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Yams are considered one of the world’s most important crops. A starchy, nutrient-rich root vegetable of the genus Dioscorea, ...
Additionally, his sunflower crop will provide cooking oil and byproducts for ... and pumpkins flourish alongside sorghum planted under protective tree cover and pigeon pea plantations ready for ...
Despite decades of foreign aid and periodic debt relief, Malawi remains one of the world’s poorest with 72 percent of ...
While cover crops modestly increase soil carbon, the reduction in erosion is a separate benefit. Globally, cover crops could reduce soil carbon erosion by 25%, with a 20% reduction in the central U.S.
A field planted with cereal rye, one of the most common cover crops in Iowa. Photo by Ally Larson/Iowa State University. AMES, Iowa – Planting ground cover in fields between cash crop growing seasons ...
Cover crops after the main crop has been harvested from a field (Emily Beament/PA) A shift away from the familiar sight of bare winter fields can help improve soils and boost wildlife, a study ...
SWABI: Vegetable traders have hired underage boys for harvesting pea crops in violation of child labour laws, it was learnt here on Monday. This correspondent visited fields in different areas ...