Department of Fertilisers, under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers, convened a high-level brainstorming session at ...

Long before the advent of synthetic plant foods, farmers had only two ways to make their fields more fertile. One method was to spread manure from livestock, which proved a labor-intensive method that ...

What is a green manure? What are the advantages of using a green manure? How to make a green manure fertiliser? I answer ...

The experiment consisted of a typical high-yield cropping system, with a 150 cm wide strip of both wheat and maize in the intercropping system. For green manure treatment, hairy vetch was sown ...

Let's take a moment to talk about green manure ... Stop! Come back! It's not what you think. For one, it has nothing to do with sick cows. Rather, green manure is simply a cover crop that is tilled ...

This is my first VLog whereby I capture my thoughts of the day whilst I'm working on our small acreage doing daily tasks to stay as self-sufficient as possible. Today's task is composting down "green" ...

Fig.1 Structural equation model between soil water content (SWC), soil temperature (ST), root length (RL), canopy cover (CC), leaf stay-greenness (SG), chlorophyll content (SPAD), photosynthetic rate ...

A principal challenge of cultivating a healthy and productive vegetable garden is maintaining an adequate level of organic matter in the soil. Decomposed organic matter, humus, — not hummus, which is ...

You won't find a pile of green manure beside a farmer's barn or under a neighbor's rabbit hutch. It's not an animal product. The term refers to fresh vegetable matter that is grown to be tilled into ...

The landing page for the Yes on J website features images of densely crowded chicks, sickly birds and calves confined to small hutches. But when the ballot initiative’s authors crafted guidelines for ...