Three Precise Recommendations to Improve Agricultural Soil Quality
Soils are the source of food, which sustains life on Earth. As we can see, they play a very important role in global agricultural production. For this reason, every year efforts are made to improve its quality; because a healthy soil is the crucial ally of optimal productions.
Farmland must:
1. Possess all the nutrients necessary for plant growth.
2. Provide support to keep...
The Importance of Innovation in the Agricultural Sector
Agriculture has undergone significant changes throughout history, as a result of advances in technology and current trends. These changes have motivated the development of new products and production processes, which, in turn, represent a development in the industry itself. When this happens, we are talking about an innovation in the agricultural sector.
Innovation in the...
Food Safety and its Relationship with Technology
Today, food safety is an issue that affects the entire production and logistics chain in the food industry. With globalization, food travels thousands of kilometers and can carry contagion of dangerous diseases.
However, there is an aspect that is little discussed and yet, in recent times, has been acquiring greater importance. Despite all the traceability standards,...
Agricultural Waste: What to Do with It?
Agricultural residuals
The agricultural sector is increasingly technical and industrialized, and that generates a large amount of agricultural waste. Whether it is protection materials, plastic sheets for greenhouses, plastics to cover grass, cans of phytosanitary products, oils and motor elements, water and fertilizers, etc; all of them end up being agricultural waste....
Hormones as Intermediaries in the Assembly of the Vegetable Microbiome
Both the interior and exterior of plants are populated by specific microorganisms and often selectively assembled into huge communities, called microbiota. Among these are bacteria and fungi, with neutral, beneficial or pathogenic interactions between them, forming the microbiome.
The adaptable effects of the plant microbiome can be divided into two: Improving the...
Some Catalysts in Modern Agriculture
Human beings, in their eagerness to improve crops, do research with the purpose of improving what nature already does. In the agriculture business, there is always the expectation of improving crop production in order to yield more and better food.A metabolic catalyst is a substance or technology in the acceleration of chemical, physiological or metabolic processes to...