Farmers tend to spray twice or even thrice between each picking to combat the deadly borer and as a result pile up 60 odd doses of spray for just one crop! On average, farmers end up dousing around 1.4 kg of pesticides per hectare on brinjal, which is way higher than, say, 200 gm for paddy. This judgment deserves to be heralded as a step in the right direction: the common man would now have a wider choice of foods to meet his nutritional and dietary needs. The apex court had temporarily...

Booth contracts the pressed beet pulp in early October, and the local prices are based on corn prices. They gained about 2.7 pounds a day with one implant; then, we changed from quality to production and now, we're disappointed if we get less than 3.5 pounds of gain a day. Nevertheless, Booth said he believes the pressed beet pulp is a good additive to a feed program and stores fairly well when packed like corn silage. Peltz said he has seen some variation between the different distillers...

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Senior agro-scientists, experts and officials said, intensity of crop farming can be increased significantly, and food security can be ensured, if the relay method is applied in cultivation, reports BSS. Thrust on applying relay method to increase crop farming, ensure food security. Thrust on applying relay method to increase crop farming, ensure food security. They expressed the opinion in a daylong training course on spreading the relay method, a newly invented crop-farming pattern, for...

usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogleWhat's this? Print Email Fruit farmers hope for best, prepare for worst By ANGIE MASON For The Evening Sun Article Launched:05/30/2007 09:50:51 AM EDT Click photo to enlarge Earlier this year, warm days followed by a cold snap might have hurt some fruit crops in Adams County. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogleWhat's this? Print Email Fruit farmers hope for best, prepare for worst By ANGIE MASON For The Evening Sun Article Launched:05/30/2007 09:50:51 AM EDT Click...

Crop insurance and disaster payments from the federal government can help if damage occurs, but even then farmers say they don't totally recoup their losses. By then, a farmer has already invested in most of the growing process. Disaster aid for farmers is usually offered as a short-term program after a tropical storm drowns crops or a drought dries them up, for example, Weigle said. The federal government has tried to get out of the business of disaster payments by encouraging more...