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Organic Fertilization for Sustainable Agriculture

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) have a negative impact on the environment and are the primary factors causing climate change. These GHGs come in part from chemical fertilizers. To mitigate these effects, one of the solutions is organic fertilization through an agroforestry system by promoting sustainable systems. Agroforestry, which is the association of trees
Thouraya Azizi, Youssef Ammari
openaire   +1 more source

Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of plant-derived microbial soil legacy in a grafting system—a turn for the better

Microbiome
Background Plant-soil feedback arises from microbial legacies left by plants in the soil. Grafting is a common technique used to prevent yield declines in monocultures.
Tingting Wang, Yang Ruan, Qicheng Xu, Qirong Shen, Ning Ling, Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of CBM1 and linker region on enzymatic properties of a novel thermostable dimeric GH10 xylanase (Xyn10A) from filamentous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus Z5

AMB Express, 2018
Xylanase with a high thermostability will satisfy the needs of raising the temperature of hydrolysis to improve the rheology of the broth in industry of biomass conversion.
Youzhi Miao, Yanqiong Kong, Pan Li, Guangqi Li, Dongyang Liu, Qirong Shen, Ruifu Zhang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Avaliação da higroscopicidade de fertilizantes e corretivos Higroscopicity evaluation of fertilizers and agricultural liming materials

Scientia Agricola, 1992
Visando determinar a quantidade de água absorvida em função da umidade do ambiente e do tempo de exposição por alguns fertilizantes simples, misturas de fertilizantes e corretivos, foram colocadas em três ambientes de umidade relativa constante de 70,4%,
J.C. Alcarde, E. Malavolta, A.L. Borges, A.S. Muniz, C.A. Veloso, A.C. Fabrício, I. De J.M. Viegas   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Supply and demand trends for fertilizer in Zimbabwe: 1930 to date”: Key drivers and lessons learnt [PDF]

The fertilizer sector in Zimbabwe has evolved over the years in response to different policy changes based on the government’s priorities on agricultural development. The industry grew from the 1930s that targeted primarily large scale commercial farmers,
Mazvimavi, Kizito, Minde, Isaac J., Murendo, Conrad, Ndlovu, Patrick V.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Generative Artificial Intelligence Shaping the Future of Agri‐Food Innovation

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Emerging use cases of generative artificial intelligence in agri‐food innovation. ABSTRACT The recent surge in generative artificial intelligence (AI), typified by models such as GPT, diffusion models, and large vision‐language architectures, has begun to influence the agri‐food sector.
Jun‐Li Xu, Dimitrios Argyropoulos, Tamíris da Costa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predatory protists reduce bacteria wilt disease incidence in tomato plants

Nature Communications
Soil organisms are affected by the presence of predatory protists. However, it remains poorly understood how predatory protists can affect plant disease incidence and how fertilization regimes can affect these interactions.
Sai Guo, Zixuan Jiao, Zhiguang Yan, Xinyue Yan, Xuhui Deng, Wu Xiong, Chengyuan Tao, Hongjun Liu, Rong Li, Qirong Shen, George A. Kowalchuk, Stefan Geisen   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heavy Metal Contamination in Brazilian Agricultural Soils due to Application of Fertilizers

, 2014
The Brazilian grain production reaches record productivities each year and among the major crops, stand out the maize (Zea mays L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.).
A. C. Gonçalves, Herbert Nacke, D. Schwantes, G. F. Coelho   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source