(Beyond Pesticides, April 30, 2020) Chemical-intensive farming of crops for animal fodder powers the global market for highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs), according to data analyzed by Unearthed, and ...

Aims Plant root traits affect soil biopore (BP) formation. Aims of this study were to measure the effects of fodder crop species with contrasting root traits and duration of cropping on BP density ...

Overall, agricultural statistics indicate that while the country's capacity in food grain and fodder production has increased, output of pulses and some cash crops has contracted.

The diversity of the crop sorghum, a cereal used to make alcoholic drinks, has been decreasing over time due to agricultural practice. To maintain the diversity of the crop and keep it growing farmers ...

VARIOUS are the proposals for restoring arable farming to its former prosperous state. Apart from the recent Government promise of establishing a quota for wheat, we have had such interesting ...

Smallholder farmers often face the dilemma of subdividing the farm to grow food for the family and livestock feed. Often a larger portion is allocated to growing crops for family consumption while ...

By planting and nurturing trees on farms, the nation can empower its farmers, strengthen its economy and safeguard its ...

Pix by Mandar Deshpande Bhoom (Dharashiv): For Amol Dhage, a 34-year-old dairy farmer from Chinchpur village in Bhoom tehsil, the wait for the truck carrying bags of silage was endless.Every few ...

It might sound odd to call a small plot overgrown with grass a museum. But the half-acre parcel of land on the premises of the office of the State Fodder Farm at Valiyathura in Thiruvananthapuram is ...

Sorghum, a cereal used to feed livestock and make alcohol has been damaged over the last 6000 years by humans The damage to genes and reduced varieties available of sorghum are not a consequence of ...