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A new technology to aid the rehabilitation of aged cocoa farms and increase crop yield has been introduced in the Sekyere East District. It involves the extraction of fungus from the soil to provide single treatment support for the plants. The project, initiated by BISSA, an agricultural non governmental organization, would be extended to cover [...]
Cary Fowler at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in NorwayGlobal Crop Diversity Trust Executive Director Cary Fowler poses with the Svalbard “Doomsday” Seed Vault. Also, is that an ice sculpture of a polar bear?Photo: Mari Tefre/Global Crop Diversity Trust “People think I must be ‘Dr. Doom,’” Cary Fowler told the audience for the University of [...]
Through the ages, plants and animals have developed strikingly similar mechanisms for detecting microbial invasions and resisting diseases, says a new study. This revelation is a result 15 years of study by researchers from seemingly disparate fields who have used classical genetic studies to unravel the mysteries of disease resistance in plants and animals. The [...]
Farmers in Kashmir’s Pulwama district are looking forward to a high yield of saffron crop after climatic conditions have improved in the region with the Valley witnessing a good rainfall. Cultivators and agriculture experts confirmed that the rainfall in the region and the suitability of the soil of the district’s Pampore area would give a [...]
Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala said here on Thursday he will ban the commercial production of genetically modified eggplants in the country. After years of development and field testing in India, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) Eggplant, is currently being tested in Los Baños, Laguna; Santa Barbara in Iloilo; Baybay in Leyte; University of the Philippines Mindanao here; [...]
Russia is the world’s second largest producer of barley after the EU and the cereal crop is used by many farmers as animal feed. Shoppers could see the cost of the meat and poultry in their baskets rise as the price of barley has more than doubled over the past six weeks due to continued [...]
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