most crops. Therefore, crops tend to be overloaded with manure to meet the nitrogen requirement of agricultural crops, but the excess phosphorus from the process can ...
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Farmers Urged to Check Soil – Liquid Fertiliser Tanks
Farmers and growers were advised to check their soil, according to the Darlington and Stockton Times, to check their soil phosphate and Potash levels. A decline in levels has been reported due to the decline in use of the two treatments that have fallen by an estimated 40 per cent as a direct result of rising prices in 2008. Many farmers have been reported to have taken phosphate and potash ...
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Variable crop sowing dates `produce higher yields`
Cropping systems with variable sowing dates adapted to changing climatic conditions — as opposed to those with fixed sowing dates — will result in increased mean future crop yields, a modelling study has found. Multiple cropping systems, including growing two or more crops at the same time on the same plot (intercropping); after each other in a sequence (sequential cropping); or with ...
By SciDev.Net
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Free Irrigation Assessment Now Available from WaterBit
How Efficient Are Your Irrigation Practices? Find Out With Our Free Irrigation Assessment We’ve developed an Irrigation Assessment that takes into consideration the crops you grow, your farm’s terrain and soil types, your current water and energy usage, and your growing practices to develop a detailed Irrigation Assessment report. You’ll learn: How much time irrigation ...
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Achieve Farming Success with SMART Fertilizer Management
Hod Hasharon, Israel, December 4, 2016: Now more than ever, using fertilizers responsibly is vital for growers to maximize crop yields, boost profits, save costs, and preserve the natural environment. SMART Fertilizer Management aims to help farmers and crop advisers achieve all their objectives efficiently and responsibly, with the latest in digital crop technology. This groundbreaking software ...
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Brick kiln emissions affect crop yields, study finds
Hydrogen fluoride emissions from brick kilns have been found to damage trees and crops in new studies conducted by an international team of scientists in the Peshawar area of northern Pakistan. Peshawar has 450 brick kilns and hydrogen fluoride is also released by factories making aluminium, ceramics, and phosphate fertilisers. Reporting their findings in the February issue of Environmental ...
By SciDev.Net
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A Focus on Crop Yields – Liquid Fertiliser Tanks To Lower Overheads
Aberdeen Press and Journal discuss this week how arable farmers can cut costs and boost yields. To leverage a return on investment, growers must of course minimise the cost per tonne produced and one such way of doing this is to maximise crop yield. But obviously, according to BASF’s Scottish agronomy manager, Dudley Kitching, there is no ‘silver bullet’ to achieve increased ...
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Fertiliser can offset heat for African farmers
[NAIROBI] African smallholders in dry areas can overcome climate change and even double crop yields if they invest in fertiliser use and harvest rainwater, researchers have found. Farmers in arid and semi-arid areas usually protect themselves from climate-related losses by investing as little as possible in farm inputs such as fertilisers. But in doing so they fail to grab opportunities for ...
By SciDev.Net
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Carbon Robotics Disrupts Farming Industry with Autonomous Weeders
Carbon Robotics, an autonomous robotics company, today unveiled its third-generation autonomous weed elimination robots. The Autonomous Weeder leverages robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and laser technology to safely and effectively drive through crop fields to identify, target and eliminate weeds. Unlike other weeding technologies, the robots utilize high-power lasers to eradicate weeds ...
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Fertiliser Helps Grower Claim Record Wheat Yield
A Peterborough-based fertiliser tank supplier is reinforcing the importance of storing large volumes of fertiliser correctly in order to benefit from bulk-buying savings and to reduce wastage. As a Northumberland grower attributes his claimed world record wheat yield to fertiliser. Northumberland farmer, Rod Smith, claims to have achieved a world record wheat yield of 16.52t/ha and attributes ...
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Desert bacteria could help boost crop yields
Desert soil microbes could help halt desertification and boost agriculture in arid regions of the Middle East and North Africa, according to a study. Scientists from the United Arab Emirates [UAE] have isolated local salt- and drought-tolerant strains of Rhizobia, soil bacteria that fix nitrogen when they become established inside the root nodules of legumes. Rhizobia bacteria establish a ...
By SciDev.Net
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Satellite data plus conservation equals better crop yields
Combining remote sensing technology with water and soil conservation techniques can help raise crop yields in South Asia, scientists have reported. Satellite data can help identify specific problems on farmlands such as moisture shortage, excessive soil wetness and flood occurrence. Using the data along with appropriate resource conserving technology (RCT) will increase productivity, a study ...
By SciDev.Net
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