Agriculture

According to a Study, Restoring Tropical Peatlands Helps Birds and has no Negative Effects on Oil Palm Farmers’ Livelihoods

According to a Study, Restoring Tropical Peatlands Helps Birds and has no Negative Effects on Oil Palm Farmers’ Livelihoods

According to a recent study, oil palm may be grown on peatlands more sustainably by rewetting the area, protecting both biodiversity and local livelihoods. The…
Using Less Fertilizer to Grow Cereal Crops

Using Less Fertilizer to Grow Cereal Crops

Crops are fertilized in order to produce enough food to feed the world’s population. Fertilizers provide nutrients such as potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen to crops,…
Biodiversity is enhanced by Vanilla Cultivation on Fallow Land

Biodiversity is enhanced by Vanilla Cultivation on Fallow Land

How can biodiversity be protected while ensuring the economic viability of Madagascar’s smallholder vanilla farmers? According to a study conducted by the universities of Göttingen,…
Agricultural Biodiversity

Agricultural Biodiversity

Agricultural biodiversity is a subset of overall biodiversity that is related to agriculture. It refers to the diversity and variability of living organisms that contribute…
Bees are Promoted and Yields are Raised by Growing Beans in a Variety of Agricultural Landscapes

Bees are Promoted and Yields are Raised by Growing Beans in a Variety of Agricultural Landscapes

Pollination by insects is essential for the production of many food crops. Bees and other pollinators require adequate food supplies and nesting locations in order…
Dark Chocolate Made Using a New Cocoa Processing Technique is Fruitier and More Floral

Dark Chocolate Made Using a New Cocoa Processing Technique is Fruitier and More Floral

One of the most adored delicacies in the world, chocolate production is a multi-step process that starts with freshly harvested cocoa beans. For millennia, people…
New Ways to Preserve Rice, the World’s Most Important Grain

New Ways to Preserve Rice, the World’s Most Important Grain

Like people, plants have their own ways of coping with stress. Scientists are developing plans for how plants can reduce their own stress in order…
Early Soil-Surface Ozone Detection May Reduce Damage to Apples and Grapes

Early Soil-Surface Ozone Detection May Reduce Damage to Apples and Grapes

According to materials chemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by Trisha Andrew, farmers and fruit growers are reporting that climate change is causing…
Powdery Mildew Spreads Globally due to Migration and Trade

Powdery Mildew Spreads Globally due to Migration and Trade

Human activity has resulted in the worldwide spread of one of the most important cereal pathogens. University of Zurich researchers traced the history and spread…
A Potential Super Wheat for Salty Soils has been Developed by Scientists

A Potential Super Wheat for Salty Soils has been Developed by Scientists

A number of novel wheat cultivars have been created by scientists at the University of Gothenburg that can survive soils with greater salt concentrations. They…
After Decades of Nonstop Corn, Cover Crops are Insufficient to Improve the Soil

After Decades of Nonstop Corn, Cover Crops are Insufficient to Improve the Soil

Even though continuous corn is planted in around 20% of Illinois cropping systems, it is quite difficult to locate areas that have been this way…
Researchers Use Gene Hunting to Uncover Sorghum’s Awn Elongation Inhibition Mysteries

Researchers Use Gene Hunting to Uncover Sorghum’s Awn Elongation Inhibition Mysteries

The morphology of some grasses, including wheat, rice, barley, and sorghum, has changed as a result of domestication for human use over time. Awns, the…
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