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Stephanie Roblin explores how solar power can be used in farming and explains why it could be an ideal solution for the irrigation purpose in developing countries. Farmers have always played a very significant role in our society as they provide the world’s population with food. However, one may also forget that, not only farmers
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Pests are considered to be one of the major factors of high economic importance in agriculture. Every year there is a huge amount of wastage of produce that can be attributed to pests. They have a significant role to play in the yields and profit of any crop-producing enterprise. Hence pest management is veru important
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People are always looking for ways to adapt and survive with the changing climatic conditions and to fulfill their food demands. Terrace farming is a common way of growing crops in hills and mountains sloping land In most of these farming techniques, rice is cultivated on hills and mountains as it avoids loos of nutritious
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Water-it is the most important natural resource at our disposal. It is a life form and we cannot survive without it. However water scarcity is also a very real and scary concept. This is when there isn’t enough water to go around. And due to having very few water resources, it means there is a
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You must have heard about botanical gardens also known as botanic gardens. But do you know what they mean? It is an area where plants are situated imitating a natural ecosystem for a systematic study. They contain living plants not only for study but for conservation, research and display. What are Botanical Gardens? What
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Every day we are waking up to new technologies in every field, and agriculture is no different. As the world population grows, there has been a thrust in the development of new techniques to grow food in less space and with less water. One such technique that is gaining traction is hydroponic farming. It is
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You might have been hearing a lot on how organic food is great and how people visit farmers market for organic products. It has become the latest trend everyone wants to get on with- buying organic. For one thing it is healthy. Many also suggest that it is tastier when you have an organic diet
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Do you want to grow your own vegetables and fruits and wish to sell them? Well, you can definitely do so by dedicating a small piece of your garden to growing edibles. This is called a Kitchen Garden. Kitchen Gardens are also known as vegetable gardens but are smaller dedicated spaces that involve growing vegetables
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What Is Sustainable Agriculture? If you get to choose between food that’s grown in a natural manner or food that is enhanced by spraying it with pesticides or applying chemical fertilizers, what would be your pick? Most of the people would definitely go for the natural food that’s free of chemicals as well as artificial
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With the passage of time and the increase in technological advancements, there have been dramatic changes in the environment which has led to many environmental anomalies. One of which is Carbon Footprint. The average carbon footprint for a person in the United States is 16 tons, which is one of the highest rates in the
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The world’s population is expected to cross 9.7 billion people by 2050. Feeding such a huge population will be a humongous challenge. On top of it, there is a daily loss of agricultural land due to urbanization and industrial development. Recent statistics of 2015 reveal that one-third of the world’s agricultural land has been
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Did you know global agriculture is one of the major things which get affected by climate change. This blog post will look into the significant details of what associates climate change to how it makes an agricultural impact. Before starting off, let’s look into climate change. Global climate change has been one of the major
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