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Crop rotation is still popular among many of the traditional cocoa, citrus, banana and coffee farmers although within the last ten years there has been a heavy investment in " new " crops such as various ground provisions ( e. g.: yams, tubers, cassava ), seasonings and fruits.
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Crop and rotation
Crop rotation, mechanization, chemical and natural fertilizers led to a doubling of wheat yields in western Europe between 1800 to 1900.
Crop rotation is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons.
Crop rotation also mitigates the build-up of pathogens and pests that often occurs when one species is continuously cropped, and can also improve soil structure and fertility by alternating deep-rooted and shallow-rooted plants.
Crop rotation is also used to control pests and diseases that can become established in the soil over time.
Crop rotation and green manure (" cover crops ") help to provide nitrogen through legumes ( more precisely, the Fabaceae family ) which fix nitrogen from the atmosphere through symbiosis with rhizobial bacteria.
Crop rotation or crop sequencing is the practice of growing a series of dissimilar types of crops in the same space in sequential seasons for various benefits such as to avoid the build up of pathogens and pests that often occurs when one species is continuously cropped.
Crop rotation also seeks to balance the fertility demands of various crops to avoid excessive depletion of soil nutrients.
Crop rotation can also improve soil structure and fertility by alternating deep-rooted and shallow-rooted plants.
* Crop rotation: Rotating crops with ones that kill weeds by choking them out, such as hemp, Mucuna pruriens, and other crops, can be a very effective method of weed control.
Crop rotation is a consistent and economical means of controlling rootworms the following season in many corn-growing areas where rootworm beetles primarily lay eggs in corn.
Crop rotation plays an important role in replenishing soil nutrients, especially atmospheric nitrogen converted to usable forms by nitrogen-fixing plants used in fallow fields.
Crop and is
StarLink is a variety of Bt corn patented by Aventis Crop Sciences ( a subdivision of Aventis, acquired by Bayer AG in 2002 ), intended for use in animal feed.
The European Cultivated Potato Database ( ECPD ) is an online collaborative database of potato variety descriptions, updated and maintained by the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency within the framework of the European Cooperative Programme for Crop Genetic Resources Networks ( ECP / GR )— which is organised by the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute ( IPGRI ).
A cooperation between the government of Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the vault is cut into rock near Longyearbyen, keeping it at a natural and refrigerating the seeds to.
Crop is Barbados ' biggest festival, having had its early beginnings on the sugar cane plantations during the colonial period.
Crop coefficients referred to in many hydrological models are themselves the result of equations that describe predictable variation in coefficient values depending upon plant conditions that change during periods for which the model is used.
A cooperation between the government of Norway and the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the vault is cut into rock near Longyearbyen, keeping it at a natural and refrigerating the seeds to.
It was not their Intention in the least at that Time to molest their Neighbours and Fellow Christians with Collections, for it has the appearance last Fall, as if they should have a promising Crop this Harvest, but that Hope is all lost for the most part of the Grane is kill'd with the Frost, and the Rest is destroy'd by the Insects, and now they have such a heavy Debt to pay, which they are not able to discharge out of their own Pokets: So they are obliged to implore all good-minded Christians who has it in their Hearts to promote the kingdom of Christ to assist them and lay some mite for the said Building of the said Church in the Hands of their Fellow Brothers wiiich they have send for that purpose Namely Albertus Simon and Jacob Weager.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, administered by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, is a secure underground facility capable of storing millions of crop seeds.
The film is currently rated as 82 % " Certified Fresh " on Rotten Tomatoes, including 89 % positive among " Cream of the Crop ".
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Research on this topic has produced no results, and researchers from the Kerala Agricultural University and the Central Plantation Crop Research Institute, Kasaragode are still searching for a cure.
* Insect Pollination Of Cultivated Crop Plants by S. E. McGregor USDA 1972 ( needs updating but still valuable )
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