Drought and Agriculture
Drought is considered a cyclical climatic phenomenon caused by a reduction in rainfall, which manifests itself slowly and affects people, economic activities, the environment, and can even interfere with the social and economic development of peoples. In the agricultural sector, drought refers to the marked and permanent deficit of rainfall that significantly reduces agricultural production in...
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As Harvest Harmonics is a new technology that is completely revolutionizing the way we do agriculture, many scientists have become interested in the completely new understanding of exactly how plants work and how we can make them perform their functions at their highest level all the time with this organic and sustainable solution.
Harvest Harmonics is on a mission to revitalize and...
Chili Thrips
Scirtothrips dorsalis or also known as Chilli thrips is a harmful organism listed as a quarantine pest. It is an insect with a wide spectrum of host plants (more than 150 species), including crops of commercial interest such as: beans, tomato, eggplant, cucumber, onion, pepper, peanut, soybean, strawberry, corn, citrus, cocoa, banana, fig, grape, kiwi, mango, peach, rose, pear, chrysanthemum,...
Sustainable Urban Agriculture
Sustainable urban agriculture seeks to provide safe food through the sustainable intensification of space and biodiversity, soil and water resources to obtain higher yields in the short, medium and long term.
Around 15 percent of the world’s food is now grown in urban areas. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), urban farms already supply food to about 700 million...
Which countries are regulating the use of water for agriculture?
Mars looks scary. For some people, the red planet is the object of study, some others even want to go and live there. The main requirement to make that adventure possible is not to find gold, oil, or oxygen. The major concern is finding water. This molecule has many characteristics that make it not only unique but necessary to life.
The search for enough water is one of the challenges in...
What if you had to cut your nitrogen by 50%?
Nitrogen is the main limiting nutrient after carbon, hydrogen and oxygen for photosynthetic process, phyto-hormonal, proteomic changes and growth-development of plants to complete its lifecycle. Excessive and inefficient use of N fertilizer results in enhanced crop production costs and atmospheric pollution. Atmospheric nitrogen (71%) in the molecular form is not available for plants. For the...
The Most Serious Disease For Citrus And How To Control It.
The HLB (Huanglongbing) or citrus greening is a disease spread by the Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri). It was first described in Asia in the early 1900s (USDA, 2021). Before it was identified as one disease, it became known by various names: yellow shoot (huanglungbin) in China; likubin (decline) Taiwan; dieback in India; leaf mottle in the Philippines; vein phloem degeneration in...