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With Christmas over, there’s likely a plant in your house whose glory is rapidly fading. Pity the poor evergreen, which rarely gets to see the inside of anyone’s house except for a few short weeks in December. And now you’re done with it. But what can you do with a tree? After the holidays, don’tRead more

Millets are a group of highly variable small-seeded grasses, widely grown around the world as cereal crops or grains for fodder and human food. Millets are important crops in the semiarid tropics of Asia and Africa (especially in India, Nigeria, and Niger), with 97% of millet production in developing countries. The crop is favored dueRead more

Environmental pollution is a significant problem. But while most of the focus is placed on polluting industries, toxins like mercury and small particle traffic pollution, a major source of environmental devastation is caused by modern food production. Far from being life sustaining, our modern chemical-dependent farming methods: Strip soil of nutrients Destroy critical soil microbesRead more

Tillage in any production system is performed to prepare a seedbed, remedy compaction, incorporate fertilizers and herbicides and control weeds. However, one of the accompanying results of tillage is the destruction of crop residues that remain after harvest of arable crops. It is an accepted fact that returning crop residues to the soil environment isRead more

AGRIVI system helps farmers manage their farm production with its powerful features. In order to enhance farmer’s experience of using it, the system is constantly improved with new ones, such as field analytic. It enables farmers to track everything they spend on their fields, with field economy and productivity. In last blog post about fieldRead more

Hazelnut tree (Corylus avellana L.) is a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to Europe and Asia Minor, preferring regions with mild, moist winters and cool summers. For this reason, most production is located near large bodies of water at mid latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere (along the Black Sea in Turkey, theRead more

Although the harvest is finished, there are still plenty of work in orchard. Autumn is perfect time to manage the orchard by preparing trees for winter and start thinking about next year’s bloom. It’s also the time to look after the health of the tree.Regular fall management ranges from monitoring for disease or pests toRead more

Agricultural or farm land is land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops. According to the FAO, farm land is the land under temporary agricultural crops, temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens and land temporarily fallow (less than five years). Other sources counted land under permanent cropsRead more

Phytoplasmas are known causal agents of hundreds of diseases in various plants. They are microscopic plant pathogens, which live in the vascular system of plants and are spread by sap-feeding insects, including leafhoppers and planthoppers. There are several diseases of grapevine caused by phytoplasmas: Flavescence dorée Bois noir (black wood, vergilbungskrankheit) Grapevine yellows. All Vitis vinifera varietiesRead more

Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) is the most commonly used salad vegetable, occurring in or under most salads. There are many types, varying in size, form, leaf shape, color and taste. All of these types may have evolved from a weedy form that was used in ancient Egypt as a source of cooking oil from pressedRead more