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Carrots Farming Guide: All You need to Know About
With regards to carrots farming, below are the basic questions and answers on how to successfully cultivate and harvest carrots to make good profits from the produce as a carrot… Read More
All you Need to Know About Cucumber Farming Business
Cucumber, Cucumis sativus, is part of the Cucurbitaceae family and is thought to have originated in Nepal. Cucumbers are frost sensitive and are cultivated in the open or in greenhouses,… Read More
Practices that Increase the Amount of Soil Organic Matter
Active soil organic matter provides habitat and food for beneficial soil organisms that help build soil structure and porosity, provide nutrients to plants, and improve the water holding capacity of… Read More
Practices that Decrease the Amount of Soil Organic Matter
Various types of human activity decrease or increase the amount of soil organic matter contents and biological activity. However, increasing the organic matter content of soils or even maintaining good… Read More
Natural Factors Influencing the Amount of Organic Matter
The transformation and movement of materials within soil organic matter pools is a dynamic process influenced by climate, soil type, vegetation and soil organisms. All these factors operate within a… Read More
Properties of Soil Organic Matter and Crop Production
The total amount and partitioning of soil organic matter in the soil is influenced by soil properties and by the quantity of annual inputs of plant and animal residues to… Read More
Soil Organic Matter and Sources of Organic Matter
Soil organic matter (SOM) is the organic component of soil, consisting of three primary parts including small (fresh) plant residues and small living soil organisms, decomposing (active) organic matter, and… Read More
Tropical Land Use and Soil Fertility Relation
Land use is a major factor in tropical soil fertility and plant nutrition. This is because every activity carried out on the soil has either positive or negative impact on… Read More
Soil Fertility in the Tropics and Factors Affecting Tropical Soil Fertility
Soil fertility is necessary because characteristically, tropical soils have been known to be fragile due to the very high extreme weather conditions it faces. Such extremes include rainfall, sunshine and… Read More
Ten Commandments of Poultry Health
Good poultry health management is an important component of poultry production. Infectious disease causing agents will spread through a flock very quickly because of the high stocking densities of commercially housed… Read More
Sowing and Planting Practices for all Crops
Seeds and other planting materials are the basic foundation upon which successful crop production is laid. Failure in the crop production enterprise could result from errors in seed selection, seed… Read More
How to Control and Prevent Disease Outbreak on your Poultry Farms
Biosecurity practices and farm hygiene are implemented on poultry farms to reduce the risk of disease agents moving on to farms from outside sources (eg wild bird populations or from… Read More
