(Beyond Pesticides, August 10, 2022) Cover crops added in-between rows of organic corn while they are still growing can provide a range of benefits that improve a farm’s sustainability and lowers its ...

Researchers have studied diverse techniques to enhance the water- and nitrogen-use efficiency in cropping systems. Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid have studied diverse techniques to ...

Crop spraying drones are really changing the game for farmers when it comes to protecting crops, saving water, and handling field work. You can see their value in the little things—like a drone that ...

Researchers have made significant progress in the field of artificial intelligence by applying deep learning techniques to automate the detection and classification of crop leaf diseases. The ...

Farmers in Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Uruguay are increasing crop yields and enhancing the fertility and quality of the soil in an environmentally friendly, cost-effective way – ...

Salinization – the increasing amount of salt content in soil – contributes to land degradation, desertification and subsequently food insecurity. In the Middle East, the main constraint on ...

Grafting—the deliberate joining of a scion and a rootstock—has long been employed to improve yield, disease resistance and stress tolerance in horticultural and agricultural systems. By combining ...

Although many of us are unfamiliar with the term “trap cropping,” we may have used this technique in our gardens. If you have ever planted nasturtiums near your vegetables to help lure insects away ...

Bioenergy crop production encompasses the cultivation of dedicated energy plants—annual and perennial species—designed to maximise the conversion of solar energy into harvestable biomass for heat, ...

Photographic examples of a plant disease dataset. (a) Balck rot; (b) Northern leaf blight; (c) Isariopsis leaf spot; (d) Brown spot. Researchers have made significant progress in the field of ...