A traditional Central American practice is to bend over the maize stalk to help dry the maize and to protect it from disease and pest damage. If you do this at just the right time, you will harvest more. Maize grains keep growing until a black spot appears at the...

Antibiotics are drugs used for killing germs. The drugs can be given by mouth or injected into the animal’s muscle or vein. These drugs go directly into the bloodstream. The blood carries the drug to the udder where it will get into the milk.

La cera de abejas puede ser también utilizada para la confección de diferentes accesorios decorativos muy llamativos dentro de los como velas y figuras. Las figuras de cera de abejas son una forma de dar uso a los excedentes de cera más vieja utilizada en las colmenas, que también permite...

Una de las principales actividades económicas que se realiza en estos países es la producción de café, que además de representar un ingreso para los hogares, es un patrimonio natural y cultural en la región. El café es uno de los productos que más aporta al Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) en...

Modern dairy plants use pure, fresh milk to make milk powder, cheese, yoghurt and other products. The processing plant can only make its products from pure milk. When water is added, the milk is diluted, or weakened, and it is not good for processing into dairy products.

En la siguiente tecnología se detalla una simple forma mediante la cual se puede dar uso a la cera de abeja de forma diferente a su habitual utilización en los apiarios, también esto permite que el apicultor pueda generar una nueva alternativa económica como fuente de ingresos, y además en...

Onions need rich, fertile soil. Only grow onions once in 3 years in the same field. Plant the onions on raised beds, especially in the rainy season. Transplant when the onions are about 6 weeks old. Plant the onions 10 centimetres apart. By taking good care of your onions, the...

In fact, onions can be stored for many months, if they are: • of a good variety, • fertilised properly, • harvested, dried, and stored the right way.

Beeswax is a natural wax produced by honey bees of the genus Apis. The worker bees produce wax to use it for comb structural stability, to form cells for honey-storage and larval and pupal comfort and protection within the bee hive. Beeswax offers the opportunity to the beekeeper to generate...

Fish is a unique source of micronutrients. However, many parts of larger fish, such as the head and the bones, are discarded during fish processing despite the high levels of nutrients, and particularly micro-nutrients found in these parts. Thus, the promotion and use of fish byproducts to create low-cost, high-quality...

Les abeilles domestiques sont sensibles à diverses maladies, dont certaines sont très contagieuses et facilement transmissibles. Il est très important que les apiculteurs soient capables de reconnaître les premiers signes de maladie dans leurs ruches et qu’ils sachent comment contenir et traiter la maladie. Cette fiche technique décrit les facteurs...

Esta guía presenta los pasos a seguir para la construcción de un práctico túnel cubierto con red para uso agrícola y las instrucciones sobre como manejar los cultivos de camote dentro del túnel para asegurar la provisión de material base de siembra de alta calidad, con baja o nula infección...

La ruche à barrettes dite Kenyane rencontre un grand succès en Afrique et devient populaire sur les autres continents. Ce modèle permet le passage de l'apiculture traditionnelle utilisant des ruches à rayons fixes à une apiculture plus sophistiquée tout en restant simple à vulgariser. En effet, elle possède l’avantage d’être...

One of the projects of The Senegalese Association for the Promotion of Organic Agriculture (ASPAB) is called ‘Domestication and improvement of tree species in the department of Thiès’. The aim of the project was to train farmers in the technical skills needed for the cultivation of orchard fruit tree species,...

This practice describes the use of hydroponic technology (soil-less plant propagation), in the form of green fodder, as an alternative method of sustainable feed production. It addresses decreased access to grazing land. This provides herders and their cooperatives with a low-cost, high quality, sustainable source of fodder which is available...

Las enfermedades de virus de las abejas se extienden por todo el mundo. Por lo general son infravaloradas por los apicultores: pueden causar graves pérdidas económicas si se asocian con otras enfermedades de las abejas. La Varroa destructor ha contribuido en gran medida a aumentar la incidencia de enfermedades virales....

Indoor housing is a convenient practice for raising livestock. If stalls are constructed in an appropriate way, they can fulfill several functions. This practice describes in detail how to construct a goat shed and a feeding trough. The feeding trough is constructed outside the stall, making it easier to clean...

Usually, there is a common practice to raise green manure as an intercrop in sugarcane and to incorporate it as mulch 45 to 50 days after sowing. The present practice, however, shows a modified method by introducing some practices based on close observations in a sugarcane production site in Tamil...

This practice focuses on facilitating the nursery germination and plantation of the “Malabar Neem” (Melia dubia), which is locally known as “Malaivembu”. The tree is found in forest plantations in India and is a fast growing tree crop with up to 20 m height. It produces greater bio-mass in a...

This practice describes how moringa plant can be propagated by air layering to promote vegetative propagation of trees and produce seedlings. Farmers nowadays might prefer propagation of moringa through air-layered cuttings rather than through seed propagation because through vegetative propagation the air layered seedlings represent the characteristics of selected mother...