Make the most of the monsoon by growing your food. This guide covers everything from soil preparation to harvesting, helping ...

The Asian Development Bank advocates for a circular economy in Asia and the Pacific to combat environmental degradation, ...

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Ask any farmers, home gardener, or organic professionals, and they might tell you that the worst & most uncomfortable part of any gardening process is the compost’s unpleasant strong aroma. Go with ...

At the same time, Soil Organic Carbon (SOC)—which is essential for nutrient cycling, water retention, and soil life—has dropped from around 2–3 per cent to just 0.4–0.7 per cent in large ...

Degradation of soils over the past 40 years has been due to the depletion of organic matter content, resulting in decreased crop yields. To produce two tonnes of maize per acre, an uptake of nitrogen ...

On May 14 the Dairy Innovation Hub’s annual Dairy Symposium in Madison spotlighted the Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration (DSWR) initiative, an eight‑year, multi‑state study of how soil management and ...

An organic system comprising a polyculture of the type indicated above in association with green manure could progress crop farming in the region even further (Ferreira et al., 2011) as a result of ...

Let's start with the nutrient profile of livestock manure. In cattle and poultry systems, manure tends to have a low nitrogen-to-phosphorus ratio compared to what most crops need. Corn, for example, ...